The Room is open
Monday - Friday, 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday 9 a.m. - 10 p.m.

The exhibited items are in locked cases. To view items more closely please inquire in Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center on the 5th floor.

Stride Toward Freedom. 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.