The Daily News
After a star-studded VIP reception, attended by national, state and local dignitaries Friday night, Robert Hicks Day dawned Saturday with rousing and positively motivating speakers and inspired, celebratory singing.
The Robert Hicks Memorial Prayer Breakfast filled the Bethlehem Baptist Church Family Life Center with the spirit of the man who worked throughout his life to improve the quality of life for his people and for all people. Black and white, young and old remembered him Saturday, and vowed to carry on his cause.
 DAILY NEWS PHOTO/Marcelle Hanemann A downpour did not deter more than 100 marchers who walked the length of East 9th Street, now Robert “Bob” Hicks Street, to the historic Hicks home for renaming ceremonies Saturday. Others followed in a bus. Above, the first leg of the marchers reach Sullivan Drive. Advertisement |
Former Washington D.C. Mayor Marion Barry said he was scheduled to be in D.C. Saturday, but came to Bogalusa instead because he “deeply respects and admires” Robert Hicks and his family.
“Act on what he said,” he urged.
The event ended with all those present joining hands and singing, “We Shall Overcome.”
Then the people took to the street for a march from the old Central Memorial School down East 9th Street to the historic Hicks home and the primary focus of the weekend events, the renaming of that street to “Robert “Bob” Hicks Street.”
About 200 people walked or rode the length of the street undeterred by heavy rain, and family members and others involved in the local Civil Rights movement unveiled the new street signs along the way.
At the Hicks house, people soaked to the skin and bearing umbrellas chanted the slogan that has become the mantra of Robert Hicks’ memory—“Yes he did!”
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