Discussion: University Unearths Long-Lost MLK Speech Recording

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As a 19 year old sophomore at UCLA I heard this speech and volunteered to go south in Dr.King’s SCOPE project, which I believe was first announced here. The speech was not the fiery church sermon that we’ve heard often from King, with it’s rising cadences and amen choruses, rather this was an intellectual explanation of the necessity of taking action, and the powerful force of agape. It stirred my mind and soul as much as anything I heard in college and set a course for my young life.

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This will give you added reason to celebrate MLK today—while laughing up your sleeve at the moronic Dinesh D’Felon.

As Dr. King said-----the urgent question is this, “What are you doing for others?”

D’Felon isn’t doing anything for others—except affording us an opportunity laugh at him yet again.

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A great American then, now and forever.

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We cannot be too grateful for archivists and librarians!

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Well, at least there might be one speech of MLK’s that Steven Spielberg doesn’t own the film copyrights to…or does he, now that this one has been ‘unearthed’ too? I think we can expect the descendants to lay claim to this one as well fairly soon.

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By the way, what an amazing speech!! Listened to the whole thing. Just beautifully poignant.

What a great teacher MLK was for the country. We really need more speakers that can draw on our history in regards to racial and social injustice from a moral standpoint, like MLK did, to the wider public at large. So many people still today don’t know American history, or refuse to accept it as it really existed for a large segment of black people in this country, and in many ways still does. That is what is sorely needed today…a basic reality check as MLK was able to do.

Unfortunately today, we can’t wait fortuitously for most politicians to step up to the plate and speak to the moral injustice that still exists. We need our media to cover new speakers and leaders for social justice. That seems to be what’s missing today as well. There’s still media apathy towards the ongoing struggle for civil rights as a whole, unless of course it fits neatly into a 10 minute block on cable tv.

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Librarians should be the secret masters of humanity.

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Will the King family demand royalties from the University if it wants to play the speech?