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Martin Luther King Jr. speaks at Michigan State University, 1965

With permission from Michigan State Click to listen to a portion of MLK's speech on Feb. 11, 1965, before 4,000 people filling the MSU Auditorium. King said, "Time is neutral and the time is always right to do right." This was the difference between Duffy Daugherty's 1960s teams that led college football integration. He didn't wait for the right time to recruit college football's first fully integrated rosters. This was unlike other coaches, most notably Alabama's Bear Bryant,…

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Read more about the article Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at Michigan State between Oslo and Selma

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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