In the early 60's M. L. King, Jr. and other civil rights workers, from many parts of the country, convened at the Dorchester Center. For several years King traveled to the black-owned and operated Dorchester Center. King and his instructors used the center to train thousands of teachers in basics of voter education and non-violent social change.  
              In 1962, King and his staff met and slept in the building once used as a boy's dormitory during the Academy years. It was here that strategies for the 1963 Birmingham, AL march were formulated. For King, the Dorchester Center, and another one in Frogmore, S.C., was a haven, somewhere they felt safe and protected. Center organizers, did not take any chances. They confined the knowledge of his visits to a few.
Notes were passed through out the county, only a few would come to the center at a time, so as not to bring attention to activities. Some of the ones in the know included the local police officers. The group often included Ralph David Abernathy, King's father, and former Atlanta mayor Andrew Young.
King is fondly remembered by Liberty residents as " a very good mixer", and one who did not stand on ceremony. He was as comfortable playing horseshoe, and baseball, as he was addressing a group.