A long, nonstop line between the march in Selma in 1965 and the inauguration in Washington in 2009

Senator Barack Obama speaks in remembrance of Martin Luther King, Jr.
-Photo by Charles Rex Arbogast/Associated Press

Speaking today at the annual Rainbow/PUSH Coalition Martin Luther King Jr. scholarship breakfast in Chicago, Barack Obama evoked the memory and the social activism of Martin Luther King, Jr.:
''As I recall, Dr. King wasn't hanging out in Manhattan, Dr. King wasn't hanging out in Beverly Hills."

Introducing Obama, the Rev. Jesse Jackson told a crowd at the annual King scholarship breakfast, ''it's a long, nonstop line between the march in Selma in 1965 and the inauguration in Washington in 2009.''