Our Lives: Dr. Martin Luther King’s summers in Connecticut
Martin Luther King came to Simsbury in the summers of 1944 and 1947 to work on a tobacco farm when he was in college with a bunch of other students. At the time, he was a student at Morehouse College.
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507ds agoMartin Luther King came to
Simsbury in the summers of 1944 and 1947 to work on a tobacco farm when he was in
college with a bunch of other students. At the time, he was a student at
Morehouse College.
News 12 Connecticut
photojournalist Lori Golias spoke with students about his time in the state.
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