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Martin Luther King Speaks, August 1973

Collection:: The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
Title:: Martin Luther King Speaks, August 1973
Date of Original:: 1973-08
Subject:: African Americans--Civil rights
Speeches, addresses, etc.
African Americans--Economic conditions
African Americans--Politics and government
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Location:: United States, 39.76, -98.5
Medium:: audiotapes
Type:: Sound
Format:: audio/mpeg
Description:: This audio recording features an episode of the radio program Martin Luther King Speaks. Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Board Chairman Joseph E. Lowery delivers the keynote address at the 16th Annual SCLC Convention in August 1973. Lowery delivers a speech about SCLC's "moral responsibility" and obligation to fight for justice. Lowery encourages SCLC members to take on a new sense of "moral responsibility", help address poverty, elect moral politicians, and turn bad into good. Lowery challenges Black people to unite, love each other, and fight for justice. The episode concludes with a call for support and justice for 55,000 imprisoned men who refused to fight in the Vietnam War. Audio is muffled.
The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generous support of the Joseph & Evelyn Lowery Institute for Justice and Human Rights, the Joseph Echols Lowery Irrevocable Trust, and other donors in supporting the processing and digitization of Morehouse College's Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection.
Metadata URL:: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:00634
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Extent:: 00:29:06
Original Collection:: The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/fa:199
Series: Audiovisual
Contributing Institution:: Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
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