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By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Speaker Bob Weinberg said many of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s goals for civil rights and political rights have been accomplished, but much still remains to be done to achieve his goals of economic justice and world peace.
He was speaking at the Sixth Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Celebration at The Theatre in Washington last Sunday.
Sponsored by the Julia E. Boddie Scholarship Committee, the program also included songs, prayers and a retrospective on the life of Dr. King created by Nan Butler-Roberts and enacted by many people from the community.
Mr. Weinberg noted that Virginia was the first state to elect a black governor, L. Douglas Wilder. He said before his inauguration at lieutenant governor, Mr. Wilder spoke at the John Marshall Hotel in Richmond. He noted that in the past the only way he could have entered the hot^l was as a waiter.
Mr. Weinberg said when he came to Virginia in 1960 there were four sets of voter records, white voters who had paid the poll tax, black voters who had paid the p^ll tax, white voters who had not paid the poll tax, and black voters who had not paid the poll tax. Those who had not paid the poll tax could
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