Daily News | Philadelphia MLK Association for Nonviolence resumes King Day Luncheon after pandemic pause
The sounds of bell ringing could be heard around the country in honor of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. at noon on Monday.
Joye Nottage, executive director of the Philadelphia Martin Luther King Jr., Association for Nonviolence,to incorporate the Liberty Bell into ceremonies by a paragraph in her husband’s speech at the 1963 March on Washington, in which he proclaimed that the United States should “let freedom ring.”Samuel Pierce, then Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development was the first person to tap the Liberty Bell for the King Day holiday in 1987. Rosa Parks was the second in 1988.
Following the bell-ringing ceremony, the Philadelphia Martin Luther King Jr. Association for Nonviolence resumed its annual King Day Awards and Benefit Luncheon at the Sheraton Downtown Philadelphia Hotel.
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