Kings Mountain to host Martin Luther King event

To honor the memory of the Rev. Martin Luther King, the Mauney Memorial Library and the City of Kings Mountain will bring a famous traveling theater to perform

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The guest speaker for the event could be WBTV's Emmy-winning journalist Steve Crump. Tune could be provided by Henry Gilmore III.

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Crump is best known for his regional Emmy Awards for testimony ranging from apartheid in South Africa to civil rights in the American South.

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He has also won a few other awards, including four Headliner Awards across the country, the Gabriel Award, and more than a dozen first-place awards from the national association

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In 2016, Crump was named the "2016 Journalist of the Year" with the help of the National Black Hound Association.

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Beginning a television career in 1980, Crump has worked at news stations in Florida, Kentucky and Michigan, as well as an independent maker for Charlotte's

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"Meet Dr. King" is an introduction to the existence and work of one of the most influential men in the United States

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This exhibit is suitable for younger audiences and serves to introduce college students to essential principles of black history such as freedom,

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