A Time To Break Silence

Schedule

Sat, 04 Apr, 2026 at 11:00 am

UTC-05:00

Location

Iowa City Public Library | Iowa City, IA

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A Community Reading of Martin Luther King’s
“A Time to Break Silence”
Free and open to the public. Come listen, or take a turn reading. The speeches will be repeated several times. Come and go as you wish.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his most controversial speech on April 4, 1967. One year later, on April 4, 1968, he was assassinated in Memphis.
Come read with us his 1967 speech, and also ”I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,” his last speech on April 3, 1968.
• Sponsored by Veterans For Peace Chapter #161 Eastern Iowa (vfp161.org) and
• Peace Iowa (peaceiowa.org)

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Iowa City Public Library, 123 S Linn St, Iowa City, IA 52240-1803, United States

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