Pub history

Luther’s Bar

When Martin Luther King visited Newcastle upon Tyne to receive a Newcastle University honorary doctorate in civil law, it was the culmination of more than a year’s planning, involving the university, Mr King and his Southern Christian Leadership Conference HQ staff in Atlanta. On 13 November 1967, Newcastle University became the only British institution to award King an honorary degree, with Newcastle being the only other place in Britain which King ever visited, aside from London.