MIT Spotlight: Martin Luther King Day, 2023

MLK illustration by José-Luis Olivares — Illustration: José-Luis Olivares for MIT News. Edited photos: Rowland Scherman (foreground); courtesy MIT Museum (background)
MIT News Spotlight (15 January 2023) illustration by José-Luis Olivares, based on a photograph by Rowland Scherman taken during the 1963 "I Have a Dream” speech. Background photographs show MLK Day marches on the MIT campus, ranging from 1968 to 2016, and are courtesy of the MIT Museum.

Timeline: 2020s

Career: Community

Object: Image

Collection: Activism, Illustrations, Latinx and Latin America(n), Martin Luther King, Jr., MIT Spotlight, Rising Voices 1995-Present

External Link: https://web.mit.edu/archive/spotlight/celebrating-martin-luther-king-jr/

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