Remembering The Dream: Residents Honor Martin Luther King, Jr.

January 17, 2012

Residents across the area gathered Monday to honor the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with parades, motorcades and uplifting programs.

In Century, residents gathered at a program sponsored by the Century-Flomaton Improvement Association where guest speaker Tony R. McCray, Jr. told the attendees to follow in the footsteps of King’s dream.

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“Dr. King had a dream. We need to keep that dream alive that one day we will all be able to stand together and work together. We must have faith,” McCray  said. “Remember, faith can move mountains. All we want to do is move some dollars and create jobs and business opportunities for our community, for our cities and for our county.”

McCray, executive director of the IBIS Community Development Corporation, said communities in Escambia County could come together for mutual benefit under a program called Higher Heights Escambia.

“When we work together, when we plan together, when we pray together when we invest together, when we raise our voices together, we can accomplish much more,” he said. ” A new effort of black leadership, and of white leadership, is coming together to move to a higher height of unity…We are going to be calling on you in Century to sit down to the table and let’s work through our problems.”

Also during Monday’s event in Century, a $250 William R. McMurray Scholarship, presented by the Jackson McMurray Funeral Service, was awarded to Kiara Williams.

Similar events, parades and motorcades were held across the area Monday, including Flomaton, Atmore and Pensacola.

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Pictured top: Attendees join in a chorus of “We Shall Overcome” during a Martin Luther King, Jr. program in Century Monday morning. Pictured top inset: Leola Robinson listens to a speaker during the program. Pictured bottom inset: A musical performance. Pictured below: Dozens of Century area residents attended the program. NorthEscambia.com photos, click to enlarge.

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3 Responses to “Remembering The Dream: Residents Honor Martin Luther King, Jr.”

  1. David Huie Green on January 19th, 2012 6:01 pm

    CONSIDERING:
    “We’re in this together, as a world family. And like a family we must help each other in times of need. ”

    Some family members don’t want help or appreciate attempts to help them. (“Mind your own business!”)

    Some family members flatly refuse to benefit from the help offered via the educational opportunities offered and then complain about the lack of jobs for people who refused to get a free education — including job training — when offered.

    Others will proclaim their need rather than work honestly to meet their own needs. That irritates other family members and makes them less likely to try to help those who actually could be helped.

    Some only want enough help to buy enough drugs for one more use.

    David remembering family members
    who insisted on going astray

  2. Fconcern on January 19th, 2012 8:46 am

    I was suprised that nothing was mentioned about the Martin Luther King essay contest. The essay contest had eight entries, and produced three winners, 1st place, and two 2nd place winners. These young people put a lot of work into their essays and read them at the program.
    When our young people do wrong it’s written all over the internet, newspapers and spoken about on the media. Why when they do great things like this nothing is said about them? All the essays were great . A worthy tribute to a great man!!!!

  3. Kafantaris on January 17th, 2012 2:32 am

    When are we going to learn that it is no longer “us” or “them” anymore.  It is only “us” now. 
    We’re in this together, as a world family. And like a  family we must help each other in times of need. 
    No matter who we are or where we are, we all breathe and bleed the same; we all love and cry the same; and we all hope and dream the same.  Infinitely more unites us than what sets us apart. 
    It’s about time we accept this truth and try to solve our problems as the world family that we are. 

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