1958 Martin Luther King Visit
January 20, 2015
The 13 Feb. 1958 Technician reported on a visit of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., to Raleigh on Feb. 10 of that year. This may be the earliest date in which NC State's student newspaper published an in-depth article about Dr. King, who was speaking at a local church's Institute of Religion event. Before an audience of 1700 people in Broughton High School, King discussed non-violent resistance to segregation. The most significant part of the speech for the Technician reporter was King's statement that "integration will never be a reality until such a time comes that all men understand and trust each other." Viewers can now read the full article online.
This online Technician archives has recently been made available by the NCSU Libraries as part of our mandate to preserve the history of North Carolina State University and distribute that history widely to scholars, alumni, and the public. The Technician , the university’s student newspaper, is now available online in a format that is easy to browse and search. Approximately4000 issues from 1920 through 1990 that are digitized and indexed in the NCSU Libraries’ online collection. More recent issues will be added in the upcoming year. More information can be found at the NCSU Libraries News .