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King's legacy evoked in Detroit march DETROIT, MI (Michigan Radio) - Reverend Jesse Jackson and UAW President Bob King held another rally invoking Dr. Martin Luther King's legacy on Saturday.

Jackson and King staged what they called a "Jobs, Justice, and Peace" march.

They're hoping to galvanize a national movement to redirect the country's defense budget into cities, infrastructure, and industry. It includes an October march on Washington.

Jackson says they chose to kick off the campaign in Detroit because it's the epicenter of the country's economic crisis. "We have a devastating crisis in Detroit," Jackson says. "200,000 people without jobs. That's a crisis, but it's also an opportunity to build, to-rebuild."

The march also commemorated the June 1963 "Walk to Freedom" in Detroit. That's where King, accompanied by then-UAW President Walter Reuther, first gave a version of the "I Have a Dream" speech.
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