By Terry James
BLOOMINGTON – Tickets went on sale this week for the popular Evergreen Cemetery Walk.
It takes place the first two weekends of October.
Candace Summers is the Director of the walk and says one of the people you’ll learn about died in 1990 and worked to end segregation in the community. Her name is Ethel Murray.
“She did a lot for this community helping to uplift people (and) relationships,” said Summers. “She’s really going to have some stories about overcoming those challenges of racism and segregation and showing how she made a life for herself here.”
Summers says instead of running from the Ku Klux Klan, she befriended the young son of one of the Klansman in order to improve race relations.
Tickets can be purchased at the McLean County Museum of History.
Terry James can be reached at terry@wjbc.com.
