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Martin Luther King Jr. Day events at Miami feature peace march, Sharon Draper

01/10/2012

Sharon Draper
Miami University will observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day with a peace march and commemoration program with speaker Sharon Draper (Miami MAT '73) Monday, Jan. 16. The peace march will begin at 10 a.m., starting at the Uptown Parks in Oxford and ending at Hall Auditorium. The program will begin at 11 a.m. in Hall Auditorium.

Draper is a New York Times best-selling author, five-time winner of the Coretta Scott King Book Award, an Ohio Teacher of the Year and a National Teacher of the Year (1997). She will present “A Man. A Memory. A Mountaintop." In her presentation, Draper will discuss King’s influence on her life, his importance to future generations and the responsibility of contributing to that future.

Draper will also speak at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 17, in the Sesquicentennial Chapel, on “A Blueprint for Dreamers.”

The events are sponsored by Miami’s office of diversity affairs, the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. and the Center for American and World Cultures.

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