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Follow on Google News | MLK Day in Nashville finds the dream marching on...Struggles recalled; legacy celebratedDr. Kelly Miller Smith, Jr delivers speech on dreams, determination, and making a difference on MLK Day in Nashville, Tennessee.
"What you remember is the brick thrown into a home, the house set on fire," said Smith, 55, a Hillsboro High School graduate and pastor of Mount Olive Baptist Church-East in Knoxville. "My sister had dogs sicced on her." On Monday, Smith delivered a speech to thousands on the Tennessee State University campus, observing Martin Luther King Jr. Day 50 years after his father filed that desegregation lawsuit and a year into the term of the nation's first African-American president. He said the invitation to speak made him reflect on the enormous impact having those dinnertime conversations, and taking action despite the dangers, had on this nation. # # # Sunday School Publishing Board is the primary publisher of the National Baptist Convention, U.S.A. Inc. The Sunday School Publishing Board produces, markets and distributes African-American Christian resources to 40,000 churches and individuals nationwide End
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