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Regular B.C. Celebrates Black History Month & Clara Ester an eye witness to the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Clara Ester, an eyewitness to the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. will be the guest speaker on Thursday, February 27, 2020, at Regular Baptist Church. Ms. Ester rushed up the stairs of the Lorraine Motel, in Memphis, TN to help Dr. King after he was shot, on April 4, 1968. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the service starts at 7:00 p.m. at 901 5th Street, Gretna, LA 70053. The theme for the program is "African Americans and the Vote”. Admission is free and open to the public. Organizations and individuals that have been instrumental in promoting voting rights will be honored during the program. The 2020 honorees are Jeremiah Group, Voice of the Experienced (VOTE), Rho Pi Omega Chapter, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., MLK Task Force, Inc., Clara Byes, and Cedric Floyd.
Regular Baptist Church also hosted a dynamic Black History Month Concert featuring Landry Walker and Edna Karr High School Choirs on Thursday, February 13, 2020, at 7:00 p.m.
The Regular Baptist Church History Museum will be open after the February 27, 2020 program and also after the 8:30 a.m. and 10:45 a.m. church services from February 17 to March 1, 2020. This year in addition to the 153-year history of RBC, there will be a special museum exhibition that will chronicle the African American vote as we celebrate the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, ratified August 18, 1920, giving women the right to vote and the 150th anniversary of the Fifteenth Amendment, ratified on February 3, 1870, giving the right to black men to vote after the Civil War.
Afrocentric attire is always appropriate at RBC during the month of February.
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