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On March 2, 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke to a crowd of 3,000 at Marietta College. The title of his speech was “The Future of Integration,” and he called on the government to address the issues of poverty and housing. The original recording of King’s lecture is preserved in Special Collections.
The man would have been 92 years old on Friday.
But 54 years ago this coming April, he was assassinated.
Three days later, more than 400 Marietta residents and Marietta College students silently marched from Dawes Library at 1:30 p.m. and walked four abreast from Fifth Street to Putnam, down Putnam Street to East Muskingum Park. ....

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