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Program for an Evening with Martin Luther King, Jr. at Union Methodist Church

March 23, 1956

Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States, North and Central America

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A program for an event with Martin Luther King, Jr. at Union Methodist Church of Boston on March 23, 1956. The event was sponsored by the Sigma Chapter of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and The Interdenominational Ministers' Alliance of Greater Boston for the benefit of the Montgomery Improvement Association of Montgomery, AL. The program is printed in black ink on one sheet of off-white paper folder to produce four pages. The front page, or cover, has the event information, the interior pages have information on Alpha Phi Alpha and the schedule of the evening's program. The fourth and back page has a message titled "The House of Alpha."

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Catalog reference: 2012.46.34.9

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