Annual celebrations of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy at MIT

2011 37th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration

Throughout spring 2011, MIT celebrated its 150th anniversary with a series of symposia, performances, exhibitions, and landmark events. The Human Diversity and Social Order Forum Series examined how the inherent and occasionally difficult diversity of hum

Theme

Excellence is a Shared Path: Working Together for Justice and the Quality of Life

Keynote

Roland Martin
Award-winning journalist, political analyst and CNN contributor

MLK Leadership Awardees

Weslee S. Glenn PhD ’13
MIT graduate student

Cheryl Charles
Fiscal officer, Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT

Debroah Hodges-Pabón
Personnel and Operations Administrator, Microsystems Technology Laboratory (MTL), MIT

Minority Introduction to Engineering and Science (MITES)
A rigorous six-week MIT residential academic enrichment program for promising high school seniors

Exhibit

A civil rights display is up in Lobby 10. The display is put up each year by students who took the Martin Luther King Jr. design seminar over IAP. Robert McQueen, The Tech, 2011

MLK Diversity Dinner 2011: MIT Asian Dance Team Showcase

Epitaph of Twilight

Spinnng Song

Press

The drive for diversity
March 18, 2011

MLK Leadership Awards honor three individuals, one program
February 11, 2011

King’s legacy celebrated at MIT
February 10, 2011

37th annual Martin Luther King Jr. breakfast today
February 9, 2011

Building blocks
February 8, 2011

CNN's Martin to deliver keynote address at MLK Jr. breakfast
January 31, 2011

Quotes

“Neither MIT nor my city of origin is the best indicator of my success, ability or potential…“[m]y success is attributed to the collective influence of many people who have shaped my life.”

Pierre Fuller SM '09, PhD candidate- Graduate student speaker at the 37th Annual MLK Celebration

CNN's Roland Martin, at annual MLK Jr. breakfast, says the civil rights leader’s example of personal commitment and nonviolence lives on

David L. Chandler, MIT News Office | February 10, 2011

In his keynote address at MIT’s 37th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast Celebration on Wednesday, CNN analyst Roland Martin said that King’s spirit, idealism and commitment to personal action are alive today, as exemplified by the protests that have erupted on the streets of Egypt over the last few weeks.

“The folks in Egypt are trying nonviolence” in their bid for freedom and democracy, and in doing so are following in King's footsteps, Martin said. Emphasizing the important role that young people can play, including the many students gathered at the breakfast, Martin pointed out that it is “the young folks in Egypt driving this entire movement.” He said that this impassioned effort by the young echoes the work of King, who, when he was elected to lead the incipient civil rights movement in Montgomery, Ala., in the 1950s, was still in his twenties — as were many of the other leaders of the movement at the time. These young people, Martin said, were willing to take chances that many of their elders feared to take.

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