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A Mournful March

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Issue Date: 
January 19, 2016

It was April 7, 1968, and a parade of black and white marchers, some linked arm in arm, walked down Centre Avenue from the Hill District to Downtown. The day had been declared a National Day of Mourning for Martin Luther King Jr., the prominent civil rights leader and clergyman who had been assassinated three days before, on April 4, as he stood on a balcony outside of his Memphis, Tenn., hotel room.

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Happenings

Awards & More

Welker Named Coordinator, Pitt’s Sexual Harassment And Assault Response Unit

Newsmakers

A Mournful March

On the Freedom Road

Follow a group of Pitt students on the Returning to the Roots of Civil Rights bus tour, a nine-day, 2,300-mile journey crisscrossing five states.

Introduction

Day 1: The Awakening
Day 2: Deep Impressions
Day 3: Music, Montgomery, and More
Day 4: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Day 5: Learning to Remember
Day 6: The Mountaintop
Day 7: Slavery and Beyond
Day 8: Lessons to Bring Home
Day 9: Final Lessons

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