HOUGHTON -- It may have been a day off for Tech students, but that didn't stop them from attending actor and author Barry Scott's presentation at the Rosza Center on the MTU campus.
At the event's reception, students told Upper Michigan's Source what Martin Luther King, Jr. Day meant to them.
"I just appreciate the things that he went through and the sacrifices he made for me to be where I am today," said MTU student, Mack Reese.
"We are the, I guess, the fruits of the seeds that he planted. You know there may have been a time when we couldn't have been, African Americans couldn't have been students on this campus in Upper Peninsula Michigan," added Nicole White from the MTU Black Student's Union.
"Years ago, we didn't have this certain day to call our own, I guess, and us being only quite a few of us here, it means really a lot to us," explained MTU senior, Valerie Rucker.
And although most agreed that we've come a long way since the days of Martin Luther King, Jr., there's still a long way to go.
The Black Student Union and Center for Diversity and Inclusion at Tech are constantly working to make progress.
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