Program for an Evening with Martin Luther King, Jr. at Union Methodist Church: Museum Object and Cultural History
Program for an Evening with Martin Luther King, Jr. at Union Methodist Church: Date: March 23, 1956. Created by: Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., American, founded 1906. Subject of: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., American, 1929 - 1968.
The object in the museum catalogue
A program for an event with Martin Luther King, Jr. at Union Methodist Church of Boston on March 23, 1956. The event was sponsored by the Sigma Chapter of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and The Interdenominational Ministers' Alliance of Greater Boston for the benefit of the Montgomery Improvement Association of Montgomery, AL. The program is printed in black ink on one sheet of off-white paper folder to produce four pages. The front page, or cover, has the event information, the interior pages have information on Alpha Phi Alpha and the schedule of the evening's program. The fourth and back page has a message titled "The House of Alpha."
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: March 23, 1956
- Created by: Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., American, founded 1906
- Subject of: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., American, 1929 - 1968
- Subject of: Union Methodist Church, American, founded 1796
- Type: souvenir programs
- Medium: ink on paper (fiber product)
- Dimensions: H x W: 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (21.6 x 14 cm)
- Place depicted: Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Associations and institutions
- Topic: Civil Rights
- Topic: Fraternities
- Topic: Interfaith communities
- Topic: Methodist
- Topic: The Black Church
- Object number: 2012.46.34.22
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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