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Published on: 5/6/2004
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Gerald Eubanks, chairman of the civil rights committee, said the four-day program begins Thursday, June 17, with registration from 1-5 p.m. at American Legion Post 194, 1029 Pearl St.
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Transportation can be arranged by calling Eubanks at 794-1544.
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Many former and current leaders of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the years of demonstrations, sit-ins and marches will attend and participate in the conference, Eubanks said.
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Eubanks said the event is a celebration, not a protest.
"We were participants.This is an extension of the smaller celebration we had in 1992," he said.
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Eubanks, a Florida Memorial graduate, said students from that college -- which moved to Miami in the 1970s after its students received death threats -- were important to the civil rights movement.
"That's why they ran them out of town," he said.