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Martin Luther King, Jr. Week · January 13 - 19, 2024

Celebrating 40 years of MLK Week: Where Do We Go From Here?

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Dr. King dedicated his life to improving the educational access and opportunity given to every person, and at the University of Utah we continue to strive toward those values. Martin Luther King, Jr. Week (MLK Week) has become a platform for engaging students, faculty, trainees, staff, and community members in critical conversations around race and contemporary civil rights issues in America. All are welcome to get involved and participate!

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Celebrating 40 Years of MLK Week, Where do we go from here? January 13-19, 2024

“With Selma and the Voting Rights Act one phase of development in the civil rights revolution came to an end. A new phase opened, but few observers realized or were prepared for its implications.”

—Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?"

Celebrating 40 Years of MLK Week: Where Do We Go From Here?


January 13 - 19, 2024

In the winter of 1967, in a modest rented bungalow in the town of Ocho Rios in north Jamaica, the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote the first draft of “Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?” the last book he would complete during his lifetime. In it, Dr. King probed the difficult period following the day President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act in a special ceremony at the White House.  He recounts how a national backlash followed a decade of civil rights work—leading to the murder of civil rights workers and the acquittal of their killers, violent outbreaks in cities like Watts and Chicago, and “an emotional electoral issue” in many parts of the country that ushered in a number of voices who favored segregation.  

More than half a century after that moment, we are still asking the question, where do we go from here? As we celebrate 40 years of honoring Dr. King’s legacy with MLK Week at the U, the University of Utah is answering with an emphatic turn toward community.

Event details will be published as they are finalized.

Jan
13

MLK Jr. Day of Service

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9:00 AM

Jan
13

MLK Week 40th Anniversary Gala

Cleone Peterson Eccles Alumni House

7:00 PM

Jan
15

MLK Day Rally & March

East High School to Kingsbury Hall

2:30 PM

Jan
15

Step Afrika!

Kingsbury Hall

4:30 PM

Jan
16

Moving Forward by Looking Back

J. Willard Marriott Library, Gould Auditorium

11:00 AM

Jan
16

Community is Where We Go From Here

S.J. Quinney College of Law, Moot Courtroom

12:00 PM

Jan
16

Film Screening: "The Color Purple"

Larry H. Miller Megaplex Theatres at The Gateway

Jan
17

Care-Kit Assembly for Canyon School District

S.J. Quinney College of Law, Rooms 6619-6623

10:00 AM

Jan
17

Reframing the Conversation: Where Do We Go From Here?

Hinckley Institute of Politics (GC 2018) + Livestream

12:00 PM

Jan
18

Bridging the Gap Between Academic and Clinical Practice

College of Nursing Simulation Center

9:00 AM

Jan
18

MLK Week Keynote

12:00 PM

Jan
18

Dance Justice Deliverance: Dance Theatre of Harlem

Marriott Center for Dance

2:00 PM

Jan
18

MLK Economic Plenary & Reception

Garff Executive Education Building

4:30 PM

Jan
18

Utah vs. Oregon State Men's Basketball Game

Jon M. Huntsman Center

7:00 PM

Jan
19

Student Voices Rising: A Celebration of Activism

Unity Lounge

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