Martin Luther King, Jr. Week · January 13 - 19, 2024
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!
“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?"
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.
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9:00 AM
Cleone Peterson Eccles Alumni House
7:00 PM
East High School to Kingsbury Hall
2:30 PM
Kingsbury Hall
4:30 PM
J. Willard Marriott Library, Gould Auditorium
11:00 AM
S.J. Quinney College of Law, Moot Courtroom
12:00 PM
Larry H. Miller Megaplex Theatres at The Gateway
S.J. Quinney College of Law, Rooms 6619-6623
10:00 AM
Hinckley Institute of Politics (GC 2018) + Livestream
12:00 PM
College of Nursing Simulation Center
9:00 AM
12:00 PM
Marriott Center for Dance
2:00 PM
Garff Executive Education Building
4:30 PM
Jon M. Huntsman Center
7:00 PM
Unity Lounge
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