The Tuskegee Civic Association (TCA) calling a mass meeting in response to Senate Bill 291, included a message from K. L. Buford, a local minister and activist in Tuskegee, and speeches of support by Fred Shuttlesworth, Ralph David Abernathy, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The 5th Anniversary of the Tuskegee Civic Association (TCA) guest speaker was Mrs. Amelia M. Tucker from Kentucky legislature and her topic foused on racism.
This Tuskegee Civic Association (TCA) meeting, featuring an appearance by Jackie Robinