Gaidi Finnie, Operations Director of San Diego’s Bayview Baptist Church is the organizational force behind the a photograph exhibit celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Movement. He is featured with one of the images, featuring Dr. M. L. King (center), that will be in the upcoming exhibition and is wearing gloves to protect the image as it was moved in for the photo.
The Bayview Baptist Church in Encanto, a neighborhood of San Diego, will be hosting a photographic exhibition at the M.L.King Center on the church grounds prior to the installation of a permanent area that will be the new home of the San Diego African American Museum of Fine Art. Twenty-three images of civil rights leaders will anchor the exhibition, “In Our Lifetime…” that will run from February 1, 2014 through February 28, 2014. The photo exhibition commemorates the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The address of the M.L. King Center is 6134 Benson Ave., San Diego, CA 92114.