From Facebook (Candice Dyer's page)
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Mildred Greear is still haunted by the screams and wails she heard from the community known as "the quarter," when she was growing up in Laurel, MS, the "lynching capital of the country." She likened the sound to the "lowest of the low notes on a pipe organ." As an educator, she campaigned for integration, and she has been a lifelong activist and humanitarian, running a domestic violence shelter, organizing coat drives for earthquake victims (no child will shiver in the cold, if she has anything to do with it), working for environmental conservation, and performing countless other good deeds in the name of social justice. (She is also a poet nonpareil.) Mildred will march in the MLK peace demonstration tomorrow in Clarkesville. She is 94 years old.
Join us, if you'd like, and learn from Mildred's example. 2 p.m. at the gazebo. |
Makes me want to drive to Clarksville to join one of my beloved mentors in this march.
But remember folks, we have a commemorative march right here in Rome. Gather at 11 a.m. at the Etowah River end of Broad Street at 1st Ave. Let's make the 2015 march the biggest, most diverse one ever.
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