SU Carillon to Toll in Memory of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. April 4

SALISBURY, MD---Salisbury University joins other institutions around the world in remembering the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the 50th anniversary of his death during the National Civil Rights Museum’s MLK50 Bell Toll on Wednesday, April 4.

The Brown and Church Carillon at SU’s Patricia R. Guerrieri Academic Commons will toll 39 times beginning at 7:05 p.m., along with hundreds of other carillons and chimes throughout the U.S. Each chime represents one year of the 39-year-old civil rights leader’s life.

King was fatally shot at 6:01 p.m. April 4, 1968, as he was standing on the second-floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN, where he had been called to support a sanitation workers strike.  

In King’s memory, bells at the National Civil Rights Museum complex, which includes the Lorraine Motel, will ring at 6:01 p.m. Central Daylight Time, followed by others in Memphis at 6:03 p.m.

SU’s carillon will join others throughout the nation in chiming at 6:05 p.m. Central Daylight Time (7:05 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time), followed by bells in other countries at 6:07 p.m. The staggering of the bells represents the news of King’s death rippling across the nation and world that evening.

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