Kaniho 1974 #4

Left to right: Moanikeala Akaka; Raymond Pae Galdeira, leader of The Hawaiians; Mary-Mae Unea, chaplain for The Hawaiians; Sonny Kaniho; and Jim Leatherer, a civil rights activist who famously walked on crutches the entire 54-mile length of the Selma-to-Montgomery march in support of voting rights led by Dr. Martin Luther King. It isn’t known how he came to been in Waimea on that morning in 1974.


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