"The Kings at Yale": An exhibition in the Sterling Memorial Library Nave
Monday, 9 a.m. – Friday, 5 p.m.
Event Info
"The Kings at Yale": An exhibition in the Sterling Memorial Library Nave
Jan. 13 – Feb. 28, 2025
Sterling Memorial Library, The Nave
120 High Street
New Haven, CT
06511

Visits to Yale by Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King are documented in Yale Library’s Manuscripts and Archives collections.
In 1959, Dr. King was invited to speak on “The Future of Integration.” He returned to Yale in 1964 to receive an honorary degree–he had been released on bail from the St. Augustine, Florida, jail just two days before. Coretta Scott King was named the first Frances Blanshard Fellow at Yale in 1969. She spoke to a standing-room-only crowd in Woolsey Hall on the role of campus unrest in addressing social injustices.
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Yale University Library
Open To:
General Public, All Ages