Martin Luther King, Jr.
UMass Massachusetts Daily Collegian clippings on MLK assassination
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Telex messages from day of MLK assassination
The telex network was a ca. 1940s-1970s public network of teleprinters used to send text-based messages. Customers on any telex exchange could deliver messages to any other, around the world. The underground press Liberation News Service used telex to send news updates and stories between its journalists and offices in Washington D.C., NYC, and Berkeley, CA.
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Transcript of a speech by Dr. King paying tribute to W. E. B. Du Bois. Given at Carnegie Hall February 23, 1968 on the 100th anniversary of Du Bois's birth.
Circular letter from Fulton County Jail
From his cell at Fulton County Jail, warning recipients that "courage, determination, even willingness to risk death do not guarantee victory in this struggle"; "Funds are needed for legal defense"; informing the reader of recent efforts by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to register voters in twelve souther cities and so urging them to contribute "as generously as you can."
Continuing the Poor People's Campaign after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Sep 15, 1968