Reflections of the Dream, 1975-1994: Twenty-One Years Celebrating the Life of Dr. Martin Jr. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Edited by Clarence G. Williams
MIT Press, 1996
Bringing together speeches given at the Institute's annual King Day convocation, this book celebrates two decades of commitment by MIT to honoring the honoring the memory and furthering the work of Martin Luther King, Jr. In reading these speeches, one catches in reflection twenty years of turmoil and change, some positive (including an increasing number of speakers drawn from the ranks of MIT's African American alumni/ae) but much negative, in which Dr King's dream has been a continuing beacon for action. Speakers have included leaders who are prominent both nationally and in the local (Boston/Cambridge) community, in accordance with Dr. King’s dual emphasis on global and local issues. The book closes with Coretta Scott King’s twentieth-anniversary address in 1994.
About the editor
Clarence G. Williams is an Adjunct Professor of Urban Studies & Planning Emeritus and former Special Assistant to the President at MIT. He joined the administration in 1972 as Assistant Dean of the Graduate School and was named Special Assistant to the President and Chancellor for Minority Affairs in 1974. Dr. Williams was instrumental in helping to establish MIT's annual commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the designation of Martin Luther King Day as an Institute holiday.
From 1980-1982, he served as Acting Director of the Office of Minority Education, and from 1984-1997, he assumed additional responsibilities as Assistant Equal Opportunity Officer, along with a broader scope of the Special Assistant position, to serve the MIT community as an ombudsperson. From 1992 until his status changed to emeritus in 2004, he taught race relations and diversity courses in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. Dr. Williams continues to help pave the way for achievement of many black students, faculty, and staff at MIT.
He is currently the founding director of the Blacks at MIT History Project. Sponsored by the MIT Office of the Provost, the project is a multimedia initiative to research, identify, and produce scholarly curatorial content on the black experience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since its founding in 1861.
Dr. Williams is also the editor of Technology and the Dream: Reflections on the Black Experience at MIT, 1941-1999 (MIT Press, 2001).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1994
The Movement for Economic and Social Justice: 1994 and Beyond
Coretta Scott King
[video]
1993
Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
William H. Gray III
[video]
1992
The Dream and Reality: Closing the Gap
Margaret A. Burnham
[video]
1991
Linking the Civil Rights Movement to MIT and Dr. King's Dream: Reality-- Closing the Gap
Benjamin L. Hooks
[video]
1990
The Dream and Hope, the Nightmare of Reality: Closing the Gap for Our Youth
Nikki Giovanni
1989
On Behalf of Justice
Gregory C. Chisholm, S.J.
1988
From Dreams to Reality
Elizabeth B. Rawlins
1987
Introspection, Outreach and Inclusion: Achieving Pluralism at MIT
Samuel D. Proctor
1986
Living the Dream: To Believe and Achieve
Shirley Ann Jackson
1985
The Unfinished Agenda of Martin Luther King, Jr. in the Context of the Eighties
John H. Adams
Julius L. Chambers
Leo Marx
Michael R. Winston
1984
The Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Path to Human Dignity and Freedom
John R. Bryant
Helen G. Edmonds
1983
Rekindling the Spirit of Martin Luther King, Jr. in a Time of Retrenchment
Price M. Cobb
A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.
[VIDEO]
1982
The Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the New Movement for Justice
Charles S. Brown
1981
King: What Progress Since the Dream?
LeRoy Attles
Samuel D. Proctor
1980
Do You Remember?
Anthony C. Campbell
1979
The Dream: When Will We Overcome?
Melvin G. Brown
1978
Keeping the Dream Alive
Jerome H. Holland
1977
The Dream: Education is Freedom
Muriel S. Snowden
1976
Reflection of the Dream : Past, Present and Future
Walter J. Leonard
[VIDEO]
1975
Martin Luther King, Jr., what Does He Mean to Me?
Hubert. E Jones
