Metadata
WORK ID: NEFA 19445 (Master Record)
| Title | Year | Date |
| MARTIN LUTHER KING HONORARY DEGREE CEREMONY AT NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY | 1967 | 1967-01-01 |
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Details
Original Format: 16mm Colour: Black & White Sound: Sound Duration: 9 mins 41 secs Credits: Tyne Tees TV Genre: Political Subject: Politics Education |
| Summary Tyne Tees Television coverage of Dr Martin Luther King Jr receiving an Honorary Doctorate in Civil Law in King's Hall at Newcastle University on the 13th November 1967. |
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Description
Tyne Tees Television coverage of Dr Martin Luther King Jr receiving an Honorary Doctorate in Civil Law in King's Hall at Newcastle University on the 13th November 1967.
Dr King and other recipients enter a hall at Newcastle University wearing cermonial gowns and mortarboards. A large crowd is seated in the hall. Dr King stands at the front beside his fellow recipients. They all remove and then replace their mortar boards before being seated.
Portrait shot of the University Chancellor,...
Tyne Tees Television coverage of Dr Martin Luther King Jr receiving an Honorary Doctorate in Civil Law in King's Hall at Newcastle University on the 13th November 1967.
Dr King and other recipients enter a hall at Newcastle University wearing cermonial gowns and mortarboards. A large crowd is seated in the hall. Dr King stands at the front beside his fellow recipients. They all remove and then replace their mortar boards before being seated.
Portrait shot of the University Chancellor, the Duke of Northumberland. Dr King stands in front the University Chancellor while another man gives an introduction from a nearby lectern.
At the end of the introduction the Chancellor stands, removes his mortar board and confers upon Dr King an Honorary Doctorate in Civil Law. The crowd begin to applaud.
Dr King walks over to the lectern and gives a speech to the crowd about racial justice. At the end of the speech he steps away from the lectern and returns to his seat. The film ends with a shot of the applauding crowd.
Context
A remarkable event – the great American civil rights leader, Martin Luther King makes a powerful speech on a unique visit to Newcastle University.
On 13th November 1967, an audience are gripped by an impromptu speech against racism, poverty and war by the great American civil rights leader, radical Baptist preacher, and holder of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize, Martin Luther King, as he accepts an Honorary Doctorate in Civil Law from the Duke of Northumberland at Newcastle University.
Martin...
A remarkable event – the great American civil rights leader, Martin Luther King makes a powerful speech on a unique visit to Newcastle University.
On 13th November 1967, an audience are gripped by an impromptu speech against racism, poverty and war by the great American civil rights leader, radical Baptist preacher, and holder of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize, Martin Luther King, as he accepts an Honorary Doctorate in Civil Law from the Duke of Northumberland at Newcastle University. Martin Luther King is most famously remembered for his inspirational “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial during the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, delivered to a crowd of more than 250,000 people. It is now considered one of the greatest speeches of the 20th century, and certainly influential in the passage of the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964. Tragically, it was a mere five months after his Newcastle University acceptance speech that Dr Martin Luther King was assassinated in a Memphis motel in Tennessee. |
