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To celebrate the life and legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. this month, Decades Ago looks back at the day in 1964 when King traveled to San Diego and delivered a speech at San Diego State.

Coming to the Mesa

On May 27, 1964, the Daily Aztec reported that on an unannounced topic that Friday in the Open Air Theater. The article reported largely biographical information about 鈥� that he was a Baptist minister, Time magazine鈥檚 鈥淢an of the Year鈥� in 1964 and founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference who 鈥渨as thrust into the national spotlight鈥� because of the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott he led eight years earlier.

The article included matter-of-factly that King led the 1963 鈥淢arch on Washington鈥� and had 鈥渂orrowed heavily from Gandhi鈥檚 ideas of passive resistance.鈥� Alongside this story, the Daily Aztec reported that the Associated Students Council was to discuss that day designating 鈥渙n-campus status鈥� to the Campus Congress of Racial Equality (CORE).

On the day of the speech, the Daily Aztec announced again that in the Open Air Theater and repeated most of what it reported two days earlier, and also wrote that King would speak that night at 鈥淐al Western鈥檚 Golden Gym.鈥� The title of that speech was ''Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution.''

Civil rights on campus

The May 29 issue of the Daily Aztec had a good deal more copy devoted to the decision by AS Council to grant on-campus, . AS Council rose above fears 鈥渢he campus would be propagandized by a national organization,鈥� likely due to comments at the meeting by .

On June 2, the Daily Aztec covered King鈥檚 speech the Friday before, but not until page 9. Delivered to a near-capacity crowd, the subject of was 鈥渉is faith in the American dream.鈥�

鈥淚f the American dream is to become a reality,鈥� King said, 鈥渋t must be concerned with the world dream鈥� to 鈥渕ake the world one in terms of brotherhood and peace.鈥�

Secondly, 鈥減eople must get rid of the idea that there are superior and inferior races.鈥� The third step in the realization of the American dream was 鈥渋mmediate action to rid the country of the last vestiges of segregation.鈥�

To this point specifically, King 鈥渆mphasized the importance of passing the civil rights legislation now in Congress.鈥� This legislation was the landmark Civil Rights Bill of 1964 signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, which outlawed discrimination against African Americans and women. The bill included voter registration protections and ended racial segregation in schools, workplaces and in facilities of 鈥減ublic accommodation.鈥�

Hoping for a comeback

San Diego State students extended invitations to to visit and speak at the college in 1965 and 1966.

In both instances he was unable to attend 鈥� in due to 鈥渢he present temper of events in the civil rights struggle,鈥� and in , expressing deep gratitude and regret, grass roots level work in communities, workshops on non-violence, voter registration and fund-raising meetings would keep him from accepting the invitation.

King also cited 鈥渢he movement which we are embarking on in Chicago,鈥� a reference to the Chicago Freedom Movement which would lead to two dramatic marches into all-white neighborhoods in a struggle for 鈥渙pen housing鈥� during the summer of 1966.

About Decades Ago at San Diego State

The 色情视频 Library's presents the weekly series "Decades Ago at San Diego State." Special Collections and University Archives staff members collect articles and photos from archived issues of The Daily Aztec, providing a glimpse of the university's past and its memorable events, people and programs.