Keynote speaker remembers King's achievements
By Mike Monson
Saturday January 19, 2008
CHAMPAIGN – It was nearly 40 years ago, but Joyce E. Tucker vividly remembers how it felt to be a black undergraduate student at the University of Illinois and hear that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated.
Tucker, a 1970 UI graduate, was the keynote speaker Friday afternoon at the seventh annual countywide celebration honoring King, held at Champaign's Hilton Garden Inn.
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