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          Honoring Civil Rights

          
            
              
                
                Published: January 18, 2010
              

              
                Author: Matt Cashore '94
              

              







          

          
          
          

          
        
        
        
          

Notre Dame President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C.; President Barack Obama; and Notre Dame President Emeritus Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., smile at Commencement 2009 as President Obama is presented with a gift print of Father Hesburgh and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.  The image, by an unidentified photographer, captures Father Hesburgh and King linking hands in solidarity during a civil rights rally at Soldier Field in Chicago in 1964. Work in support of civil rights – marked most prominently by his service on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights – was among the many major social issues in which Father Hesburgh was involved.

        

        
        
          
            

          

        
      
      
    
  
  
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