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New Haven Free Public Library ; Martin Luther King (first row, left) visited New Haven in 1964

Posted by Bud Mench Media Group -BMMG on January 13, 2022 at 15:00
May be an image of 4 people and text that says 'Recipientsof honorary degrees at today's Yale commencement pose on steps of Woodbridge Hall First row, left to right, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.; Kentucky Sen. John Sherman Cooper; W. Aver ell Harriman; Yale President Kingman Brewster; Lyn Fontanne, Philip C. Jessup and Winfred Garri son. Second row, left right, Philip H. Abelson, Edward S. Mason, Victor F. Weisskopf; Alfred Lunt, Sargent Shriver Jr.; Julian P. Boyd and Edouard A. Staekpole.'
#TBT: Martin Luther King (first row, left) visited New Haven in 1964 to receive an honorary LLD degree at Yale. This photo is from the June 15, 1964 New Haven Register.
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