PHILADELPHIA — Unitarian Universalist clergy Hannah Capaldi and members of the First Unitarian Church at 21st & Chestnut Streets in Philadelphia always "knew" of the connection between their church and Martin Luther King Jr.
But for over 70 years, historians, scholars and even prize-winning biographers of King got the exact date and location wrong of an impactful lecture that took place in 1950 while King was a student at Crozer Theological Seminary in Upland, Delaware County.
"We never wanted to take credit for something as amazing as that," Capaldi said on Sunday as the Nubian Jak Community Trust, an organization in England known for recognizing Black history, unveiled the very first of its famous Blue Plaques in the U.S., at the church.
