gone by when he, too, partic- Dream From | ipated in peaceful protests — in Washington, D. C., and Texas. 1B George Garwood did what his ancestors, who couldn't vote, likely never even thought possible. He became part of a governing body. He became a councilman. And when he won last November’s mayoral race with a 72 percent vote, Garwood made history. dream has “My I have but true, dreams,” he said. come other He said when he thinks back to when he was about 18 and the civil rights: movement was in’full swing, and compares that to the days when he watched his two children graduate from college and become a lawyer and an executive, “I think the dream has come true.” When King was assassi- nated, Smith was working at a federal building in Texas, “O, let my land be a land and when the request was where liberty is crowned made to lower the flag to no false _ patriotic with half staff, it was denied. It wreath, But opportunity 1s took a presidential decree real, and life is free, Equality before they would show reis in the air we breathe.”spect to the leader of the Poet Langston Hughes civil rights movement. Smith, a For Tommy ‘Tt shows how far we've member of the Roy City come from that to a national Council, Monday’s march holiday,” Smith said. was reminiscent of days ers 3