WORCESTER, Mass. – The Holy Cross community will celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, Jan. 15, from 12 p.m. - 4 p.m. in the lobby of the Hogan Campus Center. Sponsored by Student Affairs, the events are free and open to the public.
Videos depicting the life of Dr. King will be shown continuously from 12 p.m. - 3 p.m. These films will be followed by student readings from 3 p.m.- 4 p.m. Various students will continuously read aloud the significant speeches of Dr. King in 10-minute intervals. The following speeches are scheduled to be read: "I Have a Dream"; Dr. King's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech (1964); and Dr. King's eulogy for the martyred children in Birmingham, Ala.
There will also be a display of books by and about Dr. King at the event, courtesy of the College's Dinand Library.
Martin Luther King Jr. was an eloquent black Baptist minister who led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968.
Holy Cross Celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. Day
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