U.S. Attorney’s Office celebrates African-American heritage
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District on Thursday presented its 2013 African-American Heritage Program. Focusing on the civil rights movement in 1963, the office offered a multimedia presentation complete with video, fine art and musical selections.
United States Attorney Loretta E. Lynch served as the mistress of ceremonies. The all-male ensemble MANIFEST provided a harmonious rendition of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” the Black National Anthem.
The program committee compiled a video presentation of historic events in 1963. Images of the iconic March on Washington, clips of the infamous Alabama governor Bull Connor, and footage from the bombing of a Birmingham church that killed four young girls flashed across the screen. After the video, Linda McNeill, a paralegal specialist, preformed a dramatic reading reflection of the death of those young girls.