Southern University System President Ralph Slaughter gives the opening lecture at a special photography exhibit illustrating the life of Martin Luther King Jr. The exhibit is on display at the West Baton Rouge Museum in Port Allen.

Slaughter lecture opens MLK exhibit at WBR museum

A special photographic exhibit is being featured at the West Baton Rouge Museum, 845 N. Jefferson Avenue in Port Allen. The exhibit, "Martin Luther King Jr. Remembered: Photographs by Flip Schulke," opened January 6 with a reception and lecture by Southern University System President Ralph Slaughter and a showing of the Schulke interview. The exhibit will continue through March 30.

The presentation makes mention in a taped interview that Belafonte established a college trust fund for King's four children shortly before King was assassinated. The year 2008 will mark the 40th anniversary of both the assassination and the museum.

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