Yahoo! News - Church Services Set to Mark King Birthday
The daylong celebration of King's birthday were to include memorials, church services and volunteer projects around the country. Organizers of holiday events have long emphasized the importance of community service in their annual King Day theme of "Remember! Celebrate! Act! A Day On... Not a Day off."

On King's birthday Thursday, about 800 protesters rallied against Bush's visit to the tomb on what would have been King's 75th birthday.

Beating drums and chanting, "Peace, not war; that's what Martin stood for!" and "Bush, go home!," many of the protesters said Bush's policies on the Iraq war, affirmative action and social service funding directly contradicted King's legacy.

The anti-war message was to be prominent again on Monday.

King's widow, who urged world leaders to avoid an impending war in Iraq during her remarks at last year's service, said she would address the issue again. Coretta Scott King has continued to speak out in opposition to the war, promoting her late husband's principles of nonviolence.