observance will have a heavy South Korean presence.
The parade is set to begin at 11 a.m. at Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Western Avenue in South Los Angeles, head west on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard to Crenshaw Boulevard, then south to Vernon Avenue, concluding at Leimert Park, where a festival will be held.
The parade will include 30 marching groups, 20 floats, 17 drill teams, 16 marching bands, seven color guard teams, three dance groups, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department equestrian unit and the Los Angeles Police Department motorcycle drill team, according to founder Larry E. Grant.
The floats will include the “Occupy King’s Dream” float, honoring King’s attempts to end poverty and “fight against a system that created inequality,” said Marqueece Harris-Dawson, president and chief executive officer of the Community Coalition, one of the float’s organizers.
The “Get Onboard Donate Life” float will attempt to inspire organ and tissue donation in Los Angeles’ black and multicultural communities.
An ethnically group of waiting list candidates, transplant recipients, living donors and donor family members are set to be aboard the double-decker bus.
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