Martin Luther King Jr Day on Monday will come with commemorations in Hamilton to mark the example of the late civil rights leader, who was assassinated in 1968.

The salute to Dr King at St Paul AME Church Hall on Victoria Street starts at noon under the theme “Always learning”.

Activist Glenn Fubler, of the community group Imagine Bermuda, said presentations were expected from Alexa Lightbourne, the Minister of Home Affairs, and Reverend Nicholas Tweed, of St Paul AME Church.

Students of the Bermuda Institute will perform, Mr Fubler added.

At a press briefing today — the date of Dr King’s birthday in 1929 — Mr Fubler said: “When he died, Martin Luther King left a legacy that impacted the whole world.

“He emerged beyond that calling for a revolution of values throughout not only this country, but globally.”

Mr Fubler said the commemoration would come with references to Bermuda’s own civil rights campaigns.

It will include a salute to the late Edwin Skinner who, upon retirement in the mid-1940s, operated a school for teenagers of all races as a time when segregation prevailed in Bermuda.

Mr Fubler said many people benefited from attending the school, which became the Howard Academy, including former premier Sir John Swan, the late trade union stalwart Ottiwell Simmons and the late Roosevelt Brown.

Saleem Talbot, the imam of the Bermuda Islamic Cultural Centre at Harrington Sound, spoke of Dr King’s role as a champion of civil rights, saying he “put his faith into practice”.

He added: “That’s what we try to do here in Bermuda.

“We reach out to all of the faiths to come together to try to work together and try to create harmony among all the peoples of this country.”

On Monday, Mr Talbot said, he would be happy to join in and “bring that message of peace”.