Not only did Martin Luther King Jr. speak at Ohio Northern on Jan. 11, 1968, but his widow and two of his children came to campus in the 1990s.
Dr. King died in Memphis on April 4, 1968, less than three months after his address in Ada. It is said that his ONU talk was his last on a college campus.
Coretta Scott King came to Ohio Northern on Jan. 21, 1993. She died Jan. 30, 2006.
A daughter, Yolanda, was at Ohio Northern in January, 1992. She died Aug. 15, 2007.
Another daughter, Rev. Bernice A. King, spoke in ONU's chapel on Jan. 13, 1994.