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saying: "Set out for the great city of

message that will tell you." Jonah began his journey through the city, and had

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gone but a single day's walk announcing, "Forty days more and Nineveh

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by their actions how they turned from their evil way, he repented of the evil that

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SERVING CATHOLICS IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA IN THE DIOCESE OF CHARLOTTE

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FIGHTING FOR LIFE

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Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

March for Life president

honored at memorial celebration

reflects on her 30 years

and legacy ofcivil rights leader focus ofannual event

Life

of involvement By WILLY THORN News Service

Catholic

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as "a temporary ad hoc body," the original March for Life group also de-

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have a place

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that led her to leadership of the annual march, which marked

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according to

one of the few addresses they knew (there)," she said. "So they met in my house. And that's how I became president

previous marches and the path

preme Court's

anniversary of the de-

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first

Gray, "decriminalized, not

In an interview with Catholic

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of East Coast activists wanted

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Week 2003

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By KEVIN

E.

MURRAY

Acting Editor

CHARLOTTE

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Students at Our Lady of Grace School in Greensboro look forward to celebrating Catholic Schools Week Jan. 26-Feb. 1. This year's theme is "Making a World of Difference." Look for coverage of Catholic Schools Week in the Feb. 7 issue of The Catholic News & Herald.

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King became a symbol of pro-

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the celebration featured

test in the struggle for racial

him to 30-second sound bits of "I Have a Dream," because he was so much more." "He was a tactician. He showed us how to use social power for the benefit of all. That's what Jesus was about,"

workshops and focused on the

justice.

of Rev. King, who challenged and help foster positive change to segregation and racial discrimination in

"Dr. King Jr. was a multitalented, multifaceted and multidimensional leader of the second reconstruction," said Ahmad Daniels, the keynote speaker at the celebration. "We do him and ourselves a

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the United States in the 1950s and 1960s. After his assassination in 1968, Rev.

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Sponsored by the diocese's African American Affairs Ministry,

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Ahmad Daniels speaks on the

Celebration for Martin Luther King Jr. at Our Lady of Consolation Church Jan. 20. Daniels described Rev. King as a "multitalented, multifaceted and multidimensional leader."

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