From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Jan. 14, 1990:

A crowd filled the Kansas Union ballroom this week to hear Martin Luther King III speak about the dream of his father, Martin Luther King Jr. King, the oldest son of slain civil rights leader, had visited Lawrence as part of the fifth annual Martin Luther King Day celebration, sponsored by Lawrence Ecumenical Fellowship. In his speech, King bluntly confronted the persistent problems of education, drug and alcohol abuse, and crime, but spoke of himself as an optimist, saying, “We can achieve freedom and justice.” King drew applause from the crowd of over 300 listeners when he said that “morally and spiritually, this nation is not moving in the right direction.”