GAINESVILLE - Monday's Martin Luther King Memorial March hosted by the Newtown Florist Club was open to everyone.
John Odegaard and his wife Ellen were among several hundred people who marched in downtown Gainesville to recall the slain Civil Rights leader.
The Martin Luther King march through downtown Gainesville Monday had many participants who know the civil rights leader only through books and films.
Fourteen year old Shayla Bush said King's message still lives.
Bush said the march helps keep King's dream alive, though he was assassinated in 1968.
Marchers in downtown Gainesville Monday recalled the triumph over de-segregation and the man who led the way.
They were several hundred strong and they sang as they marched along.
March chairman Sarah Nash said the children who marched did not know the Gainesville of her childhood when there were white and colored signs and public facilities and restaurants were segregated.
Nash said the signs are gone because of Martin Luther King and what he stood for.
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January 15th, 2025
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