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MLK Day Free Admission to the Museum

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January 20th at 9:00am – 5:00pm

McLean County Museum of History

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Enjoy free admission all day on the MLK Day Holiday Monday, January 20th. We invite to reflect and learn about our local history.

Come and see A Community in Conflict, an exhibit that asks the question. "Who had the Power" https://mchistory.org/digital-exhibits/a-community-in-conflict

Martin Luther King, Jr. first visited the Twin Cities in early 1961. Here he is greeting some of the 500 or so area residents and Wesleyan students who came to hear him speak at IWU's Memorial Center. King cautioned that the continued success of the civil rights movement was by no means preordained, and that “social progress never rolled in on wheels of inevitability.” He returned to the Wesleyan campus five years later, in 1966.

You can listen to the full length speech that he gave Feb. 10, 1966 here: https://buff.ly/3WfSrp7  His speech begins at the 6:42 minute mark on YouTube. The speech is also available on SoundCloud here: https://buff.ly/3Wezt20.

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Enjoy free admission all day on the MLK Day Holiday Monday, January 20th. We invite to reflect and learn about our local history.

Come and see A Community in Conflict, an exhibit that asks the question. "Who had the Power" https://mchistory.org/digital-exhibits/a-community-in-conflict

Martin Luther King, Jr. first visited the Twin Cities in early 1961. Here he is greeting some of the 500 or so area residents and Wesleyan students who came to hear him speak at IWU's Memorial Center. King cautioned that the continued success of the civil rights movement was by no means preordained, and that “social progress never rolled in on wheels of inevitability.” He returned to the Wesleyan campus five years later, in 1966.

You can listen to the full length speech that he gave Feb. 10, 1966 here: https://buff.ly/3WfSrp7  His speech begins at the 6:42 minute mark on YouTube. The speech is also available on SoundCloud here: https://buff.ly/3Wezt20.