1 Video recording ((1 U-matic 3/4" video recording))
Container:
Box 6, Item 46c
Type:
Archival materials
Video recordings
Place:
Atlanta (Ga.)
Date:
1986 January 20
Scope and Contents note:
Eighteenth Annual Ecumenical Service, Ebenezer Baptist Church, January 20, 1986; Tape 3 of 3
Restrictions:
Use of the materials requires an appointment. This item will require preservation reformatting before it can be accessed. Please contact the archivist for more information: ACMarchives@si.edu.
Collection Citation:
Atlanta Interfaith Broadcasters oral history collection exhibition records, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution
1 Video recording ((1 U-matic 3/4" video recording))
Container:
Box 10, Item 84
Type:
Archival materials
Video recordings
Place:
Atlanta (Ga.)
Date:
1992 January 19
Scope and Contents note:
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Observance, The Witness of Love, Grace United Methodist Church, Atlanta, Georgia, Sunday, January 19, 1992, Sponsored by the North Georgia Conference Committee on Religion and Race of the United Methodist Church
Restrictions:
Use of the materials requires an appointment. This item will require preservation reformatting before it can be accessed. Please contact the archivist for more information: ACMarchives@si.edu.
Collection Citation:
Atlanta Interfaith Broadcasters oral history collection exhibition records, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution
1 Video recording ((1 U-matic 3/4" video recording))
Container:
Box 4, Item 33
Type:
Archival materials
Video recordings
Place:
Atlanta (Ga.)
Date:
1990-1991
Scope and Contents note:
The AIB Collection of Afro-American Videos for 1990/1991, Ralph David Abernathy; In an interview with William Womack, Ralph David Abernathy talks about his life, the Civil Rights Movement, his relationship to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, and his book "The Walls Came Tumbling Down." This interview was taped at Atlanta Interfaith Broadcasters four months before the death of Mr. Abernathy.
Restrictions:
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Collection Citation:
Atlanta Interfaith Broadcasters oral history collection exhibition records, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution
2 Video recordings ((2 U-matic 3/4" video recordings))
Container:
Box 5, Item 45a, Item 46a
Type:
Archival materials
Video recordings
Place:
Atlanta (Ga.)
Date:
1986 January 20
Scope and Contents note:
Eighteenth Annual Ecumenical Service, Ebenezer Baptist Church, January 20, 1986; Tape 1 of 3
Restrictions:
Use of the materials requires an appointment. This item will require preservation reformatting before it can be accessed. Please contact the archivist for more information: ACMarchives@si.edu.
Collection Citation:
Atlanta Interfaith Broadcasters oral history collection exhibition records, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution
3 Video recordings ((3 U-matic 3/4" video recordings))
Container:
Box 5, Item 45b, Item 45c, 46b
Type:
Archival materials
Video recordings
Place:
Atlanta (Ga.)
Date:
1986 January 20
Scope and Contents note:
Eighteenth Annual Ecumenical Service, Ebenezer Baptist Church, January 20, 1986; Tape 2 of 3
Restrictions:
Use of the materials requires an appointment. This item will require preservation reformatting before it can be accessed. Please contact the archivist for more information: ACMarchives@si.edu.
Collection Citation:
Atlanta Interfaith Broadcasters oral history collection exhibition records, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution
1 Video recording ((1 U-matic 3/4" video recording))
Container:
Box 11, Item 89
Type:
Archival materials
Video recordings
Place:
Atlanta (Ga.)
Scope and Contents note:
The Opening of "Hidden Treasures," an exhibition highlighting well-known and not so well-known African-American photographers in Atlanta. Of special interest are a series of photographs from the Civil Rights Movement, including insightful pictures of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. Other highlights are photos dating from the late 19th century and early 20th century. The opening took place at the Apex Museum, a Museum of African-American culture, in Atlanta, GA.
Restrictions:
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Collection Citation:
Atlanta Interfaith Broadcasters oral history collection exhibition records, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution
1 Video recording ((1 U-matic 3/4" video recording))
Container:
Box 15, Item 117a
Type:
Archival materials
Video recordings
Place:
Atlanta (Ga.)
