Former SMU students remember MLK Jr.'s inspiring 1966 speech on campus
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a powerful speech on justice at SMU's packed McFarlin Auditorium in 1966.
MLK sign finds a home at Second District
Four years after it was first proposed, a large sign honoring Martin Luther King Jr. finally has a permanent home inside the main entrance to Second District Elementary School. “We chose to put in our ...
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Utah was the last state to recognize MLK Day, after Salt Lake City honored King by renaming 600 South.
While MLK Day was approved as a federal holiday in 1983, Utah was the last state to recognize it, almost 20 years later. In 1985, Terry Lee Williams—Utah's first African American state ...