Daily News | Historic ‘Blue Plaque’ for MLK unveiled: first in U.S. by British Trust known for recognizing Black history
Unitarian Universalist clergy Hannah Capaldi and members of the First Unitarian Church at 21st & Chestnut Streets in Philadelphia always “knew” of the connection between their church and Martin Luther King Jr.
, an organization in England known for recognizing Black history, unveiled the very first of its famous Blue Plaques in the U.S., at the church. Philadelphia activist and researcher Patrick Duff recently discovered that it was indeed at First Unitarian that King first heard Howard University professor and activist Mordecai Johnson give a lecture about Mahatma Gandhi’s principles that led King to adopt nonviolence as a philosophy in the civil rights movement.
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