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This Martin Luther King Jr. Day Weekend, members of the Dartmouth College community are reflecting on the speech the civil rights icon gave at Dartmouth 0n May 23, 1962. The visit was a front-page ...
As the University of Michigan marks Martin Luther King Jr. Day with a symposium of events lasting through March, a visit from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. himself to the Ann Arbor campus was nearly ...
History came to Kean University (then called Newark State Teachers College) on Feb. 9, 1961, when civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. visited the Union campus and gave a speech titled ...
KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) — For 30 years, a recording of Martin Luther King Jr’s speech at Western Michigan University was lost ...
University President Mary Sue Coleman also alluded to King’s visit to the University in her 2008 address at Hill Auditorium during the Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium. According to the Symposium’s ...
The reply was, "Martin Luther King Jr." When my 50th Bucknell class reunion arrived in 2008, I decided to revisit the University. I wanted to confirm my memory of that event, and so I made it a point ...
Almost four years after his “I Have a Dream” speech, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. arrived at a tent-in demonstration in ...
A new historical plaque at Bowdoin College will commemorate a May 1964 visit to campus by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and, specifically, an informal roundtable discussion with King attended by students ...
As the University of Michigan marks Martin Luther King Jr. Day with a symposium of events lasting through March, a visit from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. himself to the Ann Arbor campus was nearly ...
An archive of the Western Herald’s coverage of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dec. 18, 1963, visit to Western Michigan University. In 1968, King was shot and killed in Memphis, Tennessee.