John Zach Remembers MLK-1
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Martin Luther King Day has been a holiday for almost thirty years now 45 years after his assassination but -- and -- -- has the story now of one of our own. Who vividly remembers living in a segregated south. And his time. What Doctor King . That was a very hostile environment where people. Didn't like. Black people born and raised in buffalo John's -- first radio job took him to the deep self Albany Georgia where he experienced segregation and racism. Like you'd only read about books seeing drinking problems. -- he was 1960. In it was government enforced racism can only be described using that awful word that was then an official term. He even used in police reports. They would describe the suspect -- just arrested that would destroy them as an African American. For a black man they described as a (%expletive). Right on the police report I saw -- well I usually Albany Georgia police department. After a few years in Georgia John -- back to buffalo only to be sent back to cover the story of a lifetime I was newsmen at WWW. Laws. -- -- Took advantage of my knowledge of southwest Georgia. And but rescinded under the cover the story John was there -- Martin Luther King spoke twice at small churches it was the collections made there at those churches that financed the entire civil rights movement vividly
