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C.W. Lee introduced Martin Luther King Jr. to the National Negro Funeral Directors Association in 1956.
March 21, 2024
C.W. Lee introduced Martin Luther King Jr. to the National Negro Funeral Directors Association in 1956.
March 21, 2024
“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…
At the time of this recording, Dr. King was president of the Montgomery Improvement Association, which guided the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
“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…
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