NASA Astronaut Mae Jemison was welcomed to the 22nd Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast by Mike Hightower, incoming chair of the Jacksonville Regional Chamber of Commerce. Jemison was the first African-American woman in space and the keynote speaker at the event. Mayor John Peyton was scheduled to attend, but sent his greetings by telephone from Washington, D.C. where he is meeting President-elect Barack Obama to make Jacksonville’s case for the proposed federal economic stimulus package.
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