Martin Luther King celebrations Northwestern will commemorate the birthday of the late Martin Luther King Jr. with special events on both campuses.
All events are free and open to the public.
Two events sponsored by the Northwestern University Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Committee will be held on the Evanston campus. The video documents the 1963 racially motivated bombing of a Birmingham, Ala., church which resulted in the deaths of four African-American girls. Wilkins has written for the New York Times, Washington Post and Washington Star. While on the editorial staff of the Post, he shared a Pulitzer Prize in 1972 with Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein and editorial cartoonist Herblock for Watergate coverage. The lecture will be held at McCormick Auditorium, Norris University Center.