On April 4, 2018, fifty years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., countless commemorative events took place throughout the country and the world, remembering the great man and the work he dedicated his life to. In Chicago, Professor Timuel D. Black sat with Bart Schultz (executive director of the Civic Knowledge Project) at Rockefeller Chapel on the campus of the University of Chicago to discuss Dr. King's legacy, his time in Chicago, and how they became friends.
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