Story and photos by Greg Miley, SON Messenger
The annual birthday celebration of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Emancipation Proclamation, spon- sored by The Greater Huntsville Interdenominational Ministerial Fellow (GHIMF), was held on Saturday, January 15, 2022, 7:00 p.m., at the Church Street CPCA in Huntsville, Alabama, where the Rev. Dr. Mitchell Walker is the Pastor, was the host church. Due to the ongoing COVID pandemic, the service was a virtual service, and was live streamed on the Church Street CPCA YouTube channel. COVID restrictions limited in-house attendance.
Speaker for this year was Rev. Dr. Jerry Crutcher.
Civil War. Lee was born on Jan. 19, 1807 in Virginia and died Oct. 12, 1870.
King was born on Jan. 15, 1929. Efforts to designate a holiday for King began shortly after his assassination on April 4, 1968. It took until 1983 for Congress to pass the measure with the first official MLK Day observed on the third Monday of January 1986 but only recognized in 27 states. It was officially observed in all 50 states for the first time in 2000.