Date:
1993-1994
Scope and Contents note:
Rev. Vivian is the Board Chairman of the Black Action Strategies and Information Center, Inc. (BASIC) in Atlanta, GA and the Board Chairman for the Center for Democratic Renewal - the Anti-Violence Network. He is also the National Director of Affiliates, SCLC. He served on Dr. Martin Luther King's Executive Staff serving under Dr. King's direct supervision.
Restrictions:
Use of the materials requires an appointment. This item will require preservation reformatting before it can be accessed. Please contact the archivist for more information: ACMarchives@si.edu.
Collection Citation:
Atlanta Interfaith Broadcasters oral history collection exhibition records, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution
1 Video recording ((1 U-matic 3/4" video recording))
Container:
Box 15, Item 117b
Type:
Archival materials
Video recordings
Place:
Atlanta (Ga.)
Date:
1993-1994
Scope and Contents note:
Rev. Vivian is the Board Chairman of the Black Action Strategies and Information Center, Inc. (BASIC) in Atlanta, GA and the Board Chairman for the Center for Democratic Renewal - the Anti-Violence Network. He is also the National Director of Affiliates, SCLC. He served on Dr. Martin Luther King's Executive Staff serving under Dr. King's direct supervision.
Restrictions:
Use of the materials requires an appointment. This item will require preservation reformatting before it can be accessed. Please contact the archivist for more information: ACMarchives@si.edu.
Collection Citation:
Atlanta Interfaith Broadcasters oral history collection exhibition records, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution
1 Video recording ((1 U-matic 3/4" video recording))
Container:
Box 15, Item 117c
Type:
Archival materials
Video recordings
Place:
Atlanta (Ga.)
Date:
1993-1994
Scope and Contents note:
Rev. Vivian is the Board Chairman of the Black Action Strategies and Information Center, Inc. (BASIC) in Atlanta, GA and the Board Chairman for the Center for Democratic Renewal - the Anti-Violence Network. He is also the National Director of Affiliates, SCLC. He served on Dr. Martin Luther King's Executive Staff serving under Dr. King's direct supervision.
Restrictions:
Use of the materials requires an appointment. This item will require preservation reformatting before it can be accessed. Please contact the archivist for more information: ACMarchives@si.edu.
Collection Citation:
Atlanta Interfaith Broadcasters oral history collection exhibition records, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Introduction --100 years later --Segregation is wrong --Sense of dignity --Urgency of the moment --Non-violent approach -- Love your enemy --The militant negro --Segregation in the north --The price of freedom --I have a dream.
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-LP-1065
Gordy.906
Publication, Distribution, Etc. (Imprint):
Detroit, Mich. Gordy 1963
General:
Notes by Raymond S. McCann on container. Performer(s): Martin Luther King, Jr., speaker. Production notes: The author's speech at Detroit, June 23, 1963.
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.
Collection Rights:
Copyright restrictions apply. Contact archives staff for additional information.
Recording of the speeches given at Washington, D.C., Aug. 28, 1963, by A. Phillip Randolph, Walter Reuther, Roy Wilkins, Whitney M. Young, and the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and of We shall overcome, sung by Liz Lands.
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-LP-1467
Gordy.908
Publication, Distribution, Etc. (Imprint):
Detroit, Mich. Gordy
General:
Notes by Lee Ivory on container.
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.
Collection Rights:
Copyright restrictions apply. Contact archives staff for additional information.
Come on this house--Rev. Martin Luther King--Trying to make 100 (99 1/2 won't do)--Rev. Ralph Abernathy
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-7RR-1425
General:
Folkways 5487
CDR copy; Extensive notes and bibliographical references in accompanying booklet. Performer(s): Documentary of a mass meeting, including speeches by Ralph Abernathy and Martin Luther King ; songs performed by the Birmingham Movement Choir. Recorded by Guy and Candie Carawan in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963.
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.
Collection Rights:
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Come on this house--Martin Luther King speaks--Trying to make 100 (99 1/2 won't do)--Ralph Abernathy speaks
Track Information:
101 Come on in This House / Birmingham Movement Choir.
102 Speaks / Martin Luther, Jr. King.
103 Trying to Make 100 (99 1/2 Won't Do) / Birmingham Movement Choir.
104 Speaks / Ralph Abernathy.
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-10RR-3167
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: Alabama, United States, 1963.
