Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at Michigan State between Oslo and Selma

By TOM SHANAHAN Martin Luther King Jr. visited Michigan State University’s campus 56 years ago today at the invitation of president John Hannah, African-American professor Dr. Robert Green and Michigan State's student government. MLK spoke to a full house of 4,000 that greeted him with a standing ovation on Feb. 11, 1965 at the MSU Auditorium. Among the crowd was Gene Washington, a passenger aboard Michigan State coach Duffy Daugherty's 1960s Underground Railroad teams that led college football…

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