Before the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize, became Time magazine's "Man of the Year" or gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, he gave a different speech -- in Tampa.
On Nov. 19, 1961, King spoke at Fort Homer Hesterly Armory on North Howard Avenue. At the time, Tampa resident Clarence Fort was a leader in the NAACP’s student chapter.
More than five decades later, Fort returned to the now-vacant armory for a conversation with Rodney Kite-Powell of the Tampa Bay History Center.
