ASU's MLK Commemoration

     In a steaming August Mid-day ceremony, a crowd of mostly ASU students gathered to mark the 50th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King's I have a Dream Speech.
      King did his final research for his dissertation at the ASU library, because he was not allowed to use the public libraries in segregated Montgomery 1954. 
    And King drew on fraternity brothers and former Morehouse professors who were then at ASU in leading the fledgling Montgomery Improvement Association. The MIA organized the Montgomery Bus boycott after Rosa Parks was arrested.

The ASU marching band at Noon today.

Rev. Robert Graetz offers an opening prayer.

.....I was cheered to see  84 year old Rev. Robert Graetz there with his wife Jean. When people ask if there were any white people who stood with Dr. King, people who were on the right side of history in Alabama during the civil rights movement, I refer to them.
     Virginia and Clifford Durr are another example, both now passed.