The legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will be celebrated in San Diego Monday with a series of community events held on the annual holiday.

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, San Diegans gathered at the World Beat Cultural Center in Balboa Park to honor his legacy and remember his struggles for civil rights and equality, while students at SDSU used poetry and painting to express their impressions of the activist.

His name has gained wider recognition in more recent decades, but civil rights activist and organizer Bayard Rustin has long deserved a much more respected place in the history of the Civil Rights