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LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA – Lincoln University has designated January 20, 2011 as the day of rejoicing the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with a keynote address from Dr. King’s colleague, Reverend Calvin S. Morris ’63, Ph.D.
Former Lincoln University chairman and notable graduate, Rev. Morris will deliver his speech, “Honoring Dr. King in the Age of Obama,” on Lincoln University’s main campus in the Mary Dod Brown Memorial Chapel at 3:00 p.m.
The event is free and open to the public.
Rev. Morris serves as executive director of the Community Renewal Society, a faith-based social justice advocacy organization in Chicago, focusing on issues of race and poverty.
A civil and human rights activist, he worked with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., serving as associate director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s Operation BreadBasket (now Operation PUSH) in Chicago, under the leadership of Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. He was executive director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, founded by Mrs. Coretta Scott King, shortly after her husband’s assassination. He also was a university professor and theological dean from 1976-1998.
Dr. Morris was named as one of “40 Who Made a Difference” by Chicago’s Business People for the Public Interest in May 2009, and in January 2010 was identified as a “Man of Excellence” by The Chicago Defender. Rev. Morris’ motivational and eloquent speeches have allowed for him to be a guest preacher and lecturer at events around the nation.
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Lincoln University – founded in 1854 as the nation’s first Historically Black University – combines the best elements of a liberal arts and sciences-based undergraduate core curriculum and selected graduate programs to meet the needs of those living in a highly technological and global society. The University enrolls approximately 2,500 undergraduate and graduate students.
Internationally recognized for preparing learners and producing world-class leaders in their fields, Lincoln has created five academic Centers of Excellence-programs of distinctions. They are: Lincoln-Barnes Visual Arts, Grand Research Educational Awareness and Training (GREAT) for Minority Health, Mass Communications, Teacher Education and Urban Pedagogy and Business and Information Technology.