Houston Clergymen on MLK (1968)

Duration: 4:23

Year Published: 1968

Sound: sound

Description: In this news segment for Houston’s KPRC-TV, broadcast on April 5, 1968, local clergymen discuss the impact of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who was shot and killed by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee the day before. Several remark on Dr. King’s great accomplishments and call for the continuance of his work in the United States. Please note that the film uses dated language to describe African Americans, indicative of the time in which it was produced. The Texas Archive of the Moving Image does not condone the use of the term "negro," but presents this film as it was originally created, because to do otherwise would be the same as to claim this term never existed.