Eugene events to honor MLK Jr.Byline: The Register-Guard Festivities fes·tiv·i·ty n. pl. fes·tiv·i·ties 1. A joyous feast, holiday, or celebration; a festival. 2. The pleasure, joy, and gaiety of a festival or celebration. 3. in Eugene honoring civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. next Monday will begin with a morning march along the newly renamed MLK MLK Martin Luther King MLK Milk MLK Medialess License Kit Boulevard and conclude with an evening celebration at the Hult Center. Both events, held on the national holiday honoring King's birthday and legacy, are free. The march, sponsored by the Eugene-Springfield branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), organization composed mainly of American blacks, but with many white members, whose goal is the end of racial discrimination and segregation. , will begin at 9 a.m. at the John Serbu Youth Campus on Martin Luther King Boulevard. Marchers will head west before crossing the Willamette River Willamette River River, northwestern Oregon, U.S. It flows north for 300 mi (485 km) into the Columbia River near Portland. Oregon's most populous cities are in its valley. The Fremont Bridge, a steel arch with a main span of 1,225 ft (373 m), crosses the river at Portland. to Eugene Water & Electric Board headquarters, where a brief program is planned. The march in past years began at Martin Luther King Park in west Eugene. But the NAACP NAACP in full National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Oldest and largest U.S. civil rights organization. It was founded in 1909 to secure political, educational, social, and economic equality for African Americans; W.E.B. Du Bois and Ida B. branch decided to change the locale after last year's successful but controversial effort to rename the Eugene portion of Centennial Boulevard. "We have a street now," said NAACP chapter president Marilyn Mays, "so it just seemed so much more significant to have people march on his street." For more information on the march, call 431-1119 or e-mail marilyndiane@msn.com. Next Monday evening's celebration will feature author Ralph Wiley giving a keynote address titled "Should America be the Moral Police of the World?" The Hult Center event begins at 7 p.m. Earlier in the day, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., Wiley will be at Borders Books at the Oakway Center in Eugene to sign copies of his books. Wiley, a journalist, satirist and screenwriter, most recently collaborated on a book with King's youngest son, Dexter King, titled "Growing Up King: An Intimate Memoir." Wiley has also collaborated on books with a range of celebrities, including film director Spike Lee, attorney Johnnie Cochran and baseball player Eric Davis. Wiley has written five books, including "Why Black People Tend to Shout" and "The Trials and Tribulations of the Making of `Malcolm X Malcolm X, 1925–65, militant black leader in the United States, also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, b. Malcolm Little in Omaha, Neb. He was introduced to the Black Muslims while serving a prison term and became a Muslim minister upon his release in 1952. .' ' The Hult Center event is sponsored by the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Committee. Lane Community College and its diversity team, the associated student union and the Black Student Union are among nearly 20 co-sponsors, which also include Lane County, the city of Eugene, Lane Transit District, Eugene Water and Electric Board and the Eugene School District Eugene School District (4J) is a public school district in the U.S. state of Oregon. It serves the city of Eugene Elementary schools
For more information, call Greg Evans at LCC (Leadless Chip Carrier, Leaded Chip Carrier) See leadless chip carrier, CLCC and PLCC. 1. LCC - Language for Conversational Computing. Written at CMU in the 1960's. at 868-6050. |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion