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Thursday, January 12, 2006
Community remembers King, Parks
NICK BAKER/THE POST
Melissa A. Dalzell (standing) rehearses for Monday's Martin Luther King Day celebration. She will portray Candie Anderson, a student from California who was arrested as part of her participation in the 1960s civil rights movement.
  In addition to the hour-long show, there will be gospel music and audience participation. Rosa Parks, who died in October 2005, will also be honored during the celebration.
  Parks won fame when she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery, Ala.
  Parks was arrested and King helped organize a boycott of the bus system that lasted more than a year.
  The boycott jump-started the desegregation movement, but it wasn't until nine years later that the Civil Rights Act was passed.
  The candlelight walk will begin at 6:15 p.m., and the show will start at 7 p.m.
  The master of ceremonies will be Feather River Hospital Chaplain Lafreeda Thomas.
  The musical director will be David Burdine, who is the Paradise High School choral director.
  Monday's program will be the sixth annual 'event the center has hosted.
  The center is located at the Paradise United Methodist Church located at 6722 Clark Road.
  Admission to the program is free.
  Call 877-1856 for more information.
BY TREVOR WARNER
ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR

  The times they are a-changing.
  While most folks 50 and, older remember the political and social unrest that sparked the civil rights movement, younger generations have grown up with the changes inspired by the movement.
  So with Martin Luther King Jr. Day coming up Monday, the Paradise Center for Tolerance and Nonviolence will be hosting its annual observance.
  The event will kick off with a candlelight vigil.
  There will also be a Play depicting the Tennessee lunch counter sit-ins of the 1960s that helped kick-start the movement.
  The play was written by center founder Wendy Hartley, president Ricardo Maldonado and Magalia resident Anne Wyckoff.
  Wycoff, who is a local playwright, said play is based on the actual events and includes dialogue from the PBS documentary about the subject called "A Force More Powerful."
  Other events and dialogue were taken from books about the sit-ins Wycoff said.
  The play will feature Ridgeadults and children depicting the characters of the now famous incidents.

Rosa Parks, who died in October 2005, will also be honored during the celebration.

  Because the show is a family program and children are involved in the program, Wyckoff said, a lot of the harsher language was taken out or changed.
 
 

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