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Swarthmore College will stick with its plan to partner with an organization that places retired military personnel on campus as visiting faculty members despite pushback from some faculty and students, its president announced Friday.The decision last year to partner with the Chamberlain Project sharply divided the Delaware County school. Supporters said it would broaden views and allow for .
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“A Time to Break Silence”: Swarthmore’s Virtual Reading of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s historic April 4th Speech. “A Time to Break Silence”: Swarthmore’s Virtual Reading of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s historic April 4th Speech.
On April 4, 1967 at Riverside Church in New York City, exactly a year before his assassination, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King delivered his renowned speech “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence.” Famously denouncing U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War abroad and continued racism back home, Rev. Dr. King’s address powerfully unified both conflicts with a call to collective action and reform.