Saved from Demolition, Martin Luther King Center Expected to Reopen Soon
A group working to reopen the Martin Luther King Jr. Center says it needs about $250,000 in repairs before reopening. They hope to open the facility in about three months.
Tearing down the Martin Luther King Jr. Center would be a travesty to Wade Clark. Clark is an activist in the hardscrabble North Greenwood neighborhood, where the facility is located. After almost a year of maneuvering, Clark, a leader for the Clearwater Martin Luther King Jr. Neighborhood Center group, was able to save it from demolition, at least for the next five years. “I just thought that our country needed to maintain some of the symbolic sites that are applicable to our heritage as black people,” Clark said. “I thought it would be absolutely a travesty that we would have the first Martin Luther King Center torn down in America.” Through an agreement with the Pinellas County School Board, the Clearwater Martin Luther King Jr. …
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katrina peterson
8:47 am on Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Thank for the coverage on the Martin Lurther King Center and the Neighborhood Coalition, it means alot to the group when we can get more information out to the people on what we are doing to make it possible for the Civil right leader where his name live on. more ›