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''The Risk of Being a Hero,'' Address at the Biltmore Hotel

https://okra.stanford.edu/link/document620209-002
Author
Walker, Wyatt Tee
Place Written
New York, N.Y.
Document Date
2/9/1962
Genre
Speech
Document Type
Document
Type of Writing
Typed
Autograph -- author's hand
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Author
Walker, Wyatt Tee
Author Affiliation
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Document ID
620209-002
Document Date
2/9/1962
Type of Writing
Typed
Autograph -- author's hand
Document Type
Document
Type of Signature
Signed (Handwritten signature of author)
Status
Cal. 8
Place Written
New York, N.Y.
Genre
Speech
Document Length
5 pp.
Names
Braden, Carl
Braden, Anne
Braden, James
Braden, Anita
Braden, Elizabeth
Brown, John
Garrison, William Lloyd
Lincoln, Abraham
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Organizations
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Congress of Racial Equality
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
United Nations
Democratic Party
Republican Party
Southern Conference Educational Fund
Biltmore Hotel (New York, N.Y.)
Places
Louisville, Ky.
Atlanta, Ga.
Boston, Mass.
Baltimore, Md.
Mississippi
Asia
Africa
North Carolina
Topics
Communism
Segregation--law and legislation
United States - Constitutional law
Conscientious objection
Emancipation Proclamation
conscientious objectors
Afro-Americans - Civil rights
Nonviolence
Code for Location of Original
MLKP-MBU
Location of Original
Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers, 1954-1968, Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, Boston University, Boston, Mass.
Location of Original - Detail
Box 121, folder 27
Copy Location (1)
MLKPP, Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
Date Created
3/8/2002 12:00:00 AM
Date Verified
03/18/2002
6/26/2024 dalai
Date Updated
6/26/2024 5:04:21 PM
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