Martin Luther King, Jr. - Travels

King receives an honorary degree and is commencement speaker at Morgan State College in Baltimore.

King participates in SCLC’s first full meeting of the year at Haven Methodist Church in Clarksdale; he later addresses the conference delegates at a mass meeting at First Baptist Church.

King attends the SCLC executive board meeting in Clarksdale, Mississippi.

King addresses the graduates during commencement at Agricultural, Mechanical and Normal (AM&N) College in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. King later attends the graduation ceremony of Ernest Green, Little Rock Central High School’s first black graduate.

King delivers the commencement address at Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach.

King speaks at the twenty-fifth commencement of Hughes College at St. John Baptist Church in Houston.

King, in Houston to deliver a graduation speech, attends a reception at the Erma Hughes Business College auditorium.

At Detroit’s Veterans’ Memorial Building, King delivers the keynote address for the “Christ, The Church, and Race” conference. He later speaks at Ecorse High School near Detroit.

King attends a luncheon in his honor at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Detroit and later preaches at St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral as part of the “Christ, The Church, and Race” conference, sponsored by the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan.

King addresses the biennial convention of the American Jewish Congress at the Carillon Hotel in Miami Beach.