Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Martin Luther King, Jr. visits Stanford (1967) to deliver a speech on poverty and racism, “The Other America."
Visit MLK Day to visit past events at Stanford and the surrounding communities.
Stanford continues to honor King's legacy through the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, which preserves his works and fosters education on civil rights. Initiatives like the Liberation Curriculum provide resources for schools to inspire understanding and activism. The King Papers Project, an effort that started in 1985 when King’s widow, Coretta Scott King, asked Stanford historian Clayborne Carson to compile and edit MLK’s speeches, sermons, published and unpublished works, and letters into a chronological series of books. The King Papers provide unprecedented insight into Dr. King’s mindset throughout his life, revealed in the trove of public and personal documents he left behind
