Protests/Marches: Lexington's First Martin Luther King Day Parade

This exhibit provides an account of the first parade honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. in Lexington, including information about the conflicts leading up to it, in relation to local Lee-Jackson Day traditions. 

He was a prose poem.

He was a tragic grace.

He was a warm music.

-Gwendolyn Brooks, "Martin Luther King, Jr."