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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
WASHINGTON who you
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in late 1973, a
— "Be
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in
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cisions that,
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on the 29
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Washington and
it
I
was
Life."
as "a temporary ad hoc body," the original March for Life group also de-
1973,
and Doe
have a place
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vs.
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didn't
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They were aware
of March for
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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Gray
first
Gray, "decriminalized, not
In an interview with Catholic
group
of East Coast activists wanted
vs.
See MARCH FOR
Bolton decisions on abortion.
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By KEVIN
E.
MURRAY
Acting Editor
CHARLOTTE
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The
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of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was present throughebration for Martin Luther King Jr. at Our Lady of Conso-
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.
Jan. 18.
King became a symbol of pro-
great disserv ice
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
life
the United States in the 1950s and 1960s. After his assassination in 1968, Rev.
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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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