GAINESVILLE - On a clear, sunny mid-winter afternoon an estimated 250 to 300 marchers began a new year and a new decade by celebrating the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior. They gathered as they have in years past in the SUNTRUST Bank parking lot for their march through downtown Gainesville to the Butler Center, only this year the march ended and the celebration continued at Fair Street School.
Faye Bush, long time leader of the New Town Florist Club, said Butler Recreation Center was no longer suitable for the gathering because of its age and condition; it is no longer maintained by the city since the opening of the Frances Meadows Community Center.
The Florist Club and the Interdenominational Black Ministers Association of Hall County sponsored and organized the march, assembling people who experienced Dr. King in their lifetimes, and those younger ones who learned about him in history books.
For Reverend Rodney Lackey of Antioch Baptist Church in Gainesville there is a connection; Martin Luther King was a preacher before he became Americaâ
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October 19th, 2024
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