Ministers To Honor Dr. King

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the black civil rights leader assassinated on April 4, 1968, will be remembered here in a variety of ways, on a variety of days.

Most schools will close on Monday, officially Martin Luther King Jr. Day, as will banks and government and post offices. Two churches will hold special services, both at 2 p.m., both featuring guest speakers from New York City.

The Calvary Baptist Church of East Hampton has invited the Rev. Raphael Gamaliel Warnock, the assistant minister of New York's Abyssinian Baptist Church, as its guest speaker for the event, a benefit for the church's scholarship fund.

Keep A Dream Alive

Mr. Warnock, who earned a master's degree in divinity from the Union Theological Seminary, has authored, among other writings, "Educating Teens For Positive Peer Intervention," a public school guide aimed at lowering Georgia's teenage pregnancy rate.

Former Georgia Gov. Joseph F. Harris appointed Mr. Warnock to the Southern Regional Task Force on Infant Mortality, which represented 17 southern states. He was the committee's youngest member.

The Rev. Charles E. Hopson, the pastor, has invited the community to attend the event and keep Dr. King's "dream for America alive right here in East Hampton."

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At the First Baptist Church of Bridgehampton, also Monday at 2 p.m., the Rev. Melvin E. Wilson, from St. Luke's A.M.E. Church in Harlem, will speak. The St. Luke's choir will sing, and the community has been invited.

Also on Monday, at 8 a.m., the First Baptist Church of Riverhead will hold its 13th annual Martin Luther King Day celebration at the Radisson Hotel near the Long Island Expressway's exit 58. Among the honorees will be Lucius Ware of Southampton, the president of the Eastern Long Island Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Mr. Ware recalled that Dr. King was the pastor in Montgomery, Ala., in the early 1960s, when the N.A.A.C.P. was specifically outlawed in several southern states. Because "there was a need for such an organization," Mr. Ware said, several ministers, including Dr. King, created the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

Since its formation in 1910, the N.A.A.C.P. has advocated for nonviolent protest to racial discrimination. On Sunday, Bob Zellner of Southampton, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's first white southern field secretary in the 1960s, will address the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the South Fork at the Water Mill Community Center at 10:30 a.m.

Mr. Zellner will talk about the four little girls killed in the bombing of the 16th Avenue Baptist Church of Birmingham, Ala., in 1963, drawing lessons from the nation's violent past and suggesting paths toward racial harmony.

At The Lighthouse

In Montauk, also on Sunday, the Montauk Point Lighthouse and Museum will present a special program from 2 to 4 p.m. It will include a historical presentation on the Amistad by Hugh King, East Hampton's town crier. Carrie Gilbert, a member of the education committee of the Eastern Long Island N.A.C.C.P., will read poetry, and Mr. Hopson, of East Hampton's Calvary Baptist Church, will direct a musical program.

A photo exhibit featuring black troops, called buffalo soldiers, who fought during the Spanish American War, will be on view.

Admission to the lighthouse will be free during the program, though visitors will not be admitted to the tower during that time.

Rev. Butts At College

Southampton College will honor Dr. King on Feb. 5, when it kicks off its celebration of African American History Month with a keynote address by the Rev. Calvin O. Butts 3d of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church at 7 p.m.

Dr. Butts, a longtime prominent civil rights leader, has been an outspoken critic of negative rap lyrics, drug abuse, and exploitative liquor and cigarette advertising. A board member of the United Way, Dr. Butts holds degrees from Morehouse College, Union Theological Seminary, and Drew University.

The Feb. 5 evening will also feature gospel music by a group called Leon's Inner Voices and the announcement of the winner of a student essay contest now under way, supervised by John Strong, a social science professor, on the topic, "Is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dead, and What Is His Legacy in Post Civil-Rights America, and Abroad?"

Exceptional Journey

The public has been invited to the free event, in the college's Fine Arts Theater. A reception will follow the program, which has been planned by the college committee for campus diversity.

"We want to celebrate the exceptional journey of a man whose innate creative genius is still available to us," said Dr. M. Anthony Fitchue, the college's director of multicultural programs. "Dr. King led people from all walks of life against the violence of human injustice and poverty."

The college plans three more programs for Black History Month, on Feb. 19, 23, and 26.