VICKSBURG — For the first time in a decade, Vicksburg will not have a Martin Luther King Jr. parade.
Ten-year MLK parade organizer Sylvester Walker tells the Vicksburg Post he had made an agreement with the city of Vicksburg to take over the parade, but says city officials didn’t follow through with the agreement.
Vicksburg Mayor George Flaggs Jr. says he first met with Walker about the parade on Monday, but Flaggs didn’t think the parade would be a project the city would solely take on. He says that in order for the parade to grow, he thinks a committee should take it over, making it a community project.
Walker says there will be a parade next year, and that he plans to be more involved.
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