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Thursday, 27 February 2020 14:16

Looking back: Unsung hero fought for equality in Galveston

Kelton Sams, right, gave the invocation and benediction at a 1977 ceremony renaming South Park Boulevard as Martin Luther King Boulevard in honor of the civil rights icon. Sams devoted years of his life to fighting for racial equality in Texas.

How Kelton Sams sparked a civil rights movement on the island

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