Thirty-three years have now passed since the Brandywine Peace Community's first observance of Dr. King's birthday, years before it became a national holiday. Rev. Walter Fauntroy, a close associate of Dr. King, commenting on Dr. King's murder, April 4, 1968, and the establishment of the King Day holiday, once said: "its easier to build a monument, than it is a movement." 

The Brandywine Peace Community observed the birth of Dr. King all these years as part of a campaign of nonviolent resistance to war-making - first, for twenty years at General Electric, and now, for more than a decade, at Lockheed Martin - to enact a memorial to the man and the struggle for justice and peace and, moreover, to continue building a movement of nonviolent action for peace. And the struggle goes on..........more