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CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – The local Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Martin Luther King Celebration Steering Committee has announced its plans to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
The celebration begins with the NAACP Community Worship Service Sunday, Jan. 18 at First Missionary Baptist Church at 5 p.m. Members are encouraged to wear black and white.
The Committee will continue its tradition of Educational Workshops at Burt Elementary School on the Austin Peay State University campus Monday, Jan. 19 at 9 a.m. Registration is at 8:30 a.m. and the sessions continue through 10:30 a.m.
Completing the 2014 celebration is the 19th Annual Commemorative March Monday at noon, which shows solidarity in the Clarksville community of the ideals of Dr. King. All members of the public are invited to attend.
The march will begin in the parking lot in front of Burt Elementary School and go through downtown past Clarksville City Hall on Public Square, past The Montgomery County Jail on Commerce Street and back to the parking lot at the elementary school near the corner of 8th and Marion Streets.
(See photos from last year’s march here)
In 1994, Congress designated the Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Holiday as a national day of service and charged the Corporation for National and Community Service with leading this effort. Taking place each year on the third Monday in January, the King Day of Service is the only federal holiday observed as a national day of service. Over the years, Americans’ commitment to serve humanity on this great holiday has brought new meaning to the term, “the King Day of Service”.
Mayor Kim McMillan shared her own MLK Day message. Read it here.