{"id":22482,"date":"2013-07-11T17:16:12","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T21:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=22482"},"modified":"2013-07-11T17:17:01","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T21:17:01","slug":"naacp-plans-march-on-washington-bus-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=22482","title":{"rendered":"NAACP Plans \u2018March On Washing- ton\u2019 Bus Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY IRIS B. HOLTON<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sentinel City Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Florida State Conference of the NAACP is currently planning bus trips for citizens wishing to participate in the historic \u201cMarch On Washington\u201d anniversary. The buses will leave from five cities in Florida.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ms. Pat Spencer, <\/strong>Area Director, Florida State Conference NAACP said, \u201cThis is an opportunity for those who went to Washington D. C., 50 years ago to relive those memories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is also an opportunity for who didn\u2019t attend to experience the event. We are encouraging parents to expose their children to this positive and historic event.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong> Ms. Spencer<\/strong> said if enough people commit to making the trip, buses will be leaving from the cities of Tampa, Gainesville, Miami, Lake Placid, and Pensacola. The buses will leave on the afternoon of Friday, August 23<sup>rd<\/sup>, and arrive in Washington, D. C. by 7 a.m., on Saturday, August 24<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>The visitors will attend the rally and then spend the night at the Holiday Inn, in Laurel, Maryland. They will leave Washington on Sunday, August 25<sup>th<\/sup>, and return to their respective cities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ms. Spencer<\/strong> further stated that each bus will transport 54 people to the rally. \u201cWe must get enough people to fill the buses before we sign the contract. We are working with a deadline of July 19<sup>th<\/sup>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anyone wishing to obtain more information about the proposed trip can contact <strong>Ms. Spencer<\/strong> immediately at pspencerfla@aol.com.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor The Florida State Conference of the NAACP is currently planning bus trips for citizens wishing to participate in the historic \u201cMarch On Washington\u201d anniversary. The buses will leave from five cities in Florida. Ms. Pat Spencer, Area Director, Florida State Conference NAACP said, \u201cThis is an opportunity for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}