Jacksonville area events to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Here are some ways you can honor the life and legacy of civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

DUVAL COUNTY:

Many will line the streets of downtown Jacksonville for a parade to honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The 41st annual downtown parade will begin at 11 a.m.

It’ll start on Waters Street and continue to Laura Street, then Adams Street before ending at the intersection of Lee and Bay streets.

Action News Jax will stream the parade when it begins:

The Cummer Museum will have a day of reflection in honor of Dr. King from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission to the museum on MLK Day is free but they ask that you register online here.

CLAY COUNTY:

There will be a ceremony to honor Dr. King and his impact on the Green Cove Springs community from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Vera Francis Hall Park.

The keynote speaker will be Vice President of Nursing at Ascension St. Vincent’s Clay Sadie Durham. Lunch will be provided after the ceremony.

If you’re looking for an opportunity to give back in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s National Day of Service, Clay County is welcoming you to join a cleanup event happening at Hunter-Douglas Park.

The Day of Service event is happening today and if you’re volunteering, you must arrive by 9:30 a.m. at Hunter-Douglas Park, which is located at 4227 Longmire Road. The cleanup is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m.

As a volunteer, you’ll get lunch, as well as personal protective equipment and cleaning supplies. You can sign up on Clay County Sheriff’s Office website here.

MORE: Clay County organizations hosting cleanup on Monday to honor MLK National Day of Service

CAMDEN COUNTY:

There will be an annual march and program at 10 a.m. in Kingsland.

The march will begin at First African Baptist of Kingsland, Georgia, and will end at the Lions Club Park.

Dr. Martin Luther King speaks March 25, 1967 at the Chicago peace march. (AP Photo/Chick Harrity)

An undated photo of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (AP Photo)

An undated picture of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthplace, 501 Auburn Avenue N.E., Atlanta, Ga. Dr. King was born here, January 15, 1929. (AP Photo)

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. accompanied by Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy is booked by city police Lt. D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Ala., on Feb. 23, 1956. The civil rights leaders are arrested on indictments turned by the Grand Jury in the bus boycott

Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bayard Rustin, leaders in the racial bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala., leave the Montgomery County Courthouse on Feb. 24, 1956.

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Montgomery, Ala., reads the telegram sent to U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower by the Southern Negro Leaders Conference at a meeting in New Orleans, La., Feb. 14, 1957.

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., of Montgomery, Alabama speaks at a mass demonstration before the Lincoln Memorial in Washington as civil rights leaders called on the government to put more teeth in the Supreme Court's desegregation decisions, May 17,

Dr. Emil A. Naclerio, member of the surgical team that operated on the Rev. Martin Luther King, at King�s bedside in Harlem Hospital in New York on Sept. 21, 1958. Rev. King, stabbed by an African American woman as he appeared at a Harlem Department

merican civil rights leader Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his wife Coretta, both wearing garlands, are received by admirers after landing at the airport in New Delhi, India, Feb. 10, 1959.

Martin Luther King speaks in Atlanta in 1960.

Martin Luther King, Jr. talks to a packed church gathering about his "mysterious release" from jail and a later three hour long conference with city officials in an effort the ease the local racial problems, July 13, 1962, Albany, Ga.

During months of local anti-segregation campaigns led by the SCLC in Albany, Georgia, Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is arrested by Albany's Chief of Police, Laurie Pritchett, after praying at City Hall, on July 27, 1962.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., attends a news conference in Birmingham, Ala. May 9, 1963.

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, right, and Roy Wilkins of the NAACP, are seen, Aug. 1963.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. acknowledges the crowd at the Lincoln Memorial for his "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington, D.C. Aug. 28, 1963. The Washington Monument is in background.

In this Aug. 28, 1963 photo Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, addresses marchers during his "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington.

Martin Luther King, speaking before thousands who had marched on the Frankfort capitol building of Kentucky March 5, 1964, refuted the fallacies that moderation and patience are the best approach for the African American in his struggle for equality.

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is accompanied by his wife, Coretta Scott King, as he appears at a press conference on the occasion of the release of his book "Why We Can't Wait," in New York , on June 8, 1964

Rev. Martin Luther King addresses a crowd estimated at 70,000 at a civil rights rally in Chicago's Soldier Fielld June 21, 1964. King told the rally that congressional approval of civil rights legislation heralds The dawn of a new hope for the Negro.

Dr. Martin Luther King, left, heads a column of about 200 African Americans in a four-block march to the courthouse spearheading a voter registration drive in Montgomery, Alabama on Feb. 9, 1965. State capitol building in right background.

Rev. Martin Luther King with his wife Coretta participate in march from Montgomery, Ga., to the state capitol on March 19, 1965.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and his wife, Coretta Scott King, lead off the final lap to the state capitol at Montgomery, Ala., on March 25, 1965. Thousands of civil rights marchers joined in the walk, which began in Selma, Ala., on March 21.

Rev. Martin Luther King, integration leader, addresses a crowd on a street in Lakeview, New York May 12, 1965. The Nobel Prize winner arrived in the day from Atlanta, Ga., for a whirlwind tour of Nassau County to advance the cause of African

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is seen at a press conference in 1966

Martin Luther King attacks slum conditions at an apartment building in Chicago Feb. 23, 1966. Al Raby, King and several Catholic priests use shovels to clean up wheelbarrows of trash and ashes from the basement from stair steps.

Martin Luther King (center, others unidentified) awaiting chance to speak at the Chicago peace march March 25, 1967.

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. speaks in Selma, Ala., in February 1968.

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. stands with other civil rights leaders on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn. April 3, 1968, a day before he was assassinated at approximately the same place. (L-R Williams, Jesse Jackson, Ralph Abernathy.

Civil rights leader Rev. Ralph Abernathy, second from left, discusses the second day of the Poor People's Campaign in Washington from the steps of the Capitol, April 30, 1968. With him are A.D. King, left, brother of the late Dr. Martin Luther King,