“He was right here,” said Daniella Lake, a senior at UC Berkeley, pointing at Sproul Hall.
“7,000 students,” added Gia White, Administrative Director of Global International and Area Studies at UC Berkeley.
When Lake and White look at UC Berkeley’s Sproul Hall they see more than a building. They see history, Black history. “Martin Luther King, Jr. Came here in 1967, in May of 1967,” White explained. “He gave an anti-war speech, civil rights and anti-war against the Vietnam War. And he was just tons of people at his feet, 7,000 students and people from the community that came to hear him speak.” More…
