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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
2012 Fellowship Breakfast
On Monday, January 16, 2012, Bone McAllester Norton will host its eleventh annual Fellowship Breakfast to celebrate the memory and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The celebration will be held at the Hutton Hotel in Nashville beginning at 7:30 a.m.
This is an especially important event for our law firm. We founded Bone McAllester Norton in 2002 as a new firm, to put into practice a set of core principles and values to which we are unfailingly committed. We adopted the phrase "Law – Life – Passion" as a shorthand way of expressing those principles. One value about which the firm is passionate is diversity, and we have created a law firm that reflects the diversity of our clients – people of different idealistic, socioeconomic, educational, ethnic, racial and religious backgrounds. Rather than simply closing our offices on the MLK holiday, we decided to honor Dr. King's memory by inviting family members, friends and clients to join us for breakfast. We spend this time together to reflect upon Dr. King, his legacy, and the contributions he made to our world and to each of us personally.
We are honored to have Rev. Dr. Bernard LaFayette, Jr. as our featured speaker this year. Dr. LaFayette is an ordained minister, a longtime civil rights activist, organizer, and an authority on nonviolent social change. He co-founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1960, and he was a core leader of the civil rights movement in Nashville, Tennessee in 1960 and in Selma, Alabama in 1965. He directed the Alabama Voter Registration Project in 1962, and he was appointed by Martin Luther King, Jr. to be national program administrator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and national coordinator of the 1968 Poor People's Campaign.
Dr. LaFayette is the Distinguished Senior Scholar-in-Residence at Emory University, in the Graduate Division of Religion and Candler School of Theology. Prior to his tenure at Emory, Dr. LaFayette was the Director of the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies at the University of Rhode Island. He has served as Chairperson of the Consortium on Peace Research, Education and Development; Director of the PUSH Excel Institute; and minister of the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Tuskegee, Alabama. Dr. LaFayette earned his B.A. from American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville, Tennessee and his Ed.M., C.A.S. and Ed.D. from Harvard University. He has served on the faculties of Columbia Theological Seminary in Atlanta, Georgia, and Alabama State University in Montgomery, Alabama, where he was Dean of the Graduate School.
As part of our program, we will, as always, open the floor and encourage comments by anyone who wishes to talk about Dr. King's legacy.
On this page, you will find several links: to information on Rev. Dr. Bernard LaFayette, to photographs of previous MLK Fellowship Breakfasts, and to a video slideshow recalling the life of Dr. King. You will also see a link that allows you to RSVP online. We know that some of you have already contacted us with your RSVP. If so, we look forward to seeing you on the 16th and wanted to share this additional information with you. Also see the link to a map and directions to the Hutton Hotel, which is located at 1808 West End Avenue in Nashville. Parking is available in the Hutton Hotel's parking garage, and valet parking is also available.
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Bone McAllester Norton PLLC
511 Union Street, Suite 1600 | Nashville, TN 37219
(615) 238-6300
131 Saundersville Road, Suite 130 | Hendersonville, TN 37075
(615) 822-8822
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