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King delivers "What Is Man?" at Fisk Memorial Chapel; visits Vanderbilt University

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February 19, 1956

At 11 A.M., King gives a sermon entitled “What Is Man?” at Fisk Memorial Chapel in Nashville as part of Fisk University’s Religious Emphasis Week. While in Nashville, King visits Vanderbilt University and concludes that 90 percent of the white students he speaks with are willing to accept integration.