A pretty good crowd despite the cold for Tulsa’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade. Many waited in their cars until almost the minute the parade passed by, but several thousand still braved the bitter cold for the annual event. Parade Director Carmen Pettie says this year’s theme is ‘One race, the human race.’ She says the theme is especially important this year given recent events that show a racial divide continues in America all these years after the civil rights leader’s death.
Tulsa’s annual MLK Day Parade is billed as the largest in the region, with more than 30 floats and as many as three thousand marchers.