The local march in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. drew a variety of people from those in their 80s to babies in strollers.
Franklin Gans, the outgoing president of the NAACP Orange Branch, said he was glad to see young people. He told them they still have a job to do because generations share progress in civil rights.
He told the group “We have not arrived,” but things have changed. Now people can enter the occupation they dreamed of. “When I was a young person, I had some places in mind where I thought I wanted to live and raise my children,” he said. “God hear my prayer and there was someone out there marking knowing what my dream was, what your dream was.”
Pastor Demetrius Moffat of the Orange Church of God is the new president of the local NAACP.
The Orange Branch has sponsored a march in honor of King nearly every year since the national holiday began in 1986. This year the march ended at Orange City Hall.
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