The Tallahassee Branch NAACP with the Tallahassee-Leon County Council on Culture and Arts dedicated a new civil rights mural on Saturday. The mural is located on West Brevard Street.
- The mural showcases influential leaders and shows symbols of Tallahassee’s civil rights history.
- The ribbon-cutting was held at the NAACP office in Tallahassee.
- Watch the video below to learn more about the artist behind the project.
BROADCAST TRANSCRIPT:
The Tallahassee Branch NAACP unveiled their Legacy in Motion mural capturing the history of the civil rights movement and activism for African Americans here in Tallahassee, spanning across decades. This mural is part of the mural make over project that has spanned across the capital city and Delaitre Holligner who wrote the proposal for the mural said this was monumental for our community,
“It shows just how much this neighborhood means to people in this community,” said Delaitre Holligner, the vice president of the Tallahassee NAACP. It shows just how much these individuals meant to people in this community, and it means that we’ve been successful in our efforts which is to ensure that their legacies live on.”…