MLK Recording Found in Summerville

A 40-minute speech by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. given in Charleston in the 1960s has emerged from a Summerville home, 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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Edited 8:50 a.m. Nov. 30 to correct that the Summerville tape was not found in an attic, according to Crosby.