The Martin Luther King Peace Committee is named after the US Baptist clergyman and civil rights leader who articulated a wider vision of peace that linked overcoming racial segregation in the US through nonviolence with a critique of the Cold War and injustices in the global economic system. On the 13th of November, 1967, Newcastle University gave Dr Martin Luther King an honorary degree – the only UK university to do so during his lifetime. You can read more about his remarkable visit here. The Peace Committee started as a collaboration between some Christian chaplains at Newcastle’s two universities and now draws in people from various walks of life in the city and region. Inspired by King’s vision, it seeks to ‘build cultures of peace.’ Our TES pages contain teaching materials we have created to further this purpose.