General:
Folkways 5487
CDR copy exists-- accompanying booklet. Performer(s): Documentary of a mass meeting, including speeches by Ralph Abernathy and Martin Luther King ; songs performed by the Birmingham Movement Choir. Recorded by Guy and Candie Carawan in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963.
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.
Collection Rights:
Copyright restrictions apply. Contact archives staff for additional information.
The struggle / L. Hughes (0:22) -- Field call / A.G.H. Dodson (1:15) -- Complaint call / E. Brown (0:40) -- Intro and Kneebone Bend / L. McKiver, D. Skipper (2:51) -- Brother Terrapin, slow train to Arkansas / R. Amerson (1:56) -- Jack and Mary and three dogs / J. Hunter (5:53) -- Buck dance / J. Tucker (1:19) -- I'm goin' up north / Children of East York School (1:22) -- Pharaoh's host got lost / L. McKiver (1:32) -- Bars fight / L. Terry (read by A. Bontemps) (1:23) -- Earl of Dartmouth / P. Wheatley (read by D.F. Washington) (0:49) -- I wonder where my brother gone / A.G.H. Dodson (1:17) -- Narrative / H. Tubman (read by D.F. Washington) (0:59) -- Speech at Akron Convention / S. Truth (read by R. Dee) (2:05) -- Singing slaves / F. Douglass (read by O. Davis) (1:03) -- Steal away to Jesus / K. West (1:50) -- What to the slave is the Fourth of July? / F. Douglass (read by O. Davis) (2:36) -- Why slavery is still rampant / S.P. Parker (read by R. Dee) (1:47) -- Free at last / D. Reed and V.H. Ward (1:33) -- When Malindy sings / P.L. Dunbar (read by M. Walker) (3:48) -- There's a great camp meeting / Fisk Jubilee Singers (2:01) -- Atlanta Exposition address / B.T. Washington (1:16) -- John Henry / B. McGhee and S. Terry (4:03) -- Banjo player / F. Johnson (read by A. Bontemps) (0:44) -- Boatman dance / E. Cotten (1:42) -- Shine / P. Randolph (1:03) -- Chopping in the new ground / Inmates of Ramsay or Retrieve State Farms, TX (1:37) -- Lynching, our national crime / I.B. Wells-Barnett (read by R. Dee) (3:43) -- A recorded autobiography / W.E.B. Du Bois (2:33) -- Listen Lord, a prayer / J.W. Johnson (read by M. Walker) (2:55) -- My heart is fixed / G. Davis (2:04) -- The Titanic / Lead Belly (4:04) -- Heritage / C. Cullen (2:58) -- Jungle drums / J.P. Johnson (2:32). No more auction block / P. Robeson (2:09) -- Negro speaks of rivers / L. Hughes (0:43) -- If we must die / C. McKay (0:57) -- Ma Rainey / S. Brown (2:06) -- Backwater blues / B.B. Broonzy (2:47) -- Married man blues / B. and D.D. Pierce (5:11) -- For my people / M. Walker (5:41) -- Children of the poor, sonnet 2 / G. Brooks (0:47) -- Body and soul / G. Nicholas (3:48) -- How He delivered me / J. Johnson & the Gospel Tones (2:39) -- Long distance call / M. Waters (6:58) -- Cry to me / S. Burke (2:13) -- Ain't gonna let nobody turn me around / SNCC Freedom Singers (2:31) -- Birmingham 1963 - Keep moving / M.L. King, Jr. (3:42) -- Black Panther Party platform / B. Seale (2:59) -- Interview (excerpt) / A. Davis (1:05) -- Together to the tune of Coltrane's "Equinox" / S.W. Fabio (1:40) -- Nikki-Rosa / N. Giovanni (1:12) -- Liberation/poem / S. Sanchez (0:34) -- Dope / A. Baraka (4:48) -- Village of Brooklyn, Illinois / H. Bluiett (3:30) -- For the poets / J. Cortez (3:56) -- Shotgun Joe / Golden Eagles (5:19) -- St. Louis woman / I. Reed (1:26) -- People everyday / Arrested Development (3:27).
