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At the end of the day, it is not our enemies we remember,
but the silence of our friends! Dr. Martin L. King
Boycott planned for MLK event in Greenville
GREENVILLE, N.C. — The leaders of two civil rights organizations plan to boycott a breakfast honoring civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and have asked their members to join them.
Bennie Rountree, president of the state chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, said his group will boycott the breakfast Monday to protest the city council's refusal to rename all of Fifth Street after King.
Martin Luther King Jr. Drive extends from Memorial Drive east to the edge of downtown Greenville through a predominantly black neighborhood. East of downtown and west of Memorial Drive, the road is named Fifth Street.
"Out of all the cities I've ever been in, Greenville is the one that splits Martin Luther King up between two streets," Rountree said last week. "Martin Luther King was not a piece of man. But yet they gave him a piece of street."
The Greenville-Pitt County Chamber of Commerce and the city sponsor the annual breakfast.
Calvin Henderson, president of the NAACP's Pitt County chapter, said he also plans to boycott the breakfast. (Read More)