The Wake Forest Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Committee is planning a four-day trip for area students to the Civil Rights Freedom Trail in Georgia and Alabama on March 2 through March 5.
The trip will cost $225 for students and $325 for adults, and the cost includes the breakfast buffet at the Embassy Suites in Montgomery, Alabama, and a carry-on box lunch. The committee members include Pastor Ken Steigler, who will be one of the tour guides; James Grant, chairman of the celebration committee; Peggy Blake; Ann Clemons, the second tour guide; Margo Grant; and Lori Moss.
They are now soliciting donations from local churches and organizations to provide sponsorships for the estimated 20 students from Wake Forest and Rolesville who will make the trip with five chaperones. People who want to know more about the trip can call Steigler at 978-979-8380 or James Grant at 973-580-2470.
2020 will mark the 25th year the Wake Forest-area community has met to celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. King on Thursday, Jan. 23, and the trip will introduce area students to his legacy by visiting his childhood home and some of the places where he lived, marched or delivered speeches.
The tour will include a visit to historical sites in Atlanta, Georgia and Dr. King’s childhood home on the first day; the Edmund Pettus Bridge and the Civil Rights Museum in Montgomery, Alabama on the second day; the National Legacy Museum of Peace & Justice and the Rosa Parks Museum on the third day; and the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church with the return home on the fourth day. Each night will be spent in the Embassy Suites in Montgomery.
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Mayor Jones’ State of the Town Address will be recorded and replayed on Wake Forest TV 10 throughout March. It will also be available in streaming video on the Town’s website at www.wakeforestnc.gov<http://www.wakeforestnc.gov>.
For more information about the 2020 State of the Town Address and Dinner, visit wakeforestnc.gov and search “State of the Town” or contact Communications & Public Affairs Director Bill Crabtree at 919-435-9421 or bcrabtree@wakeforestnc.gov<mailto:bcrabtree@wakeforestnc.gov>.
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