HISTORY PROFESSOR TO SPEAK ON KING

Gary Kremer, professor of history at William Woods College in Fulton, will speak on "Martin Luther King: The Dreamer and the Dream" Thursday at Southeast Missouri State University.

The event is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. in the University Center Ballroom. It is being sponsored by the Association of Black Collegians and the history department.

Kremer is one of Missouri's leading historians on the African-American experience.

In 1991, he published "James Milton and the Promise of America, The Public Life of a Post-Civil War Leader." He also has published "George Washington Carver: In His Own Words" and "Missouri's Black Heritage."

Kremer served as the state archivist of Missouri from January 1988 to August 1992.

Previously, he was a member of the history faculty at Lincoln University, where he earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in history. He earned his doctoral degree in history from The American University in Washington, D.C. in 1978.

Kremer has received one of the Missouri Humanities Council's first "Acorn Awards" for directing a project titled "Connecting Links: Tracing Family and Community History in Missouri." He also has been a popular speaker for the American Mirror Lecture Series sponsored by the Missouri Humanities Council.

On April 29, Kremer will return to Southeast to present the Lorberg Lecture under the auspices of the Missouri Humanities Council and the College of Liberal Arts.