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50th Civil Rights commemoration march - March 5, 2014 The 50th Anniversary Kentucky Civil Rights Commemorative March in Frankfort is March 5, 2014. Article highlights major event and gives details on being a part of it. (Planning to go, let us know - CM. And please remember to share the day with cellphone photos. - CM Columbia and Adair County have the opportunity to form a local Human Rights initiative in conjunction with the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights. Now that the Mayor and Judge have appointed members of the exploratory group, it may be time to gather and plan. In Taylor County, the group Greater Campbellsville United (GCU) has shared the following release to remind any who want to take part in the March 5 commemorative march in Frankfort to place the event on their calendars. - LINDA WAGGENER By Mary Ann Taylor, Kentucky Commission on Human Rights The Kentucky Commission on Human Rights along with the other members of the Allied Organizations for Civil Rights proudly announces the upcoming 50th Anniversary Civil Rights March on Frankfort. The commemorative march and accompanying rally will be from 9amCT/10amET-11amCT/12pm noon ET, Wednesday, March 5, 2014. Participants are asked to gather at the corner of 2nd Street and Capital Avenue at 8:30amCT/9:30amET to line up in order to proceed to the State Capitol, 700 Capitol Avenue, Frankfort, KY. Everyone who is proud of Kentucky's historic role in helping to end segregation by becoming the first state south of the Mason-Dixon Line to have a state Civil Rights Act is enthusiastically invited to participate. The historic March 5, 1964, Civil Rights March on Frankfort included more than 10,000 people who walked to the capitol to urge a law that would help end segregation by making discrimination illegal in the area of public accommodations such as stores, restaurants, theatres, and hotels. A host of Kentucky civil rights leaders, citizens of all races, and celebrities participated. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, and baseball great Jackie Robinson were among those who traveled to Kentucky to help lead the marchers to the capitol and speak to the crowd from the steps. The folk group Peter, Paul and Mary led songs about freedom. Gov. Edward (Ned) Breathitt met with Frank Stanley Jr., owner of the Louisville Defender newspaper and a key organizer of the event, other state civil rights leaders, and King and Robinson, to talk about the urgent need for a state civil rights law. The march helped build support for the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964 and helped result in the Kentucky Civil Rights Act of 1966. In order to facilitate event participation and logistics, the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights has assisted with forming a collaborative consisting of professional, educational, human rights and activist groups and individuals. The Allied Organizations for Civil Rights includes partners from all over the state. Included are the Kentucky Legislative Black Caucus, Kentucky Council of Churches, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, the Kentucky Conference of NAACP Branches, the Kentucky Chapter of the National Association of Human Rights Workers, the Kentucky Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, the Kentucky Black Caucus of Local Elected Officials, the Fairness Campaign, the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky, the Kentucky AFL-CIO, the A. Phillip Randolph Institute, the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, local human rights commissions throughout the state, and representatives of Kentucky's colleges and universities. "The Allied Organizations for Civil Rights hopes that men, women and children from all over the state who believe in continuing the justice movement will participate in the commemorative march and rally on March 5, 2014," said John J. Johnson, executive director of the state human rights commission. "It is our desire to build upon the legacy that 10,000 Kentuckians left in 1964 with efforts that ultimately led to the end of legal discrimination and the Kentucky Human Rights Commission being made the state authority charged with investigating and ruling on discrimination complaints," he said. Johnson said the Allied Organizations for Civil Rights also hopes to place modern-day human rights at the forefront of the commemorative event, highlighting such issues as encouraging full voter participation and others that affect civil rights such as working to end poverty, improve children's health, and restore voting rights to former felons whose prison terms have ended. The Kentucky General Assembly will be in session in March, and the event could present an opportunity for people to visit their state legislators and present to them concerns of Kentuckians who care about a variety of issues, Johnson said. "We will be encouraging schools and colleges to bring students to participate in the event, just as they did in 1964," Johnson said. "We hope to see busloads of students and teachers as well as human rights, religious, disability, and other activist and advocate groups," he said. To help with organization or to sign up to participate, contact Mary Ann Taylor of the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights at 1-800-292-5566. Or email her at AOCR@ky.gov. Allied Organizations for Civil Rights asks for as many volunteers as possible to help facilitate and to share the plan for the upcoming 50th Anniversary Civil Rights March on Frankfort on March 5, 2014, with others who may want to attend. The website for 50th Anniversary Commemorative Civil Rights March on Frankfort, is 50th March The Kentucky Commission on Human Rights is the state government authority that enforces the Kentucky Civil Rights Act, and, through its affiliation with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, enforces federal civil rights laws.The Kentucky Civil Rights Act makes it illegal to discriminate against people in the areas of employment, financial transactions, housing and public accommodations. Discrimination is prohibited in all these areas based on race, color, religion, national origin, gender, and disability. In employment, discrimination is further prohibited on the basis of age (40-years and over) and on the basis of tobacco-smoking status. In housing, discrimination is further prohibited based on familial status, which protects people with children in the household under the age of 18-years old, and it protects women who are pregnant. It is also a violation of the law to retaliate against a person who has made a discrimination complaint to the commission. This story was posted on 2014-01-30 08:23:43
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