Coretta Scott King to speak at SUNY Brockport

Coretta Scott King, widow of slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., will speak at SUNY Brockport on Wednesday, February 27, at 7:30 p.m. in the Seymour College Union Ballroom. She will be the featured speaker for the annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Lecture, hosted by the African and Afro-American Studies Department of SUNY Brockport.

Since her husband's assassination in 1968, Mrs. King has devoted much of her energy and attention to developing programs and building the Atlanta-based Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change as a living memorial to her husband's life and dream. Situated in the Freedom Hall complex excircling Dr. King's tomb, The King Center is part of a 23-acre national historic park which includes his birth home and which hosts over one million visitors a year. The King Center is the first institution built in memory of an African American leader.

Tickets are free for SUNY Brockport students, $2 for SUNY Brockport faculty, staff and alumni, and $5 for the general public.

This event is sponsored by Brockport Student Government, the SUNY Brockport African and Afro-American Studies Department, the SUNY Brockport Office of Residential Life, the SUNY Brockport Better Community Coalition, the SUNY Brockport Office of Leadership and Community Development and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Greater Rochester Commission.