As UB and the nation observed the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday on Monday, UB Then looked back at the civil rights leader's visit to Buffalo on Nov. 9, 1967, where he addressed an audience of some 2,100 at Kleinhans Music Hall at the invitation of the UB Graduate Student Association. King gave a passionate, hour-long speech on issues of the day, including the worsening plight of the nation’s Black poor and “a national administration that is more concerned with an unjust war in Vietnam than with winning the war on poverty,” The Spectrum reported. Just five months after his visit to Buffalo, King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis. Photo courtesy of University Archives