OZARK - The slain civil right leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was honored with a service of remembrance and reflection hosted by the Ozark-Dale County Ministerial Alliance at Greater
“The beloved mindset to transform unjust systems,” taken from the Bible book of Romans Chapter 12, was the theme of the program that featured the Ozark Community Mass Choir, soloist Jaelon Cohen, and reflections from Elder James Harris of the Shiloh Seventh Day Adventist Church, Chaplain Roderick Swanson from the Church of God in Cleveland, Tenn., longtime Ozark resident and business owner Inez Pennington, and her daughter, Winnie Frazer.
People are also reading… Enterprise Mayor William Cooper, keynote speaker at the event, agreed. “We should work together to restore our country’s moral and spiritual ground and choose to make a change, look beyond skin color to character and seek guidance and understanding from God. Listen now and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | RSS Feed | Omny Studio Cooper was a freshman at Alabama State University in 1959 when he met Dr. King at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. “I grew up in the crucial years of the civil rights movement.
Cooper said that after he graduated from ASU, “Professor” B.F. Garth, principal of the all Black High School in Enterprise, Coppinville High School, hired him to become the director of bands at Coppinville. Under Cooper’s leadership the group of 15 band students grew to 165.
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