Martin Luther King Jr. Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===New York City, 1964=== [[File:Martin Luther King press conference 01269u edit.jpg|thumb|King at a press conference in March 1964]] On February 6, 1964, King delivered the inaugural speech<ref>{{Cite web|last=King|first=Martin Luther|title=Lecture: The Summer of Our Discontent|url=https://digital.archives.newschool.edu/index.php/Detail/objects/NS070204_ARC_King_speech|access-date=January 14, 2022|website=The New School Archives And Special Collections|archive-date=January 14, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220114172227/https://digital.archives.newschool.edu/index.php/Detail/objects/NS070204_ARC_King_speech|url-status=live}}</ref> of a lecture series initiated at the [[New School]] called "The American Race Crisis". In his remarks, King referred to a conversation he had recently had with [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] in which he compared the sad condition of many African Americans to that of India's [[Dalit|untouchables]].<ref name="El Naggar">{{cite news|last=El Naggar|first=Mona|title=Found After Decades, a Forgotten Tape of King 'Thinking on His Feet{{'-}}|url=http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/22/found-after-decades-a-forgotten-tape-of-king-thinking-on-his-feet/|access-date=August 31, 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=August 22, 2013|archive-date=November 5, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105213505/http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/22/found-after-decades-a-forgotten-tape-of-king-thinking-on-his-feet/|url-status=live}}</ref> In his March 18, 1964, interview with [[Robert Penn Warren]], King compared his activism to his father's, citing his training in non-violence as a key difference. He also discusses the next phase of the civil rights movement and integration.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Martin Luther King Jr. {{!}} Who Speaks for the Negro?|url=https://whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu/interview/martin-luther-king-jr|access-date=January 18, 2021|website=whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu|archive-date=January 16, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210116121126/https://whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu/interview/martin-luther-king-jr|url-status=live}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page