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Hear Dr. King explain why he donated his collection to Boston University. Taken from a press conference on September 11, 1964.

 

Martin Luther King Jr.: Stride Toward Freedom

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This exhibition explores King's rise to national prominence from his early days as a young pastor called to the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama and his involvement with the Montgomery Improvement Association and its history-making bus boycott up through his assassination as graphically recorded in LIFE magazine. There is correspondence from Rosa Parks, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Nat King Cole, to name but a few.

Located in the Martin Luther King Room on the third floor of Mugar Memorial Library. The Exhibit can be viewed Monday - Friday
9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

   
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