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Martin Luther King Jr. Massey Lecture # 3 + # 4

In November 1967 Martin Luther King delivered the Massey lectures on CBC Radio. The Masseys are a prestigious annual broadcast in which a noted Canadian or international scholar gives a weeklong series of lectures on a political, cultural or philisophical topic. King's title was "Conscience for Change." In the lectures, he talked about race relations, the war in Vietnam, youth and social action and non-violence as a tactic for social change. Today, the third lecture. It’s introduced by Ken Haslam.

The voice, the stories and the passion of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. It’s been forty years since he was assassinated, but his words still ring strong and his message still stirs. Today we’ll hear more from King’s Massey lectures, which first aired in 1967 on the CBC Radio program Ideas. Today the fourth of the . His title was "Conscience for Change." It's introduced by Ken Haslam.