The Kankakee County Branch of the NAACP, along with the Kankakee Federation of Labor and AFSCME Local 29, is sponsoring a charter bus, which will travel to Washington, D.C., this weekend for the 50th anniversary of the historic March on Washington.
The march was one of the key events in the civil rights movement. Martin Luther Ling Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream'' speech there on Aug. 28, 1963. President Barack Obama will give a speech at the same location of King's speech at the culmination of the anniversary gathering.
The bus will depart Kankakee at 4 p.m. Friday and travel overnight to reach Washington Saturday. It will begin its return to Kankakee late Saturday. The cost is $115 per person. For further information, call 815-953-2399.
Theodis Pace, president of the local NAACP, said in a press release the march will give participants a chance to press these points:
• To oppose the attack against the Voting Rights Act initiated by the U.
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