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Show REVISITED Participants march, keep King's message alive BY SHANE FARVER Standard-Examiner staff sfarver@standard.net GDEN — Dozens of people, carrying the image of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s visage on signs and his dream in their hearts, marched through downtown Ogden Monday during the annual Munch ’n’ March in remembrance of the civil rights leader. ; They marched from the Marshall White Community Center to Martin Lu- ther King Jr. Boulevard to the Ogden amphitheater while singing spirituals about overcoming oppression. “This is a day of reflection as well as affirmation that the dream is still alive, that there is work to be done,” said Betty Sawyer, president of the Ogden Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. | The Munch ’n’ March, ponsored by the NAACP alive,” she said. “I need to King’s message. share with others so we do not Barbara Beard White heard King’s message firsthand on Aug. 28, 1963, when he forget.” Bonneville High School have a dream,” on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Then a teenager in Baltimore, White was sent by her parents on a bus to witness King’s speech. She didn’t realize how important the speech was at the time, but now she holds it in high regard. “We must keep the dream —— 7 ™ von he will do his part to keep King’s dream alive. “TI have decided to make Dr. King’s dream come true,” he said. “I aspire to be president of the United States.” Some attendees said more work needs to be done in terms of equality. “This is how it starts,” said Allen Platt, Weber State vice president of diversity. “A community comes together enlightening a few people each year. A few more get enlightened, and the light becomes a little bit brighter, and the end of the tunnel becomes a little closer.” King brought equality this far, said evangelical Rev. Bobby Porter of Kaysville. “Took at all the diversity in uttered the famous words, “I 1 oe Vien Ve senior Marshall Thomas said See MARCH/4B aj John Younger, above, bows his head # in prayer Monday at the Marshall | White Center in Ogden prior to the Freedom March, left, commemorating the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. ALAN MURRAY/Standard-Examiner |
