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WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking about recent race riots in New York State as well as the 1964 presidential election, New York, New York, 1964 July 27

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In this WSB-TV newsfilm clip from July 27, 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaks about recent race riots in New York City and Rochester, New York and comments on the role of race relations in the 1964 presidential election. Dr. King, sitting at a desk with microphones in front of him, answers questions from an unidentified off-screen reporter indicating that New York City mayor Robert F. Warner reached him July 24 while he was in Mississippi to ask him to come to New York to try and help curb racial tensions in the city. Commenting on reports of "strong subversive and Communist elements identified" in rioting in the neighborhoods of Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant, King suggests that while Communist groups may take advantage of African American discontent, he believes the rioting in New York is a result of a white, off-duty policeman shooting an African American boy. On July 10 an off-duty policeman shot and killed an African American young man the officer said was carrying a knife. The killing sparked rioting in Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant.Another unidentified reporter asks King if continued civil rights demonstrations will hurt president Lyndon B. Johnson's campaign for reelection. King recognizes that violent demonstrations do more to help Republican candidate senator Barry M. Goldwater, who he accuses of capitalizing "on the so-called white backlash whether he admits it publicly or not." He calls upon demonstrations before the election to be "well-disciplined and dignified." After a July 30 meeting with leaders from several prominent civil rights...
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Contributors:
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. Bedford Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)
  4. Civil Rights
  5. Civil Rights Demonstrations
  6. Civil Rights Workers
  7. Communism
  8. Complaints Against
  9. Demonstrations
  10. Direct Action
  11. Discrimination
  12. Election
  13. Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
  14. History
  15. Legislators
  16. Mayors
  17. New York
  18. New York (State)
  19. Nonviolence
  20. Passive Resistance
  21. Police
  22. Police Brutality
  23. Presidents
  24. Press Conferences
  25. Press Coverage
  26. Race Relations
  27. Race Riots
  28. Reporters And Reporting
  29. Rochester
  30. Rochester (N.Y.)
  31. Social Surveys
  32. Subversive Activities
  33. United States
  34. Violence

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