Stanford Report, January 9, 2002
The life of Martin Luther King Jr. will be celebrated on campus this month with talks, community service work and "Freedom Train" rides. The African American civil rights leader was born Jan. 15, 1929, and assassinated April 4, 1968. King's birthday has been celebrated as a national holiday since 1986.
Events kick off Friday, Jan. 11, with a noontime talk at the Stanford Bookstore by Lorraine Johnson-Coleman, author of Just Plain Folks. At noon Tuesday, Jan. 15, King's birthday will be celebrated in Tresidder Union with entertainment provided by three singing groups and soul food offered for lunch. On Wednesday, Jan. 16, at 7 p.m., history Professor Clayborne Carson, director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Project, will discuss Faces of Freedom Summer, a photography exhibit on display in the Tresidder lounge. Herbert Randall took the photographs during the 1964 Mississippi Summer Project of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. The exhibit closes Feb. 28.
From Jan. 18 to 22, an "alternative ski trip" will take place with students performing community service at local schools, nursing homes and agencies. On Monday, Jan. 21, the day Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday is observed as a holiday, university students and staff will conduct teach-ins about King on special Caltrain "Freedom Trains" running from San Jose to San Francisco. Advance tickets will be sold in White Plaza and the university community is encouraged to board in Palo Alto.
On Wednesday, Jan. 23, at 7:30 p.m. in Cubberley Auditorium, a panel titled "Stanford: 1968 Revisited," will feature Black Student Union members and university administrators who were on campus in 1968. They include alumni Kenni Washington, Delores Mack, Charles Countee and Warren Hayman, former administrator Bill Wyman and community supporter Bob Hoover. On Thursday, Jan. 24, from 1 to 4 p.m., an open house for the Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Project will be held in Cypress Hall-D, Building 120. Events for the month conclude with an interfaith service at 10 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 27, in Memorial Church. Rabia Terri Harris from the Muslim Peace Fellowship will talk about Islam and nonviolence.
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