Dr. Tommie Brown will be the guest speaker for the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration organized by the Unity Group.SCHEDULE* 3:30 p.m. Marchers begin assembly outside Tivoli Theatre, 709 Broad St.* 4:30 p.m. March from Tivoli to Olivet Baptist Church, 740 E. M.L. King Blvd.* 5 p.m. Program at Olivet Baptist
The civil-rights movement had its beginnings in churches, so Chattanooga’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration will pay tribute to those roots Monday, Jan. 20, by honoring the civil-rights leader at Olivet Baptist Church.
Olivet was a “pioneering civil-rights church,” along with New Zion Baptist Church, according to Quenston Coleman, who heads event organizer Unity Group.
Out of the churches, he said, the Unity Group was formed.
The celebration, traditionally involves a march down M.L. King Boulevard and then to the Tivoli Theatre. This year the event will instead start outside the Tivoli with a march to M.L. King Boulevard and then up to Olivet Baptist.