LAWRENCE COUNTY - DECEMBER 20, 2022 - The Lawrence County Commissioners approved the Unity Celebration to be held on January 15, 2023, inside the Lawrence County Courthouse.
This year, the Unity Celebration will fall on Martin L. King Jr. birthday January 15th. Clarance Brown asked for the use of the courthouse grounds like previously before.
Clarance Brown looks on during the Lawrence County Commissioners meeting this morning
Lawrence County Commissioners gave Brown their blessing of the event; even falling on Lawrence County Commissioner President birthday January 17 in previous years, had overwhelming support.
Martin Luther King Jr. January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968
The Unity Celebration first started under Bedford City Mayor John Williams who was asked about doing the bringing the community together from Clarence Brown almost 35 years ago.
The event is held in all kinds of weather
Clarance Brown says he did not know what racism was, until making his way to Tennessee in his college years.
Living in Bedford, Brown's family did not face any of the problems the negroes faced in many communities throughout the United States.
The event brings a time of song, reflection and how to keep the community together in the spirit of unity and of love. In addition, noting that many communities and race relations are not like what they are in the Lawrence County area.
The event normally ends with a march around the courthouse or to a nearby church in Bedford.
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