This week on From the Vault we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Civil Rights by listening to a unique news documentary from our historic collection titled I Have A Dream. It was produced by Pacifica Radio three days after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4th, 1968 as a celebration of King’s life and work and to serve as genuine account of the revolutionary movements that were happening in the latter part of the decade. To help contextualize this radio documentary, Stanford University history professor Dr. Clayborne Carson explains the significance of the extraordinary audio for those who heard its original broadcast, and those hearing it for the first time today.
From the Vault is presented through the Pacifica Radio Archives Preservation and Access Project, funded in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, past grants from the Grammy Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the American Archive funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, along with the generous support of Pacifica Radio Listeners.
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