San Marcos Mayor Daniel Guerrero, left front, and city council member Chris Jones, right front, leads Hays County’s annual Martin Luther King Day parade from the courthouse square. (photo by Melissa Millecam)
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About 100 people turned out on Monday to celebrate Martin Luther King Day at the Hays County Courthouse with rousing speeches followed by a march that streamed down LBJ Drive and then turned onto MLK Drive.
Hays County has dedicated a plot of land at the intersection of the two streets for a monument honoring both the civil rights activist and the U.S. president who did more than any other toward ending discriminatory Jim Crow laws.
Supporters of the LBJ/MLK Crossroads Project have raised enough funds and commitments to pay for the monument, Pct. 1 Commissioner Debbie Gonzales Ingalsbe announced, and will soon begin seeking design proposals from artists.
“Today, we celebrate the dream of this memorial becoming a reality,” Ingalsbe said.
The event is sponsored by the Dunbar Heritage Association.
