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Scarborough Civic Centre Square on flickr, on photopia.

I have been pleasantly surprised with response to this photo.

First, Josh over at Torontoist dropped this into the photoTO file with the headline of Stand Up, Scarborough.

Second, over on my flickr, the above-for-me average number of photo views and comments for my posting there does indeed encourage me there exists a visual appetite for these kind of montage stitched together photographs.

On thursday, march 14, 1968, exactly three week’s before his assasination, martin luther king jr met with 78 nonblack minority leaders at paschal’s motor lodge in the heart of black atlanta.

At that meeting were wallace ‘mad bear’ anderson from the iroquois confederation in upstate new york, a deputy of cesar chavez, tillie walker and rose crow flies high of north dakota’s plains tribe and dennis banks of the anishinabes, and peggy terry who despite being raised in a white supremacist ku klux klan kentucky family, she joined dr. martin luther king jr in his poor people’s campaign.

Attending that historic meeting in 1968 was Richard Ismael Norman.

Photographed above on the evening of tuesday february 21, 2006 at fran’s restaurant in downtown toronto, ismael kindly shared his memories with me of that day and his meeting dr. king and the other poverty nee civil rights leaders of the 1960’s.