King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968

  • From the Vault: Season 8 (2013)

    Item: 4 GB Jump Drive / MP3 format audio files Running time: 42 hours   This exclusive collection consists of the most recent episodes of Pacifica Radio Archives’ weekly national radio program From the Vault, which explores a wide range of American history through painstakingly restored audio recordings dating back to the dawn of community…

  • Nine years later: a Black panel on racism and civil rights since the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. part 2

    Large panel discussion on the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Dr. King Jr.’s impact upon the Civil Rights movement, South Africa, the Vietnam War and the Black community, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Affirmative Action programs, the Bakke decision, capitalism, socialism, COINTELPRO (Counter Intelligence Program), U.S. police forces, economics in the Black community,…

  • Democracy Now! April 4, 2003

    Hour 1: The United States is the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: We hear Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. speak out against the Vietnam War on the 35th anniversary of his assassination and talk with the Rev. James Lawson on MLK & war; We don’t do body counts says Gen. Tommy Franks:…

  • Democracy Now! April 4, 2003

    The United States is the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: We hear Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. speak out against the Vietnam War on the 35th anniversary of his assassination and talk with the Rev. James Lawson on MLK & war; We don’t do body counts says Gen. Tommy Franks: To counter…

  • Democracy Now! January 20, 2003

    From Washington, D.C. to San Francisco, Cairo to London, Tokyo to Paris to Antarctica, hundreds of thousands demonstrate against war; many invoked the memory of Martin Luther King, Jr.; On this Martin Luther King holiday, a conversation with his son Dexter Scott King; Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: Why I oppose the war in…

  • Democracy Now! January 15, 2003

    Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Jan. 15, 1929 April 4, 1968: To celebrate his birthday, we hear King outline his opposition to war; Sarah Jones performs Waking The American Dream, about new immigrants experience in America; she also discusses The Exonerated, a play about innocent death row prisoners; Your Revolution Will Not Happen Between…

  • Democracy Now! January 21, 2002

    CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS SPEAK ON KINGS LEGACY: CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE, A COMMITMENT TO CONSCIENCE, AND REFUSING TO BOW TO WHAT IS UNJUST ; BUT IF HE DOESNT DELIVER US, WE STILL ARE NOT GOING TO BOW: THE WORDS OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. ; BUT IF NOT: THE WORDS OF MARTIN LUTHER KING ; ACTOR/ACTIVIST…

  • Democracy Now! January 15, 2002

    Actor Danny Glover, is dropped from the list of speakers at a Martin Luther King Day celebration. He is then re-invited amidst an outpouring of public support. Martin Luther Kings opposition to U.S. foreign policy has been erased from mainstream history. Today, on his birthday, well break the silence with a rare speech on his…

  • Democracy Now! February 3, 1999

    Jackson Capital Center, Inc.; Kwame Ture Speech on FBI, CIA and MLK, Jr. |Jackson Capital Center, Inc. In the 1930’s, 40’s and 50’s, Mississippi;s political and financial leaders who ruled with Jim Crow laws and used violence to terrorize and itimidate black communities. In the 1990’s, Miss. white financial and political elite has resorted to…

  • Democracy Now! January 11, 1999

    Essay on Impeachment , the Sentate and the Supreme Court; The Klan Rallies on Martin Luther King Day; Cruelty and Neglect in Russian Orphanages |(6 Minutes) Essay on Impeachment, the Senate and the Supreme Court, Amy Goodman (8 Minutes)The Klan Rallies on Martin Luther King Day A federal judge ruled that the Ku Klux Klan…