This Week in National Press Club History

July 19, 1962: At an NPC Luncheon, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. says the Negro race must never use second-class methods to gain first-class citizenship and appeals to “the conscience of the great decent majority.”

July 22, 1996: Actress Elizabeth Taylor returns to the Press Club to speak on the campaign to eradicate AIDS.

This Week in National Press Club History is brought to you by the History and Heritage Committee, which preserves and revitalizes the Club’s history through displays, panel discussions, events, lectures and the oral history project.

For more information on History and Heritage Committee-sponsored events or to join the committee, contact Bill Hickman at [email protected] .

-- Elizabeth Smith Brownstein, [email protected]