MLK 40 Years: The Photographers

On Oct. 29, 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke on the Grinnell campus. He delivered his prophetic message, "Remaining Awake During a Revolution," just one day before beginning his 19th jail sentence for his involvement in the civil rights movement, and only six months before his April 1968 assassination.

Two Grinnellians, Robert Hodierne '68 and Derrick Te Paske '68, documented King's visit as student photographers.

In his 35 years as a journalist Robert Hodierne has worked as a writer, editor and photographer for a number of newspapers, wire services, magazines, radio and television stations, and Internet publications. Among his awards, Hodierne was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service and a Robert Kennedy Award in 1981 for a series of newspaper articles about Brown Lung disease. In early 2004 he did a six-week tour in Iraq for Military Times, and in 2005 returned to Iraq for an additional month to write about the war. Hodierne is an associate professor journalism at the University of Richmond.