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AUGUST 25
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hristians from a wide
variety of racial, cultural
and
denominational
backgrounds will unite Saturday,
August 25th for OneRace Stone
Mountain, an event of worship and
prayer for racial reconciliation, that
will begin with a climb to the top of
the mountain.
it becomes a national movement.”
OneRace Stone Mountain strives
to embody the nonviolent spirit
of Martin Luther King, Jr. Almost
exactly 55 years ago, on August
28, 1963, he delivered his famous
“I Have a Dream” speech on the
steps of the Lincoln
Memorial as part
of the March on
Washington.
“Let
“God’s
solution
for a divided nation
is a united church,”
Freedom
said Bishop Garland
In a classic refrain
Hunt, senior pastor of
from
the speech,
Ring...”
The Father’s House
King said “Let
in Norcross, Georgia,
Freedom Ring” from
and
co-executive
various
locations
director
of
the
around the country,
OneRace Movement. “Although including “Stone Mountain of
this event will be held outside Georgia.”
Atlanta, we will have participants
from around the South, and we hope
His mention of Stone Mountain
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was deeply symbolic. Although
today it ranks as the top tourist
attraction in Georgia, it was the
site of the rebirth of the Ku Klux
Klan in 1915. The mountain, which
rises 825 feet above the suburban
Atlanta landscape, has huge
carvings of Confederate leaders
Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and
Stonewall Jackson on its face.
“We’re inviting people to take a
stand for Christian unity and against
racism,” said Billy Humphrey, co-
executive director of the OneRace
Movement and director of Atlanta’s
International House of Prayer.
Organizers of OneRace Stone
Mountain have placed special
emphasis on getting young adults
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