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LIFESTYLES/The Charlotte Post
JANUARY 18, 1996
MLK holiday impresses some young people
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Martin Luther King Jr.
holiday meant more to
Damien and Justin Perkins
than a day off from classes at
Thomas Worthington High
School in Ohio.
For the two brothers attend
ing a celebration at
Worthington United
Methodist Church Monday, it
brought home the fact that
they could attend the upper-
middle class school near
Columbus after all.
“We can see the effects now,"
said Damien, who at 18, was
born after King was assassi
nated in 1968.
Added 14-year-old Justin:
“Everyone can go to the same
schools. There's probably still
discrimination, but I don't see
that much of it myself"
King's dream was that all
young blacks would some day
feel as Justin does, and all
across the state government
offices and schools were closed
to allow Ohioans time to com
memorate King's message of
nonviolence and racial equali
ty.
In Athens, in southeast
Ohio, residents remembered
by refurbishing the Mount
Zion Baptist Church.
Volunteers stripped and
revarnished the floors and
pews and laid new carpeting
in the 92-year-old church.
King visited Ohio University
in December 1959 as a partici
pant in a student ecumenical
church conference. Although
he did not preach at Mount
Zion during his visit, project
coordinator Nick Zefran said
King visited many church
members.
On Sunday, civil rights
activist Rev. A1 Sharpton
urged nearly 1,100 people
gathered at the New
Friendship Baptist Church in
Cincinnati to continue King's
work.
“Many of us will forget it's a
holiday we had to fight for,"
said Sharpton, president of
the Rainbow Coahtion of New
York. “The least we can do is
teach our children what Dr.
King is about.
“He shut down bus stations
and changed the way of the
South."
Virgil Watkins, 52, partici
pated in civil rights demon
strations while he was a stu
dent at Fisk University in
Nashville from 1966 to 1970.
Watkins, a resident at the
Cherry Street Mission in
Toledo, said he believes that
although segregation has been
outlawed and open contempt
for minorities is rare in most
places, racism has taken new
forms.
“When I was a kid in the
'60s, I knew I couldn't go out
to Grosse Pointe," he said,
referring to the affluent sub
urb of Detroit. “But now, you
feel it more than you see it."
But Liz Pierson, chair
woman of Toledo
Neighborhood Block Watch,
said blacks are better able to
challenge discrimination
because of King's courage.
“He made it clear that there
is an answer," she said. “And
that we should go and find it."
"Many of us will forget it's a
holiday we had to fight
for...The least we can do is
teach our children what Dr.
King is about."
-Al Sharpton, president of the Rainbow
Coalition of New York.
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