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Maya Angelou says memorial bring abouts MLK humour ‘arrogant’
By Liz Goodwin |
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Martin Luther King: Live Speech on Racial Discrimination
Today is Martin Luther King Day in the United States. Listen to this rare recording of a 1 hour speech that Dr. King gave on March 24, , the same year of his I Have a Dream Speech which he delivered on August 28, This speech takes a more comprehensive look at the history of African Americans and their journey from slavery to segregation to the civil rights movement. Delivered in the midst of this movement, Dr. King calls for urgency in fighting racial injustice and for nonviolent action in dealing with the moral issues of racism. He surveys the many aspects of the civil rights movement at the time and provides his wisdom on all these aspects. Listen to this excellent speech from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. available from the Forum Network on streaming audio.
Martin Luther King: Live Speech on Racial Discrimination
And now Stanford Universitys King Research and Education Institute freely provides streaming audio of over 20 of Dr. Kings most famous speeches and sermons:
Martin Luther King Speeches and Sermons from the King Institute
Here are the speeches you can listen to there:
28 February Rediscovering Lost Values
5 December Address to the first Montgomery Improvement Associat
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