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Wanda Battle to speak about civil rights, King Jr.
Darren Iozia
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Wanda Battle, tour director of the church where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. used to preach, will be the guest speaker for an Illinois College-hosted virtual lecture titled “Human Rights and You.”
The program will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday.
Battle will discuss King’s work, the civil rights movement, and the history of Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. A question-and-answer session will follow her talk.
To register for the event, go to ic.edu/wandabattleconvo.