Martin Luther King, Jr. - Travels

In the afternoon King delivers a sermon for G. W. Smiley’s 54th anniversary as pastor of Elizabeth Baptist Church in Union Springs, Alabama.

At 9 A.M. King leaves Montgomery, flying first to Atlanta and then on to Washington.

In the evening King dines with faculty members of Lycoming College, Williamsport, Pennsylvania. He later participates in a question and answer period with students.

King accepts an award from the Massachusetts Council for Civil Rights at Boston’s Freedom House. 

In the evening King addresses a “Summit Conference on Registration and Voting” at St. Mark AME Zion Church in Durham.

King preaches at Trinity Baptist Church in Pontiac, Michigan.

At Second Baptist Church in Los Angeles, King addresses an NAACP rally against job discrimination.

King speaks on “The Montgomery, Alabama Story” at the Walnut Hills High School Auditorium on behalf of the Jewish Community Center Forum in Cincinnati.

At Orchestra Hall in Chicago, King delivers “What Is Man?” for the Sunday Evening Club.

At the Town and Country Club of Brooklyn, New York, King addresses the Guardians Association of the New York City Police Department. On behalf of the Guardians, Governor Averell Harriman presents King with an Annual Achievement Award.