The 1964 Berlin Jazz Festival and Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Author
- South Carolina Public Radio
- Published
- Tue 08 Apr 2025
- Episode Link
- https://play.prx.org/listen?ge=prx_11445_e9e4d330-d5c9-4c1c-b00f-aac4dfb413c3&uf=https%3A%2F%2Fpublicfeeds.net%2Ff%2F11445%2Ffeed-rss.xml
“God has wrought many things out of oppression,” begins Martin Luther King, Jr.’s famous essay occasioned by the first Berlin Jazz Festival in 1964. “He has endowed his creatures with the capacity to create—and from this capacity has flowed the sweet songs of sorrow and joy.”
Visit southcarolinapublicradio.org/rapponjazz for full transcripts.
