“When people are walking the streets hungry and they have no jobs, and they see life as a long and desolate corridor with no exit sign, they become bitter, before offering hope for change,” King said. The recording, long thought lost to history, was recovered by archivist Derek Bolin and Tim Groeling, of the UCLA Department of Communication Studies. MLK pictured at the bottom of UCLA’s Janss Steps delivering the famed speech In 2015, as America celebrated what would have been the 86th birthday of the civil rights icon murdered for his then polarizing fight for racial equality, an audio recording of King’s address at UCLA on April 27th, 1965 has been uncovered. paid a visit to the Los Angeles’ Westside, delivering a speech before a crowd at the University of California Los Angeles. WESTWOOD-Three years prior to his assassination in Memphis, Tennessee, Martin Luther King Jr.
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