Freedom City 2017

Freedom City 2017 Freedom City: A programme commemorating the 50th anniversary of Dr Martin Luther King Jr. receiving his honorary degree from Newcastle University.

Freedom City 2017 is a cultural and academic programme commemorating the 50th anniversary of Dr Martin Luther King Jr receiving his honorary degree from Newcastle University. On 13 November 1967, Newcastle University awarded Dr Martin Luther King Jr. an honorary degree, the only UK University to do so in his lifetime. On accepting this award Dr King made what was to be his final public speech outs

ide of the US before his assassination in April 1968. There are three urgent and indeed great problems that we face not only in the united States of America but all over the world today. That is the problem of racism, the problem of poverty and the problem of war.

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Newcastle Upon Tyne

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