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New Sculpture Recalls 1964 Soldier Field Civil Rights Rally with Dr. King, Rev. Hesburgh

Notre Dame Magazine

A bronze sculpture inspired by a 1964 civil rights rally in Chicago was unveiled Wednesday in South Bend, Ind.

The sculpture was modeled after a photograph of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the late University of Notre Dame President Rev. Theodore Hesburgh at a civil rights rally in Soldier Field which Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley and a local archbishop had refused to attend the rally. 

It depicts King and Hesburgh joining hands to sing the rally's anthem, "We Shall Overcome."   

Rev. Hesburgh led the University of Notre Dame from 1952-1987. Notre Dame's main campus is located in South Bend.

The artwork was sculpted by Granger, Ind., artist Tuck Langland, a retired fine arts professor from Indiana University South Bend.