We set aside the last Sunday evening in January to remember Dr. King and to challenge ourselves and our children to work to realize his Dream. This year, as always, Reverend Harcourt Klinefelter and Lois Mothershed Pot will join us to share their thoughts and memories. Reverend Klinefelter worked for Dr. King for three years, until his death. He went down South from Yale Theological Seminary to find him and became his public relations person. He ate dinners in his kitchen and marched by his side. Lois Mothershed Pot is the sister of Thelma Mothershed, one of the Little Rock Nine. She remembers how Thelma had to be escorted by the National Guard in order to enter high school. Lois was the first black student in her university and the first black president of the National Christian Students Union. During WWII, her father was in a segregated unit, fighting for the freedom he did not have. Like Reverend Klinefelter, Lois continues to work and speak about where we’ve come from and where we still have to go.
We hope you will join us. Bring your children, friends and neighbors. There will be wonderful jazz singers and musicians from Memphis, Chicago and ASH. Young speakers will briefly talk about what the “Dream” means to them and a representative of the US Embassy will share his or her thoughts.
Let Us Break Bread Together and as we do, let us also remember that January 27 is Holocaust Memorial Day, a date chosen by the UN in remembrance of the liberation of Auschwitz in 1945.
Dr. King warned, “The greatest crime of all is the silence of good men.” The challenge of his Dream is to always ask why and never, ever be silent. Then and only then “Shall we overcome.”
Sunday, January 26 at 5:30 p.m.
Hotel Den Haag, Zijdeweg 54, Wassenaar
(off the A-44 at the bridge)
€ 30 Adults / € 15 children under 12
Reservations or more information: oarinnl@yahool.com
Sponsored by OAR ~ Overseas Americans Remember
Anneke Beeuwkes, Michele Beier, Roberta Enschede, Tove McGrew, Jessie Rodell