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Organize Florida Legislative Action Training
Organize Florida held Legislative Action Training last month at the West Tampa Library. The training was held 9 a. m. – 5 p. m (Photographs by Julia Jackson)
Among those who attended the training session were, left to right, 1st row: Barbara Bartlett, Ronnie Demons, Tawanna Crawford, Sallylise Lee, and Beatrice Francis.
Second row, left to right:
Michelle Jewell, Juanita Mitchell, Julia Jackson, Delores Grayson, Dorothy Lewis, Alex Ayala, and Robin Lockett. Third row, left to right:
Rodney Johnson, EJ King, Lorenzo McCutcheon, Alice Moore, and Elton Lassiter.
Participants in one of the break-out sessions were: Barbara Bartlett, Alex Ayala, Alice Moore and Michelle Jewell.
Beatrice Francis makes a presentation.
Tampa’s Otis Anthony, Jr. And Rufus ‘Jabo’ Lewis Among 2020 Honorees At 35th Anniversary MLK Awards Banquet
The nationally renowned Full Gospel’s Apostle Car- los Malone of The Bethel Church of Miami, Florida, will open up MLK Week in Florida as the keynote speaker for the MLK Holiday & Legacy Association, Inc. and the National Christian League of Councils’ (NCLC’s) 35th Anniversary Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drum Major for Justice Lifetime Achieve- ment & Legends Awards Banquet in St. Petersburg.
NCLC’s National Direc- tor, Sevell Brown, III, states, “Apostle Malone will provide us information with some inspiration to help us get to our destination!!!” Rev. Robert Ward states, “Our caliber of keynote speakers for 35 years have featured the former lieu- tenants of Dr. King and Apostle Carlos Malone most certainly is on the same level of great orators that have spoiled the St. Peters- burg community over the last
OTIS R. ANTHONY, JR.
35 years.”
The banquet is sched-
uled for Friday, January 17, 2020at7p.m.attheMar- riott St. Petersburg, 12600 Roosevelt Blvd., St. Peters- burg FL 33716. Tickets are avalable. For additional in- formation, go to MLKholi- daylegacy@gmail.com.
The 2020 honorees are: Tampa Civil Rights Activist, the late, Otis Ronnie An- thony, Jr.; Minson Rubin, Founder of the
RUFUS LEWIS
Gibbs Gladiators Hall of Fame and Gibbs High School Alumni Association; Rufus “Jabo” Lewis, retired offi- cer of Tampa Police Depart- ment, and the Co-Founder of both Gibbs High organiza- tions; and Professor Paul Adams, Retired Associate Director of Bands at Norfolk State University. They will be the recipients of the “2020 35th Anniversary Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drum Major for Justice Lifetime Achieve-
ment & Legends Award In Civil Rights.”
Founders Sevell C. Brown, III, and Darryl L. Brown, Sr., stated, “The MLK Holiday & Legacy Asso- ciation, Inc. and the NCLC National Christian League of Councils consider it our honor and privilege to be- stow this honor upon Mr. Otis Anthony, Jr.
Brown, III, remem- bers, “It was 1996 when we watched St. Petersburg go up in flames on national televi- sion on October 24th and again on November 13th.” After getting past the imme- diate crisis, Brown receives the phone call from Otis An- thony and James Ran- som. “Otis, in his own traditional novel approach, says ‘Sevell, what are we going to do?’ Otis’ trade- mark as a strategist and tac- tician immediately kicks in as the agreements are solidi- fied to organized a “Hands Across The Bay” approach to
averting a third revolt in St. Petersburg and bring an halt to police impropriety, brutal- ity and misconduct.”
“On this historic 35th Anniversary, we look for dis- tinguished organizations in the Tampa Bay Area commu- nity to join us in recognizing our honorees and celebrating all the Civil Rights cam- paigns, initiatives, battles that were fought for the ad- vancement of equity and equality of African Ameri- cans and in celebrating those who have supported us over the last 35 years”, says Apos- tle Dr. Clarice Penning-
ton.These 2020 Honorees have walked in the footsteps of Dr. King for decades and are respected and to be held in highest esteem for sup- porting this historic 35 year Civil Rights sojourn in “Keeping Dr. King’s Dream Alive” and Dr. King’s legacy of advancing the Civil Rights of the African American community.
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