M.A. Andrews

Speakers were Dr. Martin Luther King: Dr. Linda H. Hopper, Assistant Superintendent, Cleveland County Schools; Shelby Mayor Ted Alexander and Johnny Hutchins, Chairman, Cleveland Board of Commissioners.

They gathered together in common unity and marched to Malcolm Brown Auditorium on the campus of Shelby High School. It was a special day for a special man in American history. The man, born Michael Luther King, Jr. in Atlanta, who later changed his first name to Martin, was celebrated and proclaimed the reason for continuing the “dream” for a change. The distinguished ceremony echoed the achievements of the civil rights movement as well as projecting the call for continuance. It all could be summed up in one word. That word being “together”. “Together” to give all Americans and peoples of the world total equality in their lives. Dr. Clinton A. Feemster, Pastor, Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church, Kings Mountain and Director, Pittman Center for Congregational Enrichment at Gardner Webb-University, Boiling Springs was guest speaker for the event.