Dallas County Sheriff's Department Civil Rights Surveillance Recording. Tapes 6-7.

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Collection:: Oral Histories
Title:: Dallas County Sheriff's Department Civil Rights Surveillance Recording. Tapes 6-7.
Publisher:: Dallas County (Ala.). Department of the Sheriff
Birmingham, Ala. : Birmingham Public Library
Date of Original:: 1965
Subject:: African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama--Selma
Civil rights movements--Alabama--Selma
Civil rights--Alabama--Selma
People:: King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Location:: United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham, 33.52066, -86.80249
Medium:: open reel audiotapes
MP3
Type:: Sound
Format:: audio/mpeg
Description:: Tapes #6 and #7, location unknown, undated (31 minutes). Recording begins with King speaking. He references charges that he and other are outside agitators and compares his travels with those of the Apostle Paul
references the “festering sore of segregation” and tells the crowd that the next Monday will be “Freedom Monday,” a “day of massive testing and challenge.” References testing public accommodations at “every restaurant, every theater, every hotel on the highway and every motel in the community.” Talks of the need to “desegregate our minds and “remove the shackles of fear.” Addresses the charge that a goal of civil rights activity is inter-racial marriage. Recording ends.
Metadata URL:: http://cdm16044.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15099coll2/id/1233
IIIF manifest:: https://cdm16044.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/2/p15099coll2:1233/manifest.json
Language:: eng
Additional Rights Information:: This material may be protected under Title 17 of the U. S. Copyright Law which governs the making of photocopies or reproductions of copyrighted materials. You may use the digitized material for private study, scholarship, or research.
Extent:: 31 min.
Original Collection:: Dallas County, Ala. Sheriff's Department Civil Rights Surveillance Recordings, 1965
Contributing Institution:: Birmingham Public Library (Ala.)
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