Reflections of the dream 1975-1994, twenty years celebrating the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Summary: Bringing together speeches given at the Institute's annual King Day convocation, this book celebrates two decades of commitment by MIT to honoring the memory and furthering the work of Martin Luther King, Jr. In reading these speeches, one catches in reflection twenty years of turmoil and change, some positive (including an increasing number of speakers drawn from the ranks of MIT's African-American alumni/ae) but much negative, in which Dr. King's dream has been a continuing beacon for action. Speakers have included leaders who are prominent both nationally and in the local (Boston/Cambridge) community, in accordance with Dr. King's dual emphasis on global and local issues. The book closes with Coretta Scott King's twentieth-anniversary address in 1994. The 1995 speech by A. Leon Higginbotham is included as an appendix.

Record details

ISBN: 9780262231879
ISBN: 9780262731157 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0262231875
ISBN: 0262731150
ISBN: 9780585003252 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0585003254 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 309 pages) : illustrations
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electronic resource
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1996.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Martin Luther King, Jr., what does he mean to me? / Hubert E. Jones -- Reflection of the dream : past, present and future / Walter J. Leonard -- The dream : education is freedom / Muriel S. Snowden -- Keeping the dream alive / Jerome H. Holland -- The dream : when will we overcome? / Melvin G. Brown -- Do you remember? / Anthony C. Campbell -- King : what progress since the dream? / LeRoy Attles, Samuel D. Proctor -- The legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the new movement for justice / Charles S. Brown -- Rekindling the spirit of Martin Luther King, Jr. in a time of retrenchment / Price M. Cobb, A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. -- The legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. : the path to human dignity and freedom / John R. Bryant, Helen G. Edmonds -- The unfinished agenda of Martin Luther King, Jr. in the context of the eighties / John H. Adams [and others] -- Living the dream : to believe and achieve / Shirley Ann Jackson -- Introspection, outreach and inclusion : achieving pluralism at MIT / Samuel D. Proctor -- From dreams to reality / Elizabeth B. Rawlins -- On behalf of justice / Gregory C. Chisholm, S.J. -- The dream and hope, the nightmare of reality : closing the gap for our youth / Nikki Giovanni -- Linking the civil rights movement to MIT and Dr. Kijng's dream : reality-- closing the gap / Benjamin L. Hooks -- The dream and reality : closing the gap / Margaret A. Burnham -- Where do we go from here : chaos or community? / William H. Gray III -- The movement for economic and social justice: 1994 and beyond / Coretta Scott King -- Martin Luther King's open letter to Newt Gingrich / A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Restrictions unspecified
Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
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