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dc.contributor.authorJohnson, Charles
dc.contributor.authorMcWilliams, Jared
dc.date.accessioned2017-02-09T19:04:28Z
dc.date.available2017-02-09T19:04:28Z
dc.date.issued1957-07-02
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/963
dc.descriptionThis audio recording preserves a historic July 2, 1957 mass meeting called by the Tuskegee Civic Association (TCA) in the second month of the Tuskegee Boycott and Crusade for Citizenship. The main program includes a message from K. L. Buford, a local minister and activist in Tuskegee, and speeches of support by Fred Shuttlesworth, Ralph David Abernathy, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Devotions are delivered by E.G. Braxter, reports and remarks by C.G. Gomillion, President of the TCA, and the Financial Appeal by S. T. Martin. TCA called a mass meeting in response to Senate Bill 219, a bill sponsored by Macon County state senator and White Citizens' Council leader Sam Engelhardt. SB 219 dramatically redrew the Tuskegee city limits, in order to gerrymander all but 5 registered black voters out of the city. At the moment of crisis, these historic speeches urged the community to "get in it," and called for endurance and unity in the struggles to overturn SB 219 and to end second-class citizenship in Macon County. The recording has been transferred from two sides of a 7 inch reel-to-reel tape preserved in the Tuskegee University Archives' TCA audio collection.en_US
dc.description.abstractAudio recording of July 2, 1957 mass meeting called by the Tuskegee Civic Association (TCA) in the second month of the Tuskegee Boycott and Crusade for Citizenship. Main program includes speeches by K. L. Buford, a local minister and activist in Tuskegee, and civil rights leaders Fred Shuttlesworth, Ralph David Abernathy, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Transferred from 7in reel-to-reel in Tuskegee University Archives' TCA audio collection.en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherTuskegee Civic Associationen_US
dc.subjectTuskegeeen_US
dc.subjectCivil Rightsen_US
dc.subjectSegregationen_US
dc.subjectK. L. Buforden_US
dc.subjectMartin Luther King Jr.en_US
dc.subjectRalph David Abernathyen_US
dc.subjectCharles Gomillionen_US
dc.subjectCivil Rights workersen_US
dc.subjectMacon Countyen_US
dc.subjectT. R. Newmanen_US
dc.subjectTuskegee Civic Associationen_US
dc.subjectTuskegee Boycotten_US
dc.subjectCrusade for Citizenshipen_US
dc.subjectSenate Bill 291en_US
dc.subjectSam Engelhardten_US
dc.titleTuskegee Civic Association Meeting #2 [July 2, 1957]: K.L. Buford, Fred Shuttlesworth, Ralph David Abernathy, and Martin Luther King Jr.en_US
dc.typeRecording, oralen_US


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