2005 31st Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration

Theme

Justice and Equality for All: America's Moral Dilemma

Keynote

Gwen Ifill

Moderator and Managing Editor, Washington Week, National Public Radio

MLK Leadership Awardees

James L. Sherley

Associate Professor, Biological Engineering. MIT

R. Erich Caulfield SM ’01

PhD ’06, EECS, MIT

James Banks '76

Kerry and Linda Killinger Endowed Chair, Diversity Studies Emeritus, University of Washington

Founding Director, Center for Multicultural Education, University of Washington

Quote

“America and the world have benefited enormously from MIT’s willingness, during and after the Second World War, to hire teachers and scholars from many nations and from groups that had been denied full membership in a restrictive academy. As we look to the future, we need to keep the lesson of that history in mind.”

Susan Hockfield, MIT President (2004-2012) at the 31st Annual MLK Celebration