{"id":1159,"date":"2018-02-06T13:51:05","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T18:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/mlk50\/?page_id=1159"},"modified":"2020-06-25T09:14:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T13:14:15","slug":"commencement-2018-copy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/mlk50\/","title":{"rendered":"Commemoration of 50th Anniversary of MLK speech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/mlk50\" target=\"_self\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/mlk50\/files\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-28-at-4.00.22-PM.png\" alt=\"SJU MLK 50 logo\" title=\"Screen Shot 2018-03-28 at 4.00.22 PM\" itemprop=\"image\"  \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\tMenu\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<ul id=\"menu-main-menu-2\"><li id=\"menu-item-1323\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/mlk50\/\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-1812\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/mlk50\/live-stream\/\">A Morning with John Lewis<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-1711\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/mlk50\/eventrecaps\/\">Event Recaps<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-1713\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/mlk50\/galleries\/\">Photo &#038; Video Galleries<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-1709\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/mlk50\/news\/\">News &#038; Updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\t\n\t<h3>\n\t\tSJU Commemorates the 50th Anniversary of MLK&#8217;s Campus Visit\n\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t<h3>&#8220;Our destinies are tied together.&#8221;<\/h3>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<p>&#8211; Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., &#8220;The Future of Integration&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n\t<p>Fifty years ago, on\u00a0October 26, 1967, Dr. King presented &#8220;The Future of Integration,&#8221; at Saint Joseph&#8217;s University.\u00a0His message is as powerful now as it was then. On this important anniversary, our University community is engaged in a year-long exploration of the topics, ideas, questions, and needs that Dr. King posed.<\/p>\n\t<p><strong>Martin Luther King, Jr. Leads Selma to Montgomery March<\/strong><\/p>\nMartin Luther King, Jr. leading the march from Selma to Montgomery to protest lack of voting rights for African Americans.<strong><br \/>\nBeside King is John Lewis<\/strong>, Reverend Jesse Douglas, James Forman and Ralph Abernathy.<br \/>\n(Photo by Steve Schapiro\/Corbis via Getty Images)\n\t\t\t<h2>A Morning with John Lewis<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t<p>On Monday, April 16, congressman, activist and contemporary of Dr. King, Rep. Lewis delivered a speech to conclude the year-long commemoration of Dr. King&#8217;s visit to campus in 1967.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/mlk50\/live-stream\/\" target=\"_self\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWatch the Event\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sju.edu\/news\/congressman-john-lewis-remembers-mlk-inspires-hope-campus-speech\" target=\"_self\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRead More\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/mlk50\/files\/2018\/04\/180416-john-lewis-20_WEB.jpg\" alt=\"Civil rights leader and congressman John Lewis stands at a podium with the Saint Joseph&#039;s shield behind him.\" title=\"180416-john-lewis-20_WEB\" itemprop=\"image\"\/>\n\t<p><em>Lewis speaks to a crowd at SJU<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo Credit<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.melissakellyphotography.com\/\">Melissa Kelly Photography<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t<h2>A Year Long Celebration<\/h2>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<p>The memory and legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. remains alive at Saint Joseph&#8217;s University.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty years ago, on October 26, 1967, Dr. King delivered &#8220;The Future of Integration&#8221; to a crowd of students, faculty, staff and community members in Alumni Memorial Fieldhouse on SJU&#8217;s campus.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That event is commemorated with a bronze plaque in the lobby of our famed gymnasium.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty years later, the University dedicated the 2017-2018 academic year to exploring the ongoing impact of Dr. King&#8217;s lessons and his call to action through the theme &#8220;Our Destinies are Tied Together,&#8221; drawn from his remarks on our campus.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. King connected the issues of racism, poverty and war and challenged the audience to reflect on where to go from here, a question that continues to resonate today.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sju.edu\/news\/our-destinies-are-tied-together-commemorating-50th-anniversary-martin-luther-king-jr-speech\" target=\"_self\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRead More\n\t\t<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Menu A Morning with John Lewis Event Recaps Photo &#038; Video Galleries News &#038; Updates SJU Commemorates the 50th Anniversary of MLK&#8217;s Campus Visit &#8220;Our destinies are tied together.&#8221; &#8211; Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., &#8220;The Future of Integration&#8221;\u00a0 Fifty years ago, on\u00a0October 26, 1967, Dr. King presented &#8220;The Future of Integration,&#8221; at Saint Joseph&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1159","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/mlk50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/mlk50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/mlk50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/mlk50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/mlk50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1159"}],"version-history":[{"count":74,"href":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/mlk50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1836,"href":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/mlk50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1159\/revisions\/1836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/mlk50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}