Assistant Secretary -Indian Affairs Co-Grand Marshall In Martin Luther King, Jr., Celebration

Media Contact: Ralph Gonzales (0) 202/219-4150
For Immediate Release: January 11, 1996

Ada E. Deer, Assistant Secretary - Indian Affairs, will serve as co-Grand Marshall in a march honoring Martin Luther King, Jr., on January 15, 1996, in Atlanta, Georgia.

The Martin Luther King, Jr., Center for Nonviolent Social Change is commemorating the twenty-eighth Annual King Week, and Dr. King's sixty-seventh birthday with a week of activities in Atlanta. The Center's activities began on January 7, 1996, and will culminate with a "National March of Celebration & Rally" at 1:00 P .M. on Monday, January 15th.

The celebration is expected to include domestic and international policy makers, educators, and religious leaders and will be locally televised.

Ms. Deer was the recipient of the Martin Luther King, Jr., award from George Washington University, Washington DC, in 1995.

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