Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)

                        Visit to Athens in 1959


        MLK came to participate in the 18th Ecumenical Student Conference on
the Christian World Mission, held in Athens, December 27, 1959-Jan. 2, 1960.
His address titled " The Church on the Frontier of Racial Tension", was
delivered on December 30th, 1959 in the Alumni Memorial Auditorium (now
called Templeton-Blackburn).

The National Student Christian Federation (NSCF) was affiliated with the World
Student Christian Federation, a forerunner of the World Council of Churches.
Ohio University provided dorm spaces and meeting rooms for the participants.
Some 3,000 persons attended the quadrennial conference in Athens.

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