The bicentennial celebrations at the Queens Borough Public Library on September 17. 1987. clearly proved that today. the Constitution is still truly a document by the people. for the people. Simultaneous readins were held across the borough of 2 million residents. The range of elected officials. community leaders and involved citizens who came to their neighborhood libraries to take a turn at reading was indeed representative of the multicultural spirit of Queens. where one out of every three persons is foreign born. Readers at one branch library represented at least nine different ethnic groups. at other libraries. participants ranged from veterans of foreign wars to schoolchildren in a remedial reading class. Rabbis and ministers. members of community planning boards and a host of civic organizations read aloud during the afternoon.
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