Augusta families celebrate traditions at annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – Augusta kicked off the weekend by celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day with a parade on Saturday.

The vacation, which takes place the third Monday in January, entails a day of service, training religion or dwelling your life like Martin Luther King Jr. would.

Tons of lined the streets on Saturday to see the parade. It’s a convention for a lot of and it’s all to help the message that Dr. King spent his whole life attempting to unfold.

“I used to be alleged to be working, however I took the additional time off immediately so I may come to the parade,” Sadie McCoy stated.

All the parade necessities have been out on Saturday, together with marching bands, dancers and sweet.

“We’ve been coming to this parade for over 40 years,” Latrina Jenkins stated. “We’ve all the time stood on the nook of Pine Road.”

It’s at that nook the place the custom continues.

“My grandmother used to convey us right here and inform us all about Martin Luther King and what he believed in,” Jenkins stated.

It’s the identical lesson being handed right down to a brand new era.

“We have now youngsters following in our footsteps and we simply need them to recollect and know what he has executed for our generations to come back,” Elisehia Nesbitt stated.

The celebrations for the parade goers goes past the music and floats.

“The vacation means a day on as a substitute of a time off acts of service working in our group,” Nesbitt stated.

It’s the custom holding this crowd collectively.

“I need to hold our household collectively and ensure that though we separate and go our personal separate methods as adults that we nonetheless come again collectively and rejoice one thing that’s necessary to us in our household,” Jenkins stated.

Households coming collectively proper again the place it began.

“We all know to point out up proper right here on Pine Road yearly,” Jenkins stated.

The celebrations proceed on Monday with numerous days of service hosted all through town.

On Monday, Mayor Garnett Johnson, members of his workers, and the Augusta chapter of the UGA Alumni Affiliation will function volunteers on the annual Martin Luther King, Jr., vacation.

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