Music was provided by Felisha McCaster and the Mt. Cannon Youth Praise Choir. Dr. Laura Festa and Dr. Kenneth Harris spoke to the group of community leaders and ministers. The guest speaker was Dr. Alfred Powell of Memphis, Tennessee. Others involved in the ceremony included Ms. Regina Wagstaff, Dr. Charles Dunn, Mr. Lloyd Jackson, Dr. Bill Gentry, Dr. Alvin Futrell, Ms. Eula Thomas and Dr. Robert Houston as the presider of the ceremony.
Prayer is the preparation for work that demands vision, wisdom, and industry.
Jr. In the spring of 1968, an assassin s bullet ended King s life on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis but there is no weapon, except ignorance, that can end his legacy. And thus it is to us, who know and have been shaped by the legacy, to counter ignorance, with education and to keep the legacy vitally alive for children, youth, and young adults who did not witness Martin Luther King doing God s work in the world. We are shaped by the heroes and heroines we know. If we, who are entrusted with the legacy, fail to tell the stories and teach the children, the legacy becomes as fragile, as the life that was ended in Memphis. Martin Luther King was the right man, at the right time, at the right place, with the right message.