{"id":6157,"date":"2014-01-16T22:12:40","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T22:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/?p=6157"},"modified":"2024-04-22T14:38:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T18:38:49","slug":"chester-mlk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/2014\/01\/16\/chester-mlk\/","title":{"rendered":"Chester &amp; Vicinity King Day Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>MLK Commemorative Committee of Chester &amp; Vicinity<\/strong> has organized the following events, all of which are open to the public, which will occur on Monday, January 20:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Volunteer to participate in service projects taking place at the Chester Boys &amp; Girls Club, 201 E. 7th Street, Chester PA, 9 AM &#8211; 12:30 PM. All volunteers are asked to pre-register by sending an email to aubrey.proud@crozer.org prior and to report to the Boys &amp; Girls Club at 9 AM on Monday, January 20.<\/li>\n<li>Attend a ceremonial wreath-laying in front of Old Main Building (where Dr. King studied when he was in the Crozer Theological Semiary) at Crozer-Chester Medical Center, 1:00 PM.<\/li>\n<li>Listen to a keynote address by Rev. Dr. Clifford Johnson of Shiloh Baptist Church at Clark Auditorium, Widener University, 2:00 PM.<\/li>\n<li>Celebrate the significance of Dr. King&#8217;s life and work, and honor the memory of Nelson Mandela, at the Alumni Auditorium, Widener University, 6:30 PM. This event is sponsored by Widener University&#8217;s Black Student Union.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Questions? Contact the Swarthmore College point person for these events, Cynthia Jetter (cjetter1 at \u00a0swarthmore.edu).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6163\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6163\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6163 \" alt=\"Civil Rights\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/01\/Civil_rights_Tallahassee_wikimedia_CC-300x241.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"241\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6163\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Civil rights demonstration in front of a segregated theater: Tallahassee, Florida<br \/>By Florida Memory [see page for license], via Wikimedia Commons. http:\/\/bit.ly\/1hvP0m4<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MLK Commemorative Committee of Chester &amp; Vicinity has organized the following events, all of which are open to the public, which will occur on Monday, January 20: Volunteer to participate in service projects taking place at the Chester Boys &amp; Girls Club, 201 E. 7th Street, Chester PA, 9 AM &#8211; 12:30 PM. All &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/2014\/01\/16\/chester-mlk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chester &amp; Vicinity King Day Events<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[268,155],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175424859,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6157\/revisions\/175424859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}