Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Parade, 1/19/2019, In Orlando, FL
Dear Friends & Neighbors,
Martin Luther King Jr. (presented at: WindermereSun.com)
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Don’t forget that the 2019 Downtown Orlando MLK (Martin Luther King) Parade will take place on Saturday, January 19, 2019, between 10:00 am to noon (EST), along the North Orange Avenue to Central Avenue towards Lake Eola, from Downtown Orlando Courthouse to Lake Eola Park, 425 North Orange Avenue, Orlando, FL 32801, with this year’s theme, “King’s Vision: Humanity tied in a Single Garment of Destiny.”
Check out the Martin Luther King Parade in 2018, in the video “2018 Martin Luther King Jr. Downtown Holiday Parade“, below:
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Below, is the letter of invitation from Southwest Orlando Jaycees, in bold italics:
To The Central Florida Community:
The Southwest Orlando Jaycees cordially invites you to participate in the 35th Annual Downtown Orlando Martin Luther King, Jr. Parade on Saturday, January 19, 2019 at 10:00AM. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was an integral part of the Civil Rights Movement which laid the foundation for the equality of treatment and opportunity enjoyed in America and around the world today. The theme for the 2019 parade celebration is “King’s Vision: Humanity tied in a Single Garment of Destiny”.
In remembrance of Dr. King’s life and legacy we are soliciting a record number of participants for the Holiday Parade. This year we expect an estimated 8,000 spectators at the parade. We are hopeful that the 2019 parade and celebration will remind our attendees “the most precious gifts in life––like children and love and time––must never be taken for granted.”
Participating in the event is not only fun but it also provides you with an excellent way to market your organization or business while celebrating a remarkable legacy of courage and unity in our community. We are asking all participants to embrace this year’s theme in their submissions. Because we all enjoy an eventful parade we are encouraging decorative floats and discouraging a traditional motorcade for this year’s parade.
Parade Entry Deadline: Tuesday, January 15, 2019
On behalf of the Southwest Orlando Jaycees Parade Committee, we look forward to receiving your 2019 parade registration and thank you for your interest and participation. The registration fee is $100 for all single-entry units and $25 for every additional motorized vehicle included in the entry {this does not apply to car/motorcycle clubs}.
Register at: https://2019orlandomlkparade.eventbrite.com or Mail your registration to the following: SW Orlando Jaycees, P.O. Box 585601, Orlando, FL 32858
If you have any questions regarding this event please contact us via email at swojuniorchamber@gmail.com. Thanks in advance for your support and we look forward to working with you.
Sincerely,
Alger M. Studstill, Jr., MBA
President, Southwest Orlando Jaycees
Chair, Downtown Orlando MLK Parade Committee
Southwest Orlando Junior Chamber’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/SWOJaycees/
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To better understand who Martin Luther King Jr. was, please refer to the text in wikipedia, in italics, below:
Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1954 until his death in 1968. Born in Atlanta, King is best known for advancing civil rights through nonviolence and civil disobedience, tactics his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi helped inspire.
King led the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and in 1957 became the first president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). With the SCLC, he led an unsuccessful 1962 struggle against segregation in Albany, Georgia, and helped organize the nonviolent 1963 protests in Birmingham, Alabama. He also helped organize the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech.
On October 14, 1964, King won the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolent resistance. In 1965, he helped organize the Selma to Montgomery marches. The following year, he and the SCLC took the movement north to Chicago to work on segregated housing. In his final years, he expanded his focus to include opposition towards poverty and the Vietnam War. He alienated many of his liberal allies with a 1967 speech titled “Beyond Vietnam“. J. Edgar Hoover considered him a radical and made him an object of the FBI’s COINTELPRO from 1963 on. FBI agents investigated him for possible communist ties, recorded his extramarital liaisons and reported on them to government officials, and on one occasion mailed King a threatening anonymous letter, which he interpreted as an attempt to make him commit suicide.
In 1968, King was planning a national occupation of Washington, D.C., to be called the Poor People’s Campaign, when he was assassinated on April 4 in Memphis, Tennessee. His death was followed by riots in many U.S. cities. Allegations that James Earl Ray, the man convicted and imprisoned of killing King, had been framed or acted in concert with government agents persisted for decades after the shooting. Sentenced to 99 years in prison for King’s murder, effectively a life sentence as Ray was 41 at the time of conviction, Ray served 29 years of his sentence and died from hepatitis in 1998 while in prison.
King was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. Martin Luther King Jr. Day was established as a holiday in numerous cities and states beginning in 1971; the holiday was enacted at the federal level by legislation signed by President Ronald Reagan in 1986. Hundreds of streets in the U.S. have been renamed in his honor, and a county in Washington State was also rededicated for him. The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was dedicated in 2011.
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