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VIDEO: A Local Poet's Civil Rights Tribute
LaVerne Byrd Smith reads her poem, "In America, Can Dreams Come True?"
by Produced by Jason Roop
When Martin Luther King Jr. died in 1968, schoolteacher LaVerne Byrd Smith wrote a poem in his honor, interpreting his "I have a Dream" speech from the 1963 March on Washington.
Smith, who is retired, was a civil rights activist herself in the 1960s, when more than 200 Virginia Union University students marched from campus to downtown for a lunch counter sit-in at Thalhimers.
Smith has resurrected and renamed her poem "In America, Can Dreams Come True?" in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. and the inauguration of the country's first black president.
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