1983 9th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration

MLK Day march at the Student Center, 1983. Front row, left to right: Paul E. Gray (MIT President), Priscilla K. Gray (MIT Public Service Center co-founder), A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. (Presiding Judge, U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review

Theme

Rekindling the Spirit of Martin Luther King, Jr. in a Time of Retrenchment

Keynote

A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.
Judge, U.S. Federal District Court, Philadelphia, PA

Price C. Cobbs
Senior Partner, Pacific Management Systems1983 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecturer, MIT

INVITATION

Courtesy of the MIT Black History Project

VIDEO

TRANSCRIPT

[PAUL]GRAY: Good afternoon. It’s a privilege for me to welcome you here today, once again, for the Institute’s 9th annual memorial observance, honoring the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We come together, each year at this season, to honor this great leader for the lessons he taught us about justice and injustice, about human values and human relations.

It seems to me that we need now, more than ever, to pay heed to those lessons. Why now more than ever?