Booker T. Washington's address entitled The American Negro, was first given at the Atlanta Exposition on September 18, 1895. This recording is from a Columbia Gramophone Company cylinder dated 1906. Booker T. Washington was Principal of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama, and delivered this speech at the opening of the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia on September 18, 1895. Washington speaks on the improvement of race relations and conditions in the South.

King opens by using Henry David Thoreau to discuss nonviolence as part of the American tradition. He touches on jailed freedom riders, Abraham Lincoln, the Emancipation Proclamation, segregation, and John F. Kennedy.

Ralph Nader gives a talk on big business and the business lawyer. Nader says that lawyers are not only responsible to their clients, but to the public as well. In particular, he discusses the relationship between sanctions and the battle to regulate automobile safety. He also wonders why large law firms are not subject to greater scrutiny.

Ralph Nader continues answering questions from the audience. Topics include cigarettes and smoking, advertising, anti-ballistic missiles, economics as a profession, anti-trust work, Congress, student activism, taxes and profits, General Motors, pollution, and the law profession.

Marcus Garvey outlines the principles of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, which he founded. Speech given upon his return to the United States.

Explanation of the objectives of the Universal Negro Improvement Association.

A two part program on James Baldwin's, "Another Country." The narrator begins by giving a biographical account of James Baldwin's life, followed by speaking of his writing, both essay and novel. He then goes on to discuss "Another Country," beginning with a summary of the story's plot and characters.

Remarks made by Dorothy Day at the joint meeting. Topics include Day's firsthand experiences with the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi and Alabama, Oakland's House of Hospitality and Brother Antoninus, unemployment solutions, and organizing migrant workers. There is also a lengthy description of her 1962 trip to Cuba

Martin Luther King Jr. at a press conference at the Capitol, Washington

Martin Luther King, Jr., half-length portrait, facing left, with left arm raised, at freedom rally, Washington Temple Church

Rev. Martin Luther King, head-and-shoulders portrait, seated, facing front, hands extended upward, during a press conference

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and Mathew Ahmann, Executive Director of the National Catholic Conference for Interrracial Justice, in a crowd