On Janaury 17, 2011, America will honor Dr.Martin Luther, King, Jr.'s service to our country and his dream of a community based on social justice and non-violence.

Your club can honor Dr. King by acting on his call to create a beloved community by serving others. Celebrate Dr. King's birthday with the Learn, Celebrate, Act project. Or, your club can implement one of the related projects found below. For more project ideas, check out the Kids Care Clubs Project Index and Caring Collection Projects.

Through Kids Care Clubs Learn, Celebrate, Act, your club will be learn about Dr. King and the Civil Rights Movement, celebrate and honor Dr. King and act by implementing a service project.

Project Goals:

LEARN, CELEBRATE, ACT!

• To learn about the Civil Rights movement and the role of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• To celebrate Dr. King's birthday -- Dr. King was born on January 15, 1929
• To act by serving others.

See the Kids Care Clubs Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. project or the project ideas below.

"Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love".
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Learn, Celebrate, Act Project Ideas

Materials Needed:

Materials Needed will depend on your selected project.

Steps Involved:

Learn

Decide how you will implement the three goals of this project. To learn about the Civil Rights Movement and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. check out the project components to the right of this page. Also check out the projects in Kids Care Clubs Honoring Dr. Martin Luther, King, Jr.

Celebrate

At your club meeting you can hold a birthday celebration in honor of Dr.King, learn about the Civil Rights Movement and his role, and plan or implement a project. Check out Party Pals Celebrate with a Cause or Party Pals Bring the Party Your club can adapt these projects to Dr. King's birthday.

Act

In addition to project ideas found in Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. your club could do the following:

Walk and Serve

Walking and marching was a key strategy in securing civil rights. In 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white person on a Montgomery, Alabama bus. In protest, the black people of Montgomery walked for over a year instead of riding the bus.

In Selma and Birmingham adults and children walked and marched to demand their civil rights. Children as well as adults were arrested. At one point 600 children were in jail in Birmingham; the youngest child arrested was six years old.

After the election of President Barack Obama, the following words were heard in the media:

"Rosa sat,
so Martin could walk,
so Obama could rise,
so our children could fly!"*

Your club can honor Dr. King and all the people who walked for equality and justice by a symbolic walk followed by a service project.

You can walk in your school, around your school or in your neighborhood. You can make signs with quotes from Dr. King or slogans of peace. See 31 Days of Peace, Kindness and Justice quotes.

*Slaves referred to "flying" as securing freedom in the North.