JOHNSON CITY – A Freedom Walk and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Celebration will take place at East Tennessee State University on Tuesday, Jan. 22.
The Freedom Walk begins at 12:30 p.m. at ETSU parking lot 1A, which is adjacent to the BP gas station and market at the corner of University Parkway and W. Walnut Street.
The walk ends at the Common Grounds Coffeehouse in The Cave of the D.P. Culp University Center, where the King Birthday Celebration begins at 1 p.m.
This event celebrating the life of King features music by the ETSU Gospel Ensemble, a special candle-lighting ceremony led by Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, and interpretations of two of the civil rights leader's speeches. Justin Lynch, a business major from Kingsport, will give an interpretation of King's "I See the Promised Land" speech, and student Tracy Haynes of Elizabethton will give an interpretation of the speech, "I Have a Dream." A cake-cutting ceremony is also included.
The Freedom Walk and King Birthday Celebration are sponsored by the ETSU office of multicultural affairs. For more information or for special assistance for persons with disabilities, call Laura Terry or Stephanie Joiner at (423) 439-4210.