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The Birth of a New Age – Introducing Dr. King

C.W. Lee introduced Martin Luther King Jr. to the National Negro Funeral Directors Association in 1956.

The Birth of a New Age: Recording Dr. King

“The birth of a new age. The birth of a new age.”You’re listening to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Addressing the National Negro Funeral Directors Association in August of 1956. You’re on the Sound Beat.“Carlton Stevens was an engineer and not an audio engineer but as we understand it a metallurgical engineer. He kind of took it upon himself to say, to recognize, that this is going to be a speech worth recording.”Daniel Sarmiento is Curator, 20th century to present, at the Special Collections Research Center at the Syracuse University Libraries. “He enlisted a local artist Sterling Hykes to design…

The Birth of a New Age: The Montgomery Bus Boycott

At the time of this recording, Dr. King was president of the Montgomery Improvement Association, which guided the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

The Birth of a New Age: The Arc of Justice

“That’s the type of age that we live in. Bob Hope has described this age: it’s an age in which you might get a plane in Los Angeles, and by the time you take off develop hiccups, and you will “”hic”” in Los Angeles and “”hup”” in Washington D.C. You’re listening to the “The Birth of a New Age” a Memo Records LP from 1956, and you’re on the Sound Beat. You’re on the Sound Beat. Daniel Sarmiento is curator, 20th century to present, at the Special Collections Research Center at the Syracuse University Libraries. Hear more episodes featuring Birth…

The Birth of a New Age: There Comes a Time

“There comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.”

THE FIRST SINGING TELEGRAM



How Rudy Vallee’s 32nd birthday forever changed…the telegram?

You Don’t Surrender: Journal and Memoirs of Don Waful, a World War II POW

So begins the journal of Lieutenant Donald R Waful ’37, G’39 which he kept during part of the “3 Christmases and 3 birthdays” he spent behind enemy lines.  Captured by the German army and held captive from 1942-44, Waful recorded details of daily life, diversions the prisoners employed to pass the time, and his burgeoning love for Cassie, the enlisted nurse he’d become engaged to weeks before his capture. The journals, narrated by Brett Barry ’98, G13, tell just part of the story: four interview sessions conducted between 2018-19 gave Waful, then 103 years old, a chance to fill in…