Fleetwood-Jourdain MLK celebration honors young activists in Civil Rights movement

Fleetwood-Jourdain MLK celebration honors young activists in Civil Rights movement

Evanston Children’s Choir performs the Zulu folk song Aya Ngena. Credit: Joerg Metzner The City of Evanston and Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre presented the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Celebration at Fleetwood-Jourdain Community Center on Saturday. The event was a tribute to the hundreds of thousands of children and teenagers who engaged in peaceful sit-ins, school strikes, boycotts, marches and demonstrations during the Civil Rights Movement…