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Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Concert

Each year since 1989, The University of Alabama, in conjunction with Stillman College and Shelton State Community College, has sponsored the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Concert. Also known as the Realizing the Dream Concert, this event — which presents some of America's best-known performers from the stage, screen, and recording studio — honors the essential legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.: nonviolent social change and an untiring struggle for freedom and justice through the transforming power of love. Past performers have included James Earl Jones, Harry Belafonte and Cicely Tyson.

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