Reflections of the Dream, 1975-1994
Subtitle: Twenty-One Years Celebrating the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: October 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780262231879
Subjects: Human rights; Other prose: from c 1900 -; c 1970 to c 1980; c 1980 to c 1990; c 1990 to c 2000; Biography & Autobiography; Sociology; Biography/Autobiography; USA; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; People of Color; Religious; 1929-1968; 20th century; African Americans; Civil rights; Civil rights movements; History; Jr.,; King, Martin Luther,; Philosophy; United States
Description: Bringing together speeches given at the Institute's annual King Day convocation, this book celebrates two decades of commitment by MIT to honoring the memory and furthering the work of Martin Luther King, Jr. In reading these speeches, one catches in reflection twenty years of turmoil and change, some positive (including an increasing number of speakers drawn from the ranks of MIT's African-American alumni/ae) but much negative, in which Dr. King's dream has been a continuing beacon for action.

Speakers have included leaders who are prominent both nationally and in the local (Boston/Cambridge) community, in accordance with Dr. King's dual emphasis on global and local issues. The book closes with Coretta Scott King's twentieth-anniversary address in 1994. The 1995 speech by A. Leon Higginbotham is included as an appendix.