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Ocoee MLK Day Parade and Celebration
January 15 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am
Free
The City of Ocoee’s 16th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Unity Parade and Celebration will be held on Monday, January 15, 2024 at 10 a.m. The parade begins at Citrus Elementary School, 87 North Clarke Road and ends at the parking lot of the West Oaks Mall on Clarke Road. The public is invited to attend a post-parade celebration that will take place in the West Oaks Mall food court at 11 a.m. Organizations may register for the parade by visiting https://www.ocoee.org/MLK.
Bishop Derrick L. McRae, Senior Pastor of The Experience Christian Center, will be the keynote speaker at the post-parade celebration. An Ocoee resident, Bishop McRae is a motivational speaker, talk show host, drummer, radio personality and choir director. The Experience Christian Center, under the leadership of Bishop McRae, has served over 148,000 community members through various outreach efforts.
The celebration program will include presenting of the colors by the Ocoee High School JROTC, Ocoee resident Sherrí Gladney will sing the National Anthem and Innovation Montessori Ocoee’s Show Choir will perform. In addition, sixth-grader Olivia Guinn, winner of last year’s City of Ocoee Black History Month Essay Contest, will recite her award-winning essay titled “Remembering the Victims of the Ocoee Massacre.”
For more information, please visit www.ocoee.org or call 407-905-3100.
