Originally Posted: January 6, 2017
Dream Week Schedule
January 16 – 28
- Monday, January 16
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Parade
10 a.m. | Begins @ MLK Blvd & Holmes Street - Tuesday, January 24
Film Screening: Standing on My Sister’s Shoulder 6 p.m. | HTSC
Sponsored by Women & LGBT Center - Wednesday, January 25
Real Talk
12:30 p.m. | HTSC
Sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs and International Student & Scholar Services - Thursday, January 26
SMU’s Commemorative Unity Walk 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. | Starts at HTSC Commons - Saturday, January 28
MLK Service Day
10:30 – 3:30 p.m. | HTSC Ballroom Sign up at www.smu.edu/volunteer Free Brunch + Transportation
Co-sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs, Community Engagement & Leadership Center, SMU Panhellenic, SMU NRHH
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at SMU
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke to a standing-room-only audience in SMU’s McFarlin Auditorium on March 17, 1966.
The letter of invitation was sent to Dr. King by then-SMU Student Senate Vice President Bert Moore on behalf of the Student Senate. Moore, a theology student, had traveled to Montgomery, Ala., to participate in a civil rights march with Dr. King. He was introduced to the crowd by Students’ Association Academic Committee Chair Charles Cox.
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• Hear or download Dr. King’s speech at SMU  • Transcript of Dr. King’s speech at SMU • SMU Student Senate invitation to Dr. King • Transcript of introduction of Dr. King by Cox • Coverage by the SMU student newspaper |
| Dr. King spoke in SMU’s McFarlin Auditorium. The recording of Dr. King’s speech was made with a hand-held recorder brought to McFarlin Auditorium that day by Gene Halaburt of Dallas, who graciously provided a copy to SMU. The people pictured behind Dr. King are (left to right): Bernard Lee, special assistant to Dr. King; Charles Cox, the chair of the Students’ Association Academic Committee (now called the Student Senate); Bert Moore, vice president of the SMU Students’ Association; and Sanford Coon, Perkins School of Theology student. | |