Category: Black History
Dr. Martin Luther King – Sermon: Beyond Vietnam – 1967 –
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King – Sermon at Riverside Church – April 4, 1967 – Southern Christian Leadership Conference – In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday today – a day perhaps overshadowed by our current state of affairs and the level of confusion we find ourselves in, I
January 8, 1968 – Civil Rights; In Anticipation Of A Long-Hot Summer – Indicting Dr. Spock – The First Heart Transplant
January 8,1968 – Newsfront – Eastern Educational Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 8, 1968 – Anticipation of a year of protests. The year was starting off with warnings from Civil Rights leaders that Summer of 1968 was going to be potentially just as hot as summers past,
December 6, 1957 – Rock n’ Roll In Days Of Segregation – Little Rock, Arkansas – Past Daily Weekend Pop Chronicles
December 6, 1957 – KOKY, Little Rock Arkansas – The Harold Hartley Show – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – December 6, 1957 – Little Rock, Arkansas – the year may sound familiar and the city may ring a few bells. Only 3 months earlier, Little Rock was ground zero for
October 30, 1998 – Truth And Reconciliation – Car Bomb Attacks In Gaza – John Glenn Back In Space
October 30, 1998 – BBC World Service Newshour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 30, 1998 – A momentous day for South Africa; the publication and release of the final Truth and Reconciliation report took place on this day. At a ceremony in Pretoria, Commission Chairman Desmond Tutu presented
August 14, 1978 – Jimmy Carter Talks To The Farmers – The King Assassination Inquiry Starts
August 14, 1978 – CBS Radio – The World Tonight – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 14, 1978 – On this day 40 years ago, President Jimmy Carter addressed a gathering of the Mid-Continent Farmers Association. In what was initially billed as a “Major Foreign Policy Address”, the address
August 11-16, 1965 – Five Nights In Watts – Chronicle Of A Disturbance – Past Daily Reference Room
August 11-16, 1965 – KMPC Reports/Newscasts – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Become a Patron! On the evening of Wednesday, August 11, 1965, 21-year-old Marquette Frye, an African-American man driving his mother’s 1955 Buick, was pulled over by California Highway Patrol motorcycle officer Lee Minikus for allegedly reckless driving .After