Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as Remembered by West Virginia Storytellers

All are invited to the Community Coalition for Social Justice's Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration co-hosted by the West Virginia University Osher Lifelong Learning Institute on Monday, January 20th at 2:00 p.m. on Zoom. The celebration is entitled “Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as Remembered by Storytellers in the graphic novel, West Virginians' Experiences in Civil Rights.” The program will feature interviews with five individuals who worked with Dr. King or were inspired through their contacts with him. Civil rights activist Al Anderson of Osage, West Virginia, heard Dr. King speak at the 1963 March on Washington, and it changed his life. Freedom Rider Joan Browning of Fort Hill, West Virginia, met Dr. King when she was a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Atlanta. Rev. Ronald English was the assistant pastor for Dr. King and his father at Ebeneezer Baptist Church in Atlanta before moving to Charleston, West Virginia, as pastor of First Baptist Church. Morgantown West Virginia, social justice activist Don Spencer traveled to Washington, DC, from New Hampshire to hear Dr. King speak at an anti-Vietnam War event in 1968 and, by chance, was on a bus with him on a trip to Arlington National Cemetery's Tomb of the Unknowns during that event. WVU alumna Sierra Velez was president of the WVU student NAACP chapter. All are featured in CCSJ's graphic novel. Al Anderson will also sing.
The registration link is https://bit.ly/41JeSJM. You must register to get the link for the Zoom program.

Category: Community | History