Civil Rights Organization Places Historical Records with Emory University
Historical records for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, including sympathy cards when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, have been placed with Emory University’s Manuscript Archives and Rare Book Library.
March 10th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
I truly don’t understand how historical oppressed people can place their most precious historical records with institutions and organizations that originally and in some ways today did not care to be associate with. Out of all the Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the Atlanta area, the SCLC decided to choose Emory University, whom until the 1960s did not accept African Americans. Are these civil rights organization staying to true to their mission??