"Many Philadelphians may have heard of King’s role in the fight to desegregate Girard College, of his 1965 speech at the Baptist Temple (known today as the Temple Performing Arts Center) or that with less than 12 hours notice he drew a crowd of 10,000 to the corner of 40th and Lancaster in West Philadelphia for a historic speech now marked by Cliff Eubanks’s mural “MLK at Lancaster.” 

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https://news.temple.edu/2021-01-14/philly-roots-mlk-s-legacy