Another Newly-Discovered Recording of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Surfaces in New York

  In the recent past, some long-missing recordings of Dr. Martin Luther King’s speeches and interviews have come to light.  The latest discovery is a tape of a 1962 speech Dr. King gave in New York City, to mark the 100th anniversary of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.  It turns out that recent arson fires at some Georgia churches played a key role in convincing Dr. King to make that speech in New York.  Historians already had a written transcript of the speech.  But the audio tape remained hidden until November, 2013, when a student intern found it at the New York State Museum in Albany, which opened a web-based exhibition of the tape today.  WABE’s Denis O’Hayer spoke with New York State Museum Director Mark Schaming.

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