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‘City of Roses’
Number 8
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Wednesday • February 11, 2015
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King Visits Portland
Meeting of the Reverends a Black History moment
Clergy from Portland’s African American community meet Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1961 at Vancouver Avenue First
Baptist Church. History will be made again Sunday, Feb. 15 at the church when the late civil rights leader’s direct descen-
dent and youngest daughter, Rev. Bernice A. King, visits the congregation to keynote the church’s annual ‘Empower the
Dream’ Drum Major Ecumenical Community Scholarship Service. See stor y, page #.