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Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking to reporters during the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's annual convention, Savannah, Georgia, 1964 October 1

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In this series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips from Savannah, Georgia on October 1, 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaks to reporters at a press conference during the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's annual meeting. The audio portion of the clip is inconsistent.Dr. King announces the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) will focus efforts for the next few months in Alabama and Mississippi where he alleges that some federal judges are using the courts to delay integration. He declares that where possible the SCLC will fight the status quo in the courts and when that is not possible, will use "massive demonstrations to call attention to these problems and to place it again before the forefront of the conscience of the nation. SCLC-led voter registration initiatives in Alabama and Mississippi continued past the 1964 election and included the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama which helped promote the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights bill.Next King discusses the civil rights situation in Albany, Georgia. King affirms that even though civil rights work in Albany in 1961 and 1962 did not end segregation, the city changed and "could never be the same again." He claims that the SCLC planned to return to Albany after the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act but upon examination found the city's compliance with the law made a return unnecessary. During the summer of 1961, members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee came to Albany and began encouraging civil rights work. The Albany Movement began...
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King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
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Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

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Digital Library of Georgia

Keywords

  1. African American Civil Rights Workers
  2. African Americans
  3. Alabama
  4. Camera Operators
  5. Civil Rights
  6. Civil Rights Demonstrations
  7. Civil Rights Movements
  8. Civil Rights Workers
  9. Congresses And Conventions
  10. Direct Action
  11. Economic Conditions
  12. Election
  13. Georgia
  14. Judges
  15. Law And Legislation
  16. Legislators
  17. Mississippi
  18. New York (State)
  19. Poverty
  20. Presidents
  21. Press Conferences
  22. Public Welfare
  23. Race Riots
  24. Reporters And Reporting
  25. Savannah
  26. Segregation
  27. Social Justice
  28. United States
  29. Violence
  30. Voter Registration
  31. Voting

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