Like father, like son: Martin Luther King Jr. U-M speaker

Michigan Chronicle, March, 1997

Michigan Chronicle 03-11-1997 Like father, like son: Martin Luther King Jr. U-M speaker. By Barbara Orto SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE Martin Luther King III, son and namesake of slain civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.. was guest speaker recently at the University of Michigan on-campus week-long commemoration of the Martin Luther King Jr.

holiday. Addressing a noontime standing-room-only audience of students and adults at the University of Michigan Alumni Center, King reminded the student population that higher education was pivotal in support of the ongoing civil rights movement to relinquish old attitudes on racism, sexism and violence. Declaring that knowledge is power, King urged the students to thank those who have personally afforded them the...

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