Lexington-Fayette Urban County
Human Rights Commission
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 4, 2023
CONTACT: Kathy Riley, Community Relations Coordinator
Phone: 859-252-4931
E-mail: [email protected]
Commission Sponsors T-Shirt Project at Harrison Elementary School in honor
of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and Human Rights Day
Harrison Elementary fifth-graders
will try their hand at T-shirt designing in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
and Human Rights Day as part of the Cultural Diversity Program sponsored by the
Lexington-Fayette Urban County Human Rights Commission (LFUCHRC) from 1:00 p.m.
to 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2001 at Harrison Elementary School, 161
Bruce Street.
The T-shirt design contest is co-sponsored by the Lexington Apartment
Association (LAA) and encourages the students to interpret what human rights and
civil rights means to them through a design that they paint on T-shirts. The
LFUCHRC and LAA provide all materials.
The students discuss Human Rights Day and Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in class
days before the contest. The students then begin making plans for their T-shirt
design. On Wednesday, Jan.10, each student will paint their design on a T-shirt
to be judged by members of the LAA. After which, the winner will receive a book
related to human rights/diversity. The t-shirts will be displayed on the first
floor of the Government Center at 200 E. Main St. until Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2001.
Human Rights Day is celebrated each year on Dec. 10, the anniversary of the
passing of the Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations in 1948. Martin
Luther King, Jr. Day is celebrated each year in observance of Dr. King’s birth
on Jan. 15, 1929.
Other upcoming activities for the Harrison Elementary Cultural Diversity Program
are a Native American Awareness presentation by Helen Danser on Wednesday, Jan.
31, 2001, a Black History Month presentation by Danville artist Oyo Fummilayo in
February, and Women’s History Month, Women in the Arts, presented by Lexington
artists Pat Gerhard, Marty Henton and Paula Whitaker in March 2001. To find out
more about these and other activities contact Kathy Riley at 859-252-4931, ext.
16, or via e-mail at [email protected].
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