Bethune Club Holding Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Celebration, Apr 17th

The Mary McLeod Bethune Club is holding New Britain’s annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Celebration this Saturday, April 17, 2021.

The Guest Speaker for the 53rd Anniversary Memorial Celebration will be Dr. Valerie Ruby Ingram.

The theme for this year’s event is, “We grow as one and we rise as one.”

At the event, there is also to be a presentation on the New and Repaired Bricks Initiative.

The Memorial Celebration, this April 17, 2021, will be held at 12:00pm. The city will provide light refreshments at 11:30pm.

The Ceremony is to be held at the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Monument at the corner of Stanley Street and Smalley Street.

New Britain traditionally celebrates the life and work of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in ceremonies on two days each year. The community celebrates Martin Luther King Day each January, with most of the rest of the nation.

The New Britain community also annually celebrates the Rev. Dr. King and the continuing work of the Civil Rights Movement each April, commemorating his assassination on April 4, 1968.

At the time of his assassination, Dr. King was in the middle of organizing the Poor People’s Campaign, proposing a progressive set of reforms that would have guaranteed for everyone in the nation decent paying jobs, guaranteed minimum incomes, decent housing, quality education, participatory democracy and universal health care.