In this Dec. 17, 1962, photo, Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, the U.S. delegate to the United Nations, shakes hands with Martin Luther King Jr., president of the Southern Christian Leadership ...

"He's too young and he's traveling on the reputation of his father," a hostile Winnetka Republican said recently of Adlai E. Stevenson III '52, the Democratic candidate for Treasurer of Illinois.

In 1952 Adlai Stevenson spoke on racial discrimination to a segregated audience in Richmond, Virginia. The speech was moderate, but left no doubt that Stevenson was determined to campaign for ...