It all began on an historic day. Yesterday marked the federal holiday to commemorate the birth and life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In Washington, DC hundreds of thousands of Americans turned out to celebrate the inauguration of President Barack Obama—our nation’s first African American President. One of those in attendance was Virginia state Senator Henry Marsh, "a major force in Virginia’s Civil Rights movement in the ‘60’s and '70s” who also served as the first African American Mayor of Richmond.