Eugene community members met up and spoke at Wayne Morse Free Speech Plaza in a solidarity rally and vigil for 17-year-old Floridian Trayvon Martin, who was shot and killed by a neighborhood watchman on Feb 26 in Sanford, Florida.
A solidarity rally and vigil for Trayvon Martin met in the Wayne Morse Free Speech Plaza outside the Lane County Courthouse. Martin was shot and killed by a neighborhood watchman on February 26, in Sanford, Florida after a confrontation during his return from the store to get Skittles and Iced Tea. (Nate Barrett/Oregon Daily Emerald)
Henry Luvert, president of the NAACP Eugene-Springfield branch, speaks at a rally in downtown Eugene where community members marched to in solidarity of Trayvon Martin. (Nate Barrett/Oregon Daily Emerald)
Eric Richardson, a Lane Community College student, speaks to community members outside of the Campbell Senior Center as they prepare to march to Wayne Morse Free Speech Plaza. Richardson, standing with his family members beside him, would go on to explain that the Cambell Senior Center was neighborhood of the African American community in the 1940s and 1950s.(Nate Barrett/Oregon Daily Emerald)
Community members march across 7th Avenue toward the Lane County Courthouse where they will be participating in a rally for Trayvon Martin. (Nate Barrett/Oregon Daily Emerald)
