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MLK Recording Found in Summerville Attic
1960s recording of Civil Rights leader taped during Charleston stop.

A 40-minute speech by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. given in Charleston in the 1960s has emerged from an attic in Summerville, the Post and Courier reported.
Laura Crosby owns the tape. Her father recorded King in the 1960s as a reporter for the State newspaper, the Post and Courier reported. The article her father wrote following the taping was headlined "King Calls For Negroes To ‘Build, Baby, Build.'"
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