Occupy Group to March to Martin Luther King Jr.'s Atlanta Grave

Walk marks anniversary of Rosa Parks’s refusal to give up seat on bus

A group of 15 to 25 protesters from an Occupy Washington encampment is planning to march from the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall to his grave in Atlanta.

Kevin Zeese, an organizer of the occupation at Washington's Freedom Plaza, said the group will begin its march Thursday. Some participants previously walked from the Wall Street occupation in New York.

Thursday's walk marks the anniversary of Rosa Parks's refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus in 1955. That protest was followed by the yearlong Montgomery bus boycott during the civil rights movement.

The long fight for civil rights shows “how long these things take,” Zeese said.

Participants also are planning a national occupation of Washington beginning at the end of March.

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