By Beth Roberts
beth@uga.edu
Following the holiday on Jan. 15 in honor of the birth of Martin Luther King Jr., several events on campus will offer the community a chance to inaugurate “A New Century of Dreams,” the theme of this year’s King Week activities.
The annual ecumenical commemorative service is scheduled for Jan. 17 at 3 p.m. in the Chapel. The featured speaker will be Michael Thurmond, labor commissioner for the state of Georgia and a former faculty member in UGA’s Institute of Government.
This year’s King Remembrance March and Rally begins at 1:30 p.m. Jan. 16 at the Tate Student Center plaza. It will be followed at 3 p.m. in the Tate Center, by keynote speaker Lee Jones from Florida State University. In addition to being associate dean of FSU’s College of Education, Jones is an associate professor of educational leadership.
On Jan. 17 at 7:30 p.m. in the ballroom in Memorial Hall, Shay Banks-Young and Julia Jefferson will discuss their experiences as the great-great-great-grandchildren of Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings.
Atlanta artist Radcliffe Bailey is visiting the Lamar Dodd School of Art in conjunction with King Week and will deliver a public lecture at 5:30 p.m. Jan. 18 in room 116 of the visual arts building. Considered a rising star on the national art scene, Bailey is known for his visual statements reflecting family and heritage.
The Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection at the UGA Libraries will screen programs about Martin Luther King Jr. throughout the week. On Jan. 16 at noon, 1 and 2 p.m. in the theater at the Tate Student Center, three programs from the collection will be shown: “Free at Last,” celebrating King’s life and work, and two programs from WAGA-TV dealing with a “Brotherhood March” on King Day in 1987 and an opposing “white-power rally.”
From 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Jan. 16–19, programs from the Peabody Awards Collection will be shown continuously on a monitor in the lobby outside the student lounge on the first floor of the main library. The Jan. 16 programs will deal with King’s early years in the morning and with his adult life in the afternoon. On Jan. 17, the morning programs will deal with the Birmingham campaign and the afternoon programs with the campaign in St. Augustine. The Jan. 18 programs will deal with King’s work in Memphis. On Jan. 19 the screened programs will deal with the continuation of King’s work.
The King Week committee also has coordinated visits to local schools by university volunteers and a can-coat-blanket drive.
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