Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on the need for direct action

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KPIX Eyewitness News report from February 27th 1967 in San Francisco featuring a brief except from a sermon by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., emphasizing that direct action is needed to address racial segregation: "Prayer alone will not solve the problem of racial injustice. You see God never intended for us to make prayer a substitute for work and intelligence."

Originally aired on
KPIX-TV
Date aired
2/27/1967
Recording medium
16mm, b&w co-magnetic sound film
1:07
Rights for this video belong to
CBS5 KPIX-TV
Type of material
archival news film
Identifier
KPIX 30502
Views
5322

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