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Crowd honors King with march, hymns
'We're celebrating what he did for us'
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Participants in the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day march make their way toward Gainesville Middle School for a celebration of the holiday. - photo by Tom Reed
More than 200 people took to the streets Monday afternoon in Gainesville to remember the dream and legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Crowd members sang hymns at the top of their lungs as they marched from the Hall County Health Department on Athens Highway to Gainesville Middle School on Community Way. Families poured out of houses to stand and wave as the marchers passed by. People lined the roadways holding their phones in the air to take photos.