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Why Are You Here?, Address at the Summer Community Organization and Political Education orientation

https://okra.stanford.edu/link/document650615-007
Author
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Place Written
[Atlanta, Ga.]
Document Date
[6/15/1965]
Genre
Audio Speech
Document Type
Audio Tape
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Author
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Author Dates
1929-1968
Document ID
650615-007
Document Date
[6/15/1965]
Document Type
Audio Tape
Status
Undecided
Place Written
[Atlanta, Ga.]
Genre
Audio Speech
Document Length
32.6 minutes
Document Note
1 tape: analog
Dates
1965
1870
1955
1820
1776
6/21/1965
Names
Williams, Hosea
Rustin, Bayard
King, Coretta Scott
Jefferson, Thomas
Henry, Patrick
Sandburg, Carl
Hugo, Victor
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Parks, Rosa
Paul, the Apostle, Saint
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines)
Bhave, Vinoba
Dickinson, William
Revere, Paul
Amos (Biblical prophet)
Isaiah (Biblical prophet)
Smith, Howard W.
Galileo
Organizations
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Congress of Racial Equality
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
United Nations
United States. Congress. House of Representatives
United States. Congress. Senate
United States. Supreme Court
Ku Klux Klan
Civil Service Commission
Scripto Manufacturing Company
Summer Community Organization and Political Education
U.S. News and World Report
SNCC Freedom Singers
Places
Montgomery, Ala.
Washington, D.C.
Congo
South Africa
Vietnam
Virginia
New Jersey
New York
China
Dominican Republic
India
Russia
Asia
Africa
Topics
Voter registration
Gandhism
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, 1963
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Student movements
Sit-ins
Civil rights movements
Voting Rights Act, 1965
Poverty
Labor Movement
political participation
Nonviolence
Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975
Disarmament
World Politics
Code for Location of Original
MLK/OH-GAMK
Location of Original
Martin Luther King, Jr., Oral History Collection, 1950-1968, Martin Luther King, Jr., Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Inc., Atlanta, Ga.
Copy Location (1)
MLKPP, Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
Date Created
2/13/2009 12:00:00 AM
Date Updated
10/17/2016 11:19:33 AM
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