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Let the healing continue!
Great job by Flagler College, President Bill Abare, Professors Michael Butler, Casey Welch, C.B. Hackworth, and Flagler College students, starting with Andrew Young's oral history collection and adding materials from archives all across America.
Tonight's reception was in the Flagler College Dining Hall (formerly Hotel Ponce de Leon, a once-segregated place where African-American high school students were arrested by Sheriff L.O. Davis.
During the program, I was moved to tears by the personal journey of two white Southern students, especially Brittany, whose local family once bragged about beating and nearly killing Dr. Robert S. Hayling, DDS. Brittany has now told her family that Dr. Hayling and Rev. Young are two of her biggest heroes!
As President Harry S Truman said, "The only thing new under the sun is the history you don't know."
The work continues, the dream survives and we shall overcome!
Thank you, Flagler College.
Your comments are most appreciated. The students to whom you refer are exceptional young people who give me a lot of hope for the future, and I'm also glad to know I wasn't the only one crying as they spoke.
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