Track Information:
101 The Struggle / Langston Hughes.
102 Field Call / Annie Grace Horn Dodson.
103 Complaint Call / Enoch Brown.
104 Intro and Knee Bend / Doretha Skipper, Lawrence McIver.
105 Brother Terrapin, Slow Train to Arkansas / Rich Amerson.
106 Jack and Mary and Three Dogs / Janie Hunter.
107 Buck Dance (excerpt) / Joech Tucker, Scott Dunbar.
108 I'm Goin' Up North / Children of East York School.
109 Pharaoh's Host Got Lost / Lawrence McIver.
110 Bar Fights / Arna Wendell Bontemps, Lucy Terry.
111 Earl of Dartmouth (excerpt) / Dorothy Washington, Phillis Wheatley.
112 I Wonder Where My Brother Gone / Annie Grace Horn Dodson.
114 Speech at Akron Convention / Ruby Dee, Sojourner Truth.
115 Singing Slaves / Frederick Douglass, Ossie Davis.
116 Steal Away to Jesus / Kinsey West.
117 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? (excerpt) / Frederick Douglass, Ossie Davis.
118 Why Slvery is Still Rampant (excerpt) / Ruby Dee, Sarah Parker Remond.
119 Free At Last / Dock Reed, Vera Hall.
120 When Malindy Sings / Margaret Walker, Paul Laurence Dunbar.
121 There's A Great Camp Meeting / Jubilee Singers, John W. (John Wesley) Work, Mary Ferguson.
122 Atlanta Exposition Address / Booker T. Washington.
123 John Henry / Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry.
124 Banjo Player / Arna Wendell Bontemps, Fenton Johnson.
125 Boatman Dance / Elizabeth Cotten.
126 Shine / Percy Randolph.
127 Chopping in the New Ground / Inmates of Ramsey or Retrieve.
128 Lynching, Our National Crime / Ruby Dee, Ida B. Wells-Barnett.
129 A Recorded Autobiography / Moses Asch, W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt) DuBois.
130 Listen Lord, A Prayer / Margaret Walker, James Weldon Johnson.
131 My Heart is Fixed / Gary Davis.
132 The Titanic / Lead Belly.
133 Heritage / Countee Cullen.
134 Jungle Drums / James P. (James Price) Johnson.
201 No More Auction Block / Paul Robeson.
202 The Negro Speaks of Rivers / Langston Hughes.
203 If We Must Die / Claude McKay.
204 Ma Rainey / Sterling Brown.
205 Backwater Blues / Bill Broonzy.
206 Married Man Blues / Billie Pierce, De De Pierce.
207 For My People / Margaret Walker.
208 The Children of the Poor, Sonnet 2 / Gwendolyn Brooks.
209 Body and Soul / David Jackson, Big Nick Nicholas, John Miller.
210 How He Delivered Me / Gospel Tones (Vocal group), Juanita Johnson.
211 Long Distance Calls / Otis Spann, Muddy Waters.
212 Cry To Me / Realtones, Marc Ribot, Solomon Burke.
213 Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around / Freedom Singers.
214 Birmingham 1963 - Keep Moving / Martin Luther, Jr. King.
215 Black Panther Party Platform / Bobby Seale.
216 Interview (excerpt) / Angela Yvonne Davis.
217 Together to the Tune of Coltrane's "Equinox" (excerpt) / Ronald Fabio, Sarah Webster Fabio, Wayne Wallace.
218 Nikki-Rosa / Nikki Giovanni.
219 liberation/poem / Sonia Sanchez.
220 Dope / Imamu Amiri Baraka.
221 The Village of Brooklyn, Illinois 62059 (excerpt) / Hamiet Bluiett.
222 For the Poets / Jayne Cortez.
223 Shotgun Joe / Golden Eagles (Musical group), Joseph Boudreaux.
224 St. Louis Woman / Ishmael Reed.
225 People Everyday / Arrested Development (Musical group).
Local Numbers:
SF-COMM-CD-47003
Smithsonian Folkways.47003
Publication, Distribution, Etc. (Imprint):
Washington, D.C. Smithsonian Folkways 2001
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: Birmingham (Ala.), Albany (Ga.), Washington (D.C.), Texas, New Orleans (La.), Louisiana, Chapel Hill (N.C.), North Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, New York, United States.
General:
Commercial
compiled, annotated and produced by Robert H. Cataliotti
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.
Collection Rights:
Copyright restrictions apply. Contact archives staff for additional information.
Recorded by Moses Moon (known at the time as Alan Ribback) and assisted by Norris McNamara during 1963 and 1964, the collection includes audio recordings of interviews with civil rights leaders and participants as well as free-style recordings of mass meetings, voter registration events, and other gatherings organized by Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). This collection provides a mostly unfiltered documentation of significant moments in the civil rights movement.
Scope and Contents:
This collection consists of 115 reel to reel audio recordings containing interviews, mass meetings, demonstrations, and conversations concerning the civil rights movement, and in particular the voter registration drives organized by SNCC in Alabama and Mississippi in 1963 and 1964. Mass meetings were recorded in Greenwood, Mississippi; Americus, Georgia; Selma, Alabama; Jackson, Mississippi; Danville, Virginia; Washington, D.C.; Hattiesburg, Mississippi; and Indianola, Mississippi. Major demonstrations recorded include the March on Washington in August of 1963, Freedom Day in Selma, Alabama in October of 1963, and Freedom Day in Hattiesburg, Mississippi in January of 1964. Interviews with SNCC workers include Julian Bond, John Lewis, James Forman, Bruce Gordon, Prathia Hall, Ivanhoe Donaldson, Bob Moses, Avery Williams, Willie Peacock, Bruce Boynton and his mother, as well as dozens of others involved in the movement, who are named in the collection inventory. Many of those interviewed were actively involved in strategizing and carrying out SNCC demonstrations and political actions, and many were victims of death threats, beatings, unlawful arrest, police brutality, and torture and abuse in prison. These interviews contain detailed eyewitness accounts and personal testimony regarding these experiences, as well as personal history and thoughts about the movement, the South, and the future.
It is clear from what we know of the dates and locations of these recordings, as well as from documentation of these events in other sources, that many of these recordings are unique documents of important events in American history, which may also contain the commentary of important political and cultural figures who were involved in the movement. For example, an article by Howard Zinn recounts how an unidentified man recorded James Baldwin on October 7, 1963, Freedom Day in Selma, on the steps of the courthouse. Baldwin was furious at the lack of support from nearby federal agents as state troopers advanced on peaceful demonstrators. One of the tapes dated October 7, 1963, originally labeled "courthouse interviews," appears to be this recoding, although Baldwin is not named. The same article (available in The Howard Zinn Reader) recounts the mass meetings which led up to that demonstration, at which actor Dick Gregory gave a rousing sermon as his wife sat in jail for demonstrating in Selma. The Moses Moon Collection may be the only existing audio recording of that sermon as well as many other sermons and speeches.
Moses Moon changed his name after these recordings were made. He is referred to in the finding aid as Alan Ribback because that name is used on the recordings.
Arrangement:
The collection is arranged in two series.Series 1 is in chronological order to the degree recording dates can be determined, and is based on the locations and dates provided by Moon in his description or gleaned from the recordings themselves and other secondary sources. Series 1 contains 17 groups of recordings.
Moon's original numbers are recorded in the column next to the descriptions. Following the first four Greenwood tapes, which are numbered sequentially, Moon's numbering system took the first two letters of the town in which the recordings were made, a one (1), a decimal, and then a tape number. Numbers preceding the town code refer to the recording day. "N" numbers were later assigned by Moon to the 7" reels only, after the original recordings were made, possibly during editing or when the tapes were made available to the Program in African American Culture.
Series 1, Original Tapes
1. Greenwood, Mississippi; Spring 1963; 4 7" reels
2. Chicago, Illinois; August 9, 12, 1963; 2 5" reels
16. Monroe County, Mississippi; August 1, 1964; 4 5" reels
17. Milton, Mississippi; August 16, 1964; 3 5" reels
Series 2, Preservation Masters consists of data DVDs for a portion of the collection.
Biographical / Historical:
Moses Moon was born Alan Ribback in 1928. During the 1950s until 1962, Ribback was the proprietor of the Gate of Horn, Chicago's premier folk music club, which featured performers including Bob Gibson, Odetta, Judy Collins, Joan Baez, Jo Mapes, Peter, Paul and Mary, Lenny Bruce, and Shelley Berman. On December 5, 1962, Lenny Bruce was arrested during a performance at the Gate of Horn along with Ribback, George Carlin, and others. As a result of the arrest and Bruce's subsequent conviction for obscenity, the club was closed by the City of Chicago, and Ribback left Chicago with Norris McNamara, an audio technician, to record folk concerts taking place in the South as part of the growing civil rights movement. From the spring of 1963 until the summer of 1964, Ribback and McNamara recorded demonstrations and mass meetings and interviewed civil rights activists, primarily those involved in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Later, Ribback moved to New York and edited his recordings into an album called Movement Soul. Ribback married Delia Moon in 1971, took her last name and changed his first name to Moses. In 1979, Bernice Reagon Johnson, working with the Program on African American Culture at the Smithsonian, contacted Moon and borrowed the recordings of mass meetings for a 1980 program on the voices of the civil rights movement. In the late 1980s, Moon was stricken with a severe case of Guillain-Barre syndrome, which left him paralyzed. Moon donated the entire collection of original recordings shortly before his death in 1993.
Related Materials:
Materials at Other Organizations
The papers of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee are held by the King Library and Archives in Atlanta, Georgia; archives@thekingcenter.org.
Provenance:
Donated by Moses and Delia Moon in 1995.
Restrictions:
Collection is open for research. Reference copies must be used. Tapes noted in the container list have digital reference copies in the Smithsonian Institution Digital Asset Management System (DAMS).
Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but copyright status unknown. Contact Archives Center staff for additional information. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Topic:
African American civil rights workers. Search this
Moses Moon Civil Rights Movement Audio Collection, 1963-1964, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Partial funding for preservation and duplication of the original audio tapes provided by a National Museum of American History Collections Committee Jackson Fund Preservation Grant.
Children participate in a dance and dramatic performance at the Ft. Dupont Activity Center in southeast Washington, D.C. They perform to music, narration, and a portion of Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech.
Dance performance. Part of ACM Museum Events, PR, and Ceremonies Recordings. AV000800: #1, no sound, dated 19750215. AV003475: #2, dated 19750215. AV004350: p. 1, undated. AV003189: p. 2, undated. Poor or no sound.
Local Numbers:
ACMA AV003475
ACMA AV004350
ACMA AV003189
General:
Title transcribed from physical asset.
Collection Restrictions:
Use of the materials requires an appointment. Some items are not accessible due to obsolete format and playback machinery restrictions. Please contact the archivist at acmarchives@si.edu.
ABC News Washington broadcast covers riots, civil rights, and other news post-assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King (MLK). The focus of the broadcast is the spirit of Dr. King's optimism and a tribute to MLK via songs, speeches, prayer by others. The recording also includes coverage from Morehouse College and of Dr. King's funeral at Ebenezer Baptist Church (Atlanta, GA), including sermon delivered by Rev. Ralph Abernathy.
News broadcast. Part of Broadcast Programs. Undated.
Collection Restrictions:
Use of the materials requires an appointment. Some items are not accessible due to obsolete format and playback machinery restrictions. Please contact the archivist at acmarchives@si.edu.
The radio broadcast program - Martin Luther King Speaks - consists of clips from speeches delivered by Martin Luther King; the program broadcasted weekly. This particular episode of Martin Luther King Speaks contains clips of speeches which highlight MLK's calls for nonviolent, revolutionary change, including questioning the whole of society and seeing the work of Jesus Christ as revolutionary; love over hate; and truth and justice over fear. The episode broadcasted on Martin Luther King Sunday and was specifically produced as a birthday tribute with information on how listeners can make Martin Luther King's birthday - January 15 - a national holiday. One of the recordings includes, after full broadcast of Martin Luther King Speaks, a portion of MLK's Drum Major speech about what MLK would like to be said at his funeral.
Radio broadcast program. Part of Broadcast Programs. Broadcast date (from contents of recording): 19690112. AV003516, AV003533: same content, undated. AV003481: includes a portion of MLK's Drum Major speech from 003010-003348, undated.
Local Numbers:
ACMA AV003481
ACMA AV003533
Collection Restrictions:
Use of the materials requires an appointment. Some items are not accessible due to obsolete format and playback machinery restrictions. Please contact the archivist at acmarchives@si.edu.
