Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at Penn Center ‘I have a dream’

He visited Penn Community Center five times between 1964 and 1967. Here he worked on and drafted his “I Have a Dream” speech, as well as plan and strategize the March on Washington. He said then “I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits.”  He worked in a secluded corner of the campus in a simple wooden cottage called the Gantt Cottage.