Advertisment
Your Story
King, Jr. spoke at UW-Fox Valley in 1960s
More than 45 years ago, Martin Luther King, Jr. stopped in the Fox Cities.
The civil rights leader spent a day in Wisconsin on May 12, 1967, speaking at three different spots, including the UW-Fox Valley.
An overflow crowd of about 600 people went to what was then the UW-Fox Valley Center. King had won the Nobel Peace Prize three years earlier, and the tickets sold out quickly, for the 375-seat fine arts theater. Another 225 watched the speech on TVs, in the cafeteria.
King spoke out against the Vietnam War, saying it was distracting from the civil rights movement. He also called on the federal government to wipe out slums in large urban areas, by relocating people to places like the Fox Valley.
Dr. King was assassinated less than a year later, in April of 1968.
The civil rights leader spent a day in Wisconsin on May 12, 1967, speaking at three different spots, including the UW-Fox Valley.
An overflow crowd of about 600 people went to what was then the UW-Fox Valley Center. King had won the Nobel Peace Prize three years earlier, and the tickets sold out quickly, for the 375-seat fine arts theater. Another 225 watched the speech on TVs, in the cafeteria.
King spoke out against the Vietnam War, saying it was distracting from the civil rights movement. He also called on the federal government to wipe out slums in large urban areas, by relocating people to places like the Fox Valley.
Dr. King was assassinated less than a year later, in April of 1968.
