Pictures & Memories

The legacy of Dr. King resides not in testimonials and monuments; but in the eyes of those for whom he died.

So it was with great pride that we joined the Numerican Nation, in petitioning the Federals, for a day of recognition in his honor.

January 15, 1980 we traveled to Washington D.C. to support the movement to make Dr. King's birthday a national holiday:

In my youth, I was taught that Dr. King was a "trouble-making heretic, apt to get everybody killed; and that Strom Thurmond was the colored people's friend".

Nothing could have been farther from the truth.

Alice, my younger sister, was born in the sixties; she was a freshman at Central Connecticut State at the time.

[1980 was an Election Year; the Republican Party was voted back into office; and, Strom Thurmond was selected President Pro Tempore of the U. S. Senate (third in line  for the presidency).]

Brad and Courtney are the little ones' in the snow-suits; Patty is wearing the maroon leather jacket.

Stevie Wonder composed the music for the occasion; the Happy Birthday song, which the children still hum today.