Before this day is out, you might consider watching or listening to this speech given in London by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. In the first part, he gives a good summary of the entire arc of Negro civil rights in the U.S. In a Democracy Now! and Pacifica Radio Archives exclusive, we air a newly discovered recording of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. On December 7, 1964, days before he received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, King gave a major address in London on segregation, the fight for civil rights and his support for Nelson Mandela and the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa. The speech was recorded by Saul Bernstein, who was working as the European correspondent for Pacifica Radio. Bernsteins recording was recently discovered by Brian DeShazor, director of the Pacifica Radio Archives. democracynow.org/2015/1/19/exclusive_newly_discovered_1964_mlk_speech
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 22:13:06 +0000
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