Lost Speeches By Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Keep Surfacing
In recent years, some long-missing recordings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s speeches and interviews have come to light.
UCLA recently released a speech Dr. King gave in April 1965.
And in November 2013, a student intern at the New York State Museum in Albany discovered an audio 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 the intern found it.
WABE’s program “A Closer Look” re-broadcast a Jan. 20, 2014, interview Denis O’Hayer conducted with New York State Museum Director Mark Schaming. The museum has a web-based exhibition of the tape.
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