Button: "I Have a Dream," 1968. Courtesy of Frank da Cruz, '71GS, '76E
Among the startling succession of events that rocked the nation in the spring of 1968 - and exacerbated tensions on campus - was the assassination of civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4 in Memphis, Tennessee. At Columbia, Chaplain John D. Cannon organized a University memorial service to take place in St. Paul's Chapel on April 9.
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