{"id":502,"date":"2005-05-05T11:21:06","date_gmt":"2005-05-05T16:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=502"},"modified":"2005-05-05T11:37:46","modified_gmt":"2005-05-05T16:37:46","slug":"mlk-blvd-dedication-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/mlk-blvd-dedication-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"MLK Blvd Dedication &#8211; Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.yahoo.com\/maps_result?addr=airport+road&#038;csz=chapel+hill%2C+nc&#038;country=us&#038;new=1&#038;name=&#038;qty=\">Airport Road, which is not to be confused with Airport Drive<\/a> and which does not take you anywhere near <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.yahoo.com\/maps_result?addr=rdu&#038;csz=&#038;country=us&#038;new=1&#038;name=&#038;qty=\">the Raleigh-Durham Airport<\/a>, will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.townofchapelhill.org\/MLK\/\">officially become Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard on Sunday May 8<\/a> which is also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.townofchapelhill.org\/MLK\/king_firstvisit.html\">the 45th anniversary of MLK, Jr&#8217;s visit to Chapel Hill<br \/>\n<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.townofchapelhill.org\/MLK\/dedication.html\">There&#8217;s a big ceremony planned with music, speakers, poetry and politicians.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WHEN: Sunday, May 8, 2005 2:30 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 4 pm<\/p>\n<p>WHERE: OUTSIDE CHAPEL HILL TOWN HALL<br \/>\nat the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Stephens Street<\/p>\n<p>MUSICAL PERFORMANCES<br \/>\nJ.R. Manley Essence of God Youth Choir<br \/>\nThe St. Joseph Male Chorus<\/p>\n<p>WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS<br \/>\nMayor Kevin C. Foy, Town of Chapel Hill<\/p>\n<p>INVOCATION<br \/>\nReverend Jill Edens, United Church of Chapel Hill<\/p>\n<p>THE OCCASION<br \/>\nBill Thorpe, Former Chapel Hill Town Council Member<\/p>\n<p>SPECIAL PRESENTATION<br \/>\nElizabeth Aklilu<\/p>\n<p>HISTORICAL REMINISCENCE<br \/>\nFred Battle, President, Chapel Hill Carrboro NAACP<\/p>\n<p>CLOSING<br \/>\nRemarks, Street Sign Unveiling, and Call to March<br \/>\nMayor Foy<\/p>\n<p>PEOPLE&#8217;S PROCESSION to Hargraves Center<\/p>\n<p> WHEN: 4 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 6 pm<\/p>\n<p>HARGRAVES CENTER,<br \/>\n216 N. Roberson St. <\/p>\n<p>MUSICAL PERFORMANCES<br \/>\nUnited Voices of Praise<br \/>\nLiquid Pleasure <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airport Road, which is not to be confused with Airport Drive and which does not take you anywhere near the Raleigh-Durham Airport, will officially become Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard on Sunday May 8 which is also the 45th anniversary of MLK, Jr&#8217;s visit to Chapel Hill . There&#8217;s a big ceremony planned with music, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-and-other-friends","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}