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VoR releases MLK Jr speech, lost for 47 years - News - World - The Voice of Russia: News, Breaking news, Politics, Economics, Business, Russia, International current events, Expert opinion, podcasts, Video:

Martin Luther King Jr. is one figure, whose importance, eloquence and efforts for the Civil Rights movement had a profound effect not just in shaping American history but also helping to make the "American Dream" a real possibility for all citizens.

Now, a piece of our shared history and Dr. King's legacy has been recovered. In 1967, at the alumni field house of St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia, a speech was given. Now, approximately forty-seven years later, it is being heard for the first time... on Radio VR thanks to Tom Lingenfelter, a collector and detective of American history based in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.

Read more: http://voiceofrussia.com/2014_01_11/VoR-releases-speech-of-MLK-Jr-which-was-lost-47-years-ago-2346/