FROM KARE 11 NEWS REPORT
On Nov. 12, 1961, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., stepped into a packed Mankato High School auditorium and announced that “the wind of change is blowing all over the world.”
Marking one of his earliest appearances in the state of Minnesota, King spoke to the mostly white audience at Mankato High for nearly an hour and previewed many of the themes he would champion throughout the rest of the 1960s.
