King conducts interview at Kansas City's Pickwick Hotel; delivers "Progress in the Area of Race Relations" at St. Stephen Baptist Church
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April 11, 1957
King flies to Kansas City where he is interviewed by local reporters at the Pickwick Hotel. At St. Stephen Baptist Church King delivers “Progress in the Area of Race Relations” at an NAACP fund raiser. Following the speech King meets with a group of local ministers at the church.