Jacob (age 6)

Six year old Kennedy from Columbia MD holding a sign she crafted herself (she was named after the 35th president). Here standing at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial.

Thousands paid their respects to Dr. King at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, which was dedicated in 2011, becoming the first memorial on the National Mall dedicated to an individual who wasn't a former president.

Joseph Lowery is a minister in the United Methodist Church participated in most of the major activities of the African-American Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. He became the third president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, after Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and his immediate successor, Rev. Dr. Ralph David Abernathy.

Sirrah Fulton of Baltimore MD is 3 years old.

Jusrin (age 11) from Upper Marlboro MD

Dejana (age 12) from Washington D.C.

A.J. Johnson from New York City

Taomi Ray of Gadsden Alabama is from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is an African-American civil rights organization. SCLC was closely associated with its first president, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The SCLC had a large role in the American Civil Rights Movement.

Michelle Jones of Alexandria VA blocks out the sun as she waits on Independence Ave. for the march to the Washington Monument. She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority, a sisterhood of more than 300,000 predominantly black college-educated women, the sorority currently has over 1,000 chapters located in the United States, England, Japan (Tokyo and Okinawa), Germany, the Virgin Islands, Bermuda, the Bahamas and the Republic of Korea.

T.J. Wilkerson of Montgomery Texas

Holding an Obama flag is Claudia Hanes of Bowling Green KY. She is a retired teacher and a member of the National Education Association (NEA)

T.J. Wilkerson of Montgomery Texas

Charles Arterson is an x-ray technologist at The Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore MD) and a patient safety advocate who recently invented the new Zapp Shield System.

Bob Write from Pittsburgh PA is a member of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity,a collegiate Greek-letter fraternity with a predominantly African-American membership.

Sirahn Fulton of Baltimore MD is 3 years old.

Holding an Obama flag is Claudia Hanes of Bowling Green KY. She is a retired teacher and a member of the National Education Association (NEA)

Holding an Obama flag is Claudia Hanes of Bowling Green KY. She is a retired teacher and a member of the National Education Association (NEA)

Holding an Obama flag is Claudia Hanes of Bowling Green KY. She is a retired teacher and a member of the National Education Association (NEA)