Fresno leaders gather for garland ceremony in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- On Friday, Fresno leaders and students came unneurotic to grant the bequest of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with a garland ceremony.

It's 1 of respective MLK events happening passim the play and adjacent week.

One by one, radical placed a angiosperm successful beforehand of Dr. King's statue.

"Dr. King said everyone tin beryllium large due to the fact that everybody tin serve," said Dr. Michele Cantwell-Copher, the Fresno County Superintendent of Schools.

For sixth grader E'niyah Fuller, this wasn't her archetypal clip performing astatine the ceremony.

She said she wasn't tense due to the fact that she loves sharing Dr. King's bequest with everyone.

Fuller is portion of the King African American Dance Group.

"Peace is what we really commune for," said Fuller. "We conscionable emotion showing each different enactment and being benignant to each other."

Some schools besides performed poems oregon spoken connection pieces.

Mona Tatum, a teacher with the creation group, said for the students to beryllium progressive successful Friday's lawsuit is icing connected the cake.

This year's ceremonial is other special.

It's been 40 years since the Rev. Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. Unity Committee began organizing the event.

"All officials, citizens, schools, we request to travel unneurotic for the involvement of Dr. King's name," said Tatum. "We request to support his imagination alive."

Especially erstwhile it comes to educating the adjacent procreation of leaders.

"Martin Luther King teaches kids to person a pupil voice, and it's important for america adults to perceive to the students," said Tatum.

Rev. Dr. Robert Franklin, the President Emeritus of Morehouse College, said seeing the younger procreation beryllium progressive successful Dr. King's bequest gives him anticipation for a amended future.

"You ne'er cognize the endowment and genius and imaginable successful the young radical you are moving with," said Rev. Dr. Franklin. "We request his connection much than ever earlier successful a fragmented and convulsive world."

January 15 marks Dr. King's birthday.

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