Celebrating the birthday of a civil rights icon

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Columbia, SC (WOLO) — Today civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would have been celebrating his 90-th birthday.

Dr.  King’s birthday will actually be observed next week, Monday January 21st for King Day at the Dome. The event will begin with a prayer service before a march and rally at the State House. That event will start at 10 in the morning and end at one p-m. It will conclude with a wreath laying ceremony at the historic marker in Five Points at 3 p-m.