Children at one of the Island's primary schools took to the streets yesterday in memory of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

America and the world will commemorate Dr. King one of the main leaders in that countries civil rights movement next Monday, January 21.

An activist and Baptist minister by training, Dr. King led the Montgomery Bus Boycott and eventually organised the 1963 March on Washington where he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.

To celebrate this event and King's life the 128 students of the Dalton E. Tucker Primary school, formerly Southampton Glebe Primary, reconstructed the event.

Yesterday, Gladstone Thompson, principal of Dalton E. Tucker Primary, said it was an experience that could bring to life what they were learning.

He said: "I had worked at the middle school level with a colleague who always liked to bring to life what she was teaching with her children and one of the things was famous people of the 1960s.

"One of those was Dr. Martin Luther King. So when I began I thought the walk was such a wonderful experience and the staff support it. Now it has become on of our yearly events." Leading up to yesterday, the children aged between five and ten, made signs in class with images and statements from Dr. King.

At 8.45 yesterday morning, teachers, students and some parents gathered at the Maxi Mart grocery store on Hog Bay Level Sandys.

Holding their signs, the students sang and walked the one kilometer to their assembly hall, where they were able to hear the speech given by Dr. King 45 years ago.

Juliette Darrell, mother of Zaarion, 6, who marched yesterday, said her son had a lot of fun, but that it also taught him an important lesson.

She said: "It helped teach him that Dr. King was a civil-rights leader and what that meant.He guessed when I told him about it, it was going to be boring

."But he had fun. He understands now that black people couldn't sit in the front of the class and the had to sit in the back. He walked with a white friend of his yesterday, but before they couldn't have played together.

"When I asked him what things are different today he said the difference is that everybody is together."