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MLK: Address at the Conclusion of the Selma to Montgomery March

by drkeithcox | Aug 30, 2019 | 14 The Sixties US, Primary Sources, Resources

March 25, 1965 My dear and abiding friends, Ralph Abernathy, and to all of the distinguished Americans seated here on the rostrum, my friends and co-workers of the state of Alabama, and to all of the freedom-loving people who have assembled here this afternoon from...

MLK: How Long? Not Long!

by drkeithcox | Aug 30, 2019 | Media, Primary Sources, Resources, Video

Dr. King reminds us of the inevitable victory of justice.

BBC: Mystery of a Victorian-era wreck in Arctic waters

by drkeithcox | Aug 30, 2019 | History Matters, Main

Researchers in Canada have been exploring HMS Terror from the ill-fated Franklin Expedition.   Mystery of a Victorian-era wreck in Arctic waters Researchers in Canada have been exploring HMS Terror from the ill-fated Franklin Expedition.

Edward R. Murrow – See It Now – McCarthy (03-09-1954)

by drkeithcox | Aug 30, 2019 | Primary Sources, Resources, Video

“See It Now” on CBS – March 9, 1954. “A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy”

Martin Luther King ‘I Have a Dream’

by drkeithcox | Aug 29, 2019 | Audio, Primary Sources, Resources

This is an audio recording of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. giving the “I Have a Dream” speech during the Civil Rights rally on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963.
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