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Thursday, January 11,2007
MLK events
include street
dedication
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American community and make all citizens of Charlotte more
aware and conscience of Martin Luther King and everjdhing he
stood for.
Other celebrations will be held across the city. Beginning
Saturday at 11 a.m., the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday
Parade will start at Mint and Second streets and end at
Marshall Park. The parade will feature local and regional high
school and university marching bands, steppers, social and com
munity service organizations as well as many political, religious
and community leaders. On Sunday at 6 p.m. a community
worship service will be held at Hickory Grove Baptist Church’s
main campus at 6050 Hickory Grove Road. The event is a col
laboration between Hickory Grove Baptist and Nations Ford
Community Church.
Tb finish off the celebrations there will be five events on
Monday. They include a prayer breakfast at the H.L. McCrorey
Family YMCA at 7 a.m,; Pilgrim March from the Westin
Charlotte to Marshall Park at 8:30 a.m.; followed by a memori
al and wreath laying ceremony at 9 a.m. At 11 a.m., a national
holiday celebration will be held at the Charlotte Convention
Center with Tbrrence J. of BETs “106 & Park” as the keynote
speaker.
The Charlotte Symphony’s annual “Daybreak of Freedom”
program will take place at the N.C. Blumenthal Performing
Arts Center at 7 p.m.
M.L. King lieutenant to
keynote Duke program
FROM STAFF REPORTS
DURHAM - Former United Nations Ambassador Andrew
Yoimg, a civil rights leader and confidant of the Rev. Martin
Luther King Jr.' will speak at Duke on Jan. 14 as part of the uni
versity’s 18th annual commemoration of King.
Young will give the keynote address during a program in Duke
Chapel at 3 p.m. that is free and open to the public.
During the civil rights movement, Young served as executive
vice president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
while King was the group’s president. Young helped organize
voter registration drives and was jailed twice for participating
in demonstrations. He was with King at the Lorraine Motel in
Memphis when King was assassinated.
Young went on to become Georgia’s first Afncan-American
congressman since Reconstruction, twice winning re-election.
He was appointed ambassador to the United Nations by
President Jimmy Carter who in 1981 awarded him the
Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Come and enjoy a discussion with Dr. Kenneth E. Peacock,
Chancellor of Appalachian State University.
January 23, 2007
7:00 PIVI
New Birth-Charlotte
at University Place {next to Sam's Club)
604 Doug Mayes Place
Charlotte, NC 28262
Directions to event location:
Take 1-85 to Exit 45A (Harris Blvd);
turn right onto Harris Blvd.
From Harris Blvd - turn left onto JW Clay Blvd.
From JW Clay Blvd - turn left onto Doug Mayes Place
Dr. Kennelh E. Peacock, Chanoete .
Appalachian State Universily .
Tsrrell L, Murphy, Senior Pastor
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