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1966 Pitt News sidebar examines King’s speech in Oakland

Editor’s note: This story appeared in the Nov. 4, 1996 Pitt News as an attendum to… Editor’s note: This story appeared in the Nov. 4, 1996 Pitt News as an attendum to another story running that day about the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech here. In the interest of preserving historical accuracy, it appears here completely unchanged from the 1962 version.

Dr. King Confronts Questions

Friday, Nov. 4, 1966

By Fred Frank

Does the Negro hate the American Jew? Will the election of Lester Maddox retard the cause of civil rights? How is the war in South Vietnam affecting race relations? These were some of the questions fired at Martin Luther King while he was on campus Wednesday. The working press found that King fired right back with definitive answers on each subject.

The White Backlash

King claimed the California gubernatorial candidate Ronald Reagan

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