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By Kevin Boozer,
Contributing writer
Newberry County residents honored the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by marching on Monday, January 16. They marched to a theme of “Remember! Celebrate! Act! A Day On, not a day Off.” Beginning at 9:30 a.m., the march went from Bethlehem Baptist Church on College Street to Miller Chapel AME Church on Caldwell Street in downtown Newberry. Residents of Whitmire’s Sim’s Chapel Youth Choir sang two songs at the gathering that followed the march. The church gathering included guest speaker Dr. Timothy Turner, a Newberry High School Graduate who is a professor at the Tuskegee University where he does pioneering research on prostate cancer. When he was in 4th grade, Turner was one of the first students to integrate Speers Street Elementary School in Newberry.
Around 220 people joined the march including Mayor Foster Senn, Sheriff Lee Foster, and Representative Walt McCleod. People from as far away as Philadelphia, New Jersey and Columbia, SC marched and listened to speeches with calls for social justice, personal accountability, and responsible citizenship.
For the rest of the story, read this week’s Whitmire News.
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