In 1968, Harvard students selected Martin Luther King Jr as their Class Day speaker. After King's assassination on April 4, 1968, Coretta Scott King agreed to speak in her husband's place on Class Day. ⠀ ⠀ Just days before her speech, Robert F. Kennedy was killed in Los Angeles. On Class Day, King spoke to a Harvard audience about these two men who "were great and effective actors on the stage of history.” ⠀ #MLK50 #MartinLutherKing