Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. talks about the civil rights
movement, nonviolence, and his work in Africa in a newly
discovered audio interview found in a Chattanooga attic. Stephon
Tull found the audio reel labeled "Dr. King interview, Dec. 21,
1960" in his father's house, borrowed a reel-to-reel player, and
heard his father interviewing King. "No words can describe. I
couldn't believe it," Tull tells the AP. "I found ... a lost
part of history." Though there are many recordings of King, a
historian says this one is important because he discusses his
time in Africa—a subject not raised in much of the audio that
exists. African leaders "agree that in the United States we must
solve this problem of racial injustice if we expect to maintain
our leadership in the world," King says in the recording. Tull's
father, an insurance salesman, interviewed King for a book he
was planning to write—but never did—about racism he encountered
in his life. Click for more King quotes from the recording,
which Tull plans to sell.