VETERAN EDUCATOR CELEBRATES DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

By Veronica Zambrano
Dr. Jerry Chambers, a veteran educator in the DISD school system, and member of the Martin Luther King Center board of trustees is leading a program honoring the world’s greatest civil rights leader on Friday, April 4th at the MLK Jr. Community Center in South Dallas 2922 MLK Blvd. Dallas, Texas 75215.

Dr. Chambers, was the lead organizer of the recent trip that took 30 public school children to civil rights sites in the south, is delivering the last speech given by Dr. King before he was assassinated on April 4th, 1968 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

“This speech is important because it was the last one given by a man who gave his life for all people,” said Dr. Chambers during an exclusive interview at the offices of the Dallas Post Tribune on Tuesday. “Mrs. Rosa Parks sat on a bus so that Dr. King would walk. Dr. King walked so that President Obama could run. President Obama ran so that the children of the day could fly,” said Chambers, who was a high school teacher at Booker T. Washington in Dallas when news reached the city that Dr. King had been shot.

Dr. Chambers, a graduate of Mississippi Valley State College, intends to lead another delegation of students to the South. Among those who contributed to the expenses for the student’s first trip were Dallas Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, and Dallas City Councilwoman Carolyn Davis.