"[Rev. Dr. Melvin G. Brown] was the Senior Minister at the Union Baptist Church in Central Square, about two blocks from MIT's main campus. The Union Baptist Church is significant because it is known as one of the churches where Dr. King preached while he was attending Boston University."

--Clarence G. Williams, Reflections of the Dream, 1975-1994: Twenty-One Years Celebrating the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT Press, 1996)