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Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking about the Summer Community Organization and Political Education (SCOPE) project, Atlanta, Georgia, 1965 June

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In this series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips from June 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaks to an audience about the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's (SCLC) Summer Community Organization and Political Education (SCOPE) project. The clip's audio and video is inconsistent; comments and visuals may not be completely recorded. Dr. King emphasizes the connection between political and economic power and indicates the significance of SCOPE's plans to assist African Americans with voter registration.Following a break in the clip, there is audio of King commenting on his experience traveling in Africa, but the visual is missing. An unidentified man leads the audience in singing "We shall not be moved" while King sits on the dais. King cites SCOPE's potential influence by pointing out the number of African Americans elected to serve in the 1966 Georgia General Assembly--two State Senators and at least seven members of the House of Representatives. King specifically commends Georgia State Senators Leroy Johnson and Horace T. Ward. In January, 1966 when the newly elected legislators were to begin their terms of service, one of the African Americans elected to the House of Representatives, Julian Bond, was prevented by the legislature from taking his seat for statements he made supporting a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee statement against the Vietnam War. The Untied States Supreme Court in December 1966 ruled that the legislature's actions were unconstitutional and Bond was sworn in to office in January, 1967, serving in the House of Representatives until 1974.King urges his audience to support...
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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 Legislators
  3. African Americans
  4. Atlanta
  5. Civil Rights
  6. Civil Rights Movements
  7. Civil Rights Workers
  8. Economic Conditions
  9. Georgia
  10. Government
  11. Legislators
  12. Politics And Government
  13. Poverty
  14. Social Justice
  15. Southern States
  16. Suffrage
  17. United States
  18. Voter Registration
  19. Voting
  20. We Shall Not Be Moved (Song)

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