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This audio recording features two episodes of Martin Luther King Speaks. In the first episode, a recording is shared of an address from Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) President Joseph E. Lowery at Operation PUSH's SCLC Day in Chicago, Illinois in June 1979. The recording begins with an introduction of Lowery from Operation PUSH founder Jesse Jackson. Lowery's speech focuses on racism in America, observing that discrimination and hostility to Black people is still strong in the United States. He talks about affirmative action, housing problems, unemployment, and other issues impacting the Black community. The second episode of Martin Luther King Speaks features an address from Joseph E. Lowery at a joint conference held by the National Conference of Black Churchmen and SCLC to examine the implications of the Jonestown, Guyana tragedy on the Black church. The two day conference was held on February 1-2, 1979 in San Francisco, California. In Lowery's speech, he discusses how the wholeness of the gospel must be respected in the Black church and that there can be no division of the gospel between the secular and the spiritual.The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generous support of the Joseph & Evelyn Lowery Institute for Justice and Human Rights, the Joseph Echols Lowery Irrevocable Trust, and other donors in supporting the processing and digitization of Morehouse College's Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection