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Knoxville Mayor Daniel T. Brown, left, talks to Chattanooga Councilman Andrae McGary during a Black History Month at the Historic Lindsay Street Hall. Brown is the first black mayor of Knoxville.Knoxville Mayor Daniel T. Brown said he remembers in August 1963 when a friend asked him to stop in Washington, D.C., for the March on Washington. Instead he drove through the city the day before the event and listened to it on the radio.
He said it’s a decision he regrets.
“I missed one of the most historic events in this country, so … if there is an event going on, I try to make it,” Brown said Thursday.
Brown, Knoxville’s first black mayor, was the speaker for the Department of Education, Arts & Culture Remember Your Dream Black History Month program at the Lindsey Street Hall.
The theme of the Black History Month event is “Remember Your Dream.”