MLK

MLK speech 1964 ASU, AZ

While shopping last year at a Goodwill store, Phoenix resident Mary Scanlon found a box of dirty and aged reel-to-reel recordings that the proprietor said were donated by deceased Phoenix businessman and civil rights leader Lincoln Ragsdale, Sr. There were 35 tapes in all, and one proved to be a previously unknown recording of a speech Martin Luther King, Jr. gave at Arizona State University in June of 1964 – less than one month before the landmark Civil Rights Act was signed.

Read more at Unknown recording of 1964 MLK speech at ASU discovered, Posted: January 22, 2014

or listen to the MLK speech of 1964 at ASU

So why did the Mass Media try to forget this speech?