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WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking about ongoing discrimination and the benefits of nonviolence, Atlanta, Georgia, 1965 November 10

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In this WSB newsfilm clip from November 10, 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers a speech before the Atlanta Press Club, where he addresses racism in the Southern justice system, tokenism in desegregation practices, and affirms his conviction in nonviolent direct action. The audio quality of the clip is poor.The clip is divided into two segments. The first segment of the clip begins with King addressing the audience (off-camera) at an Atlanta Press Club meeting. He states that recent events in Lowndes County, Alabama, "suggest that the whole structure of Southern justice is contaminated with racism and corrupted by color consciousness," a reference to the recent acquittal of Klansman Collie Leroy Wilkins, the accused killer of civil rights activist Viola Liuzzo, by an all-white jury in Hayneville, Alabama. King suggests that the system needs "drastic alteration."After a jump in the clip, King proposes the adoption of a "Selma-Montgomery-type" model of nonviolent direct action in order to "arouse the conscience of the nation," noting that he and others are prepared to initiate this activity. He states that he is still convinced that nonviolent direct action protest is the best way to "improve the inadequacies existing in the American social system" and notes that nonviolent resistance wears down on the opponent of such tactics because it "exposes his moral defenses, weakens his morale, and at the same time, it works on his conscience." He further endorses nonviolent resistance by adding that "it also makes it possible for the individual to struggle...
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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 American Clergy
  3. African Americans
  4. Alabama
  5. Atlanta
  6. Atlanta (Ga.)
  7. Civil Rights
  8. Civil Rights Demonstrations
  9. Civil Rights Movements
  10. Civil Rights Workers
  11. Clergy
  12. Clubs
  13. Courts
  14. Crimes Against
  15. Direct Action
  16. Discrimination
  17. Georgia
  18. Government
  19. Government, Resistance To
  20. Hate Crimes
  21. Hayneville
  22. Hayneville (Ala.)
  23. History
  24. Intervention (Federal Government)
  25. Jury
  26. Jury Selection
  27. Justice
  28. Justice, Administration Of
  29. Law And Legislation
  30. Mississippi
  31. Murder
  32. Nonviolence
  33. Offenses Against The Person
  34. Officials And Employees
  35. Passive Resistance
  36. Prejudices
  37. Press
  38. Qualifications
  39. Race Discrimination
  40. Race Relations
  41. Racism
  42. Religious Aspects
  43. Reporters And Reporting
  44. Rules And Practice
  45. Secretaries
  46. Segregation
  47. Segregationists
  48. Selma
  49. Social Conditions
  50. Social Justice
  51. Southern States
  52. Speeches, Addresses, Etc
  53. Supervision Of
  54. Trials
  55. Trials (Civil Rights)
  56. Trials (Hate Crimes)
  57. Trials (Murder)
  58. United States
  59. Violence Against
  60. Voter Registration
  61. Women

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