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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, January 16, 1993                   TAG: 9301160204
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A5   EDITION: STATE 
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DATELINE: EMORY                                LENGTH: Short

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CIVIL RIGHTS FIGURE TO BE SPEAKER AT E&H

Emmett C. Burns Jr., a candidate for executive director of the NAACP, will be the speaker Tuesday at Emory & Henry College's annual observance of the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr.

Burns will speak at 8 p.m. in Wiley Hall. Admission is free.

Burns was active in the civil rights movement in his native Mississippi where he worked with Medgar Evers, the state NAACP director who was slain. Burns later served as an NAACP field director in Mississippi and regional director for Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia.

He is a graduate of Jackson State University, and received a master of divinity degree from Virginia Union University in 1968, another master's at the Presbyterian School of Christian Education in Richmond, and a doctorate at the University of Pittsburgh in 1974.

A minister in the National Baptist Convention, USA, he has been a pastor at churches in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Mississippi and Maryland.

He announced his candidacy after Benjamin Hooks said he would retire this year as NAACP executive director.

- Southwest bureau

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