48213

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Please see full film @ • http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/wsbn/id:48213 • In this WSB newsfilm clip from Atlanta, Georgia in June 1965 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaks to reporters at a Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) press conference with Hosea Williams and Bayard Rustin about work in Chicago and current political parties. The clip's audio is inconsistent; comments may not be completely recorded. • • The clip begins with Dr. King, Hosea Williams, and Bayard Rustin sitting at a table with microphones in front of them and a sign for the Summer Community Organization and Political Education (SCOPE) project, led by Hosea Williams with the assistance of Bayard Rustin, behind them. King praises president Lyndon B. Johnson for his creative leadership in the area of civil rights. He next asserts the importance of ending de facto segregation in cities like Chicago, where SCLC plans to bring these issues out into the open and to place it before the conscence of the community so that a change can take place. When asked if he has been invited to Chicago, King replies that leaders invited him to the city and that while he has been unable to go, he hopes to travel there soon.

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