Conscience for Change (Audio cassette)

At the time of this broadcast, Dr. Martin Luther King was co-pastor, with his father, of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, and president and one of the founders of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 and received more than 250 citations for his work in civil rights. He was selected by Time as "Man of the Year" in 1963. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1929, he obtained degrees at Morehouse College and Crozer Theological Seminary after which he undertook further studies at the Universities of Pennsylvania and Harvard and obtained a Ph.D. degree in Systematic Theology from Boston University. He lectured extensively, and was the author of many books. King was turning his attention to a nation wide campaign to help the poor at the time of his assassination on April 4, 1968. He was only 39 at the time of his death.

The five radio broadcasts recorded here were heard in November and December of 1967 as the seventh annual series of Massey Lectures.