Today is the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington, when Martin Luther King Jr. told throngs of ralliers in front of Lincoln Memorial that he had a dream. In the wake of that event, Bowdoin invited both King and civil rights leader Bayard Rustin — one of the chief organizers of the March — to the college’s “Spring Issues Conference” of 1964.
The broadside shown here (created and illustrated by Thomas Cornell, then a member of the art faculty) features a speech that Rustin delivered during his visit to Bowdoin. Click here to hear Martin Luther King’s address to the Bowdoin community.