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Photos of Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service in Philadelphia

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Tens of thousands of volunteers gathered for the day's 28th year.

At left is Hollie Rudolph along side Richard Tchen clearing the pool at the Marian Anderson Recreation Center at 740 S 17th St, Philadelphia of leaves. They volunteered to help clean and revitalize the recreation center on the 28th Annual Martin Luther King Day of Service, Monday, January 16, 2023.
At left is Hollie Rudolph along side Richard Tchen clearing the pool at the Marian Anderson Recreation Center at 740 S 17th St, Philadelphia of leaves. They volunteered to help clean and revitalize the recreation center on the 28th Annual Martin Luther King Day of Service, Monday, January 16, 2023.Read moreAlejandro A. Alvarez / Staff Photographer

The Marian Anderson Recreation Center was one of the hundreds of community hubs where tens of thousands of volunteers gathered Monday for the 28th annual Greater Philadelphia King Day of Service.

The day’s signature event was held at Girard College in North Philadelphia, where King in 1965 joined NAACP leader Cecil B. Moore and spoke to a massive crowd protesting for the school to be desegregated.

The theme this year was gun-violence prevention, and hundreds of volunteers assembled “antiviolence kits” that included gun locks and the phone numbers of resource groups.

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