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Events
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Marchers will call in at three parks, each hosting a
short performance, before reaching their destination,
the Garfield Community Center, 2323 E. Cherry St.
Each of the parks on the route is named after a local
civil rights leader.
Donita Fry (Shoshone-Bannock), a youth and elders
The march will visit:
council organizer from the Native American Youth and
Sam Smith Park, named after the first African-
Family Center, will give the keynote speech at American member of the Seattle City Council. Smith
Washington County’s 11th annual Martin Luther King served from 1975 to 1991.
Day Celebration. Fry will speak at 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan.
Powell Barnett Park, named after the community
15 at Southminster Presbyterian Church, 12250
leader whose vision
Southwest Denney Road in
helped improve civic
Beaverton. Beaverton Mayor
unity and race rela-
Denny Doyle will also greet
tions in the 1960s
the audience.
and 1970s.
The event will include
Sidney
Gerber
awards to the winners of the
Park, which honors
Human Rights Council of
the philanthropist,
Washington County poster
engineer,
civic
contest. And an exhibit by the
Martin Luther King Jr., 1968 leader and six-year
Oregon
Area
Jewish
chair of the State
Committee “No Easy Road:
Board
Against
Unlearning Discrimination in Oregon.
Discrimination.
Also on the program, letters to Dr. King, a video
When they arrive at Garfield Community Center, the
about the civil rights leader and everyday hero award marchers will watch the oral
presentations. Free and open to the public.
histories of veterans of Seattle’s civil rights cam-
paigns and engage in small and large
group discussions to reflect on the contributions of
Seattle teens are civil rights commemoration march Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil
rights movement and how the movement has evolved
in honor of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. celebration.
Teens from across King County will gather at 1 p.m. over time.
For more information, please call Ron Mirabueno at
Saturday, Jan. 14 at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
206-233-3979, or e-mail him at
Park, 2200 Martin Luther King, Jr. Way. Seattle.
ron.mirabueno@seattle.gov.
Donita Fry to Speak at
Washington County’s King
celebration
The world is changing and
anyone who thinks he can live
alone is sleeping through a
revolution
Seattle Teens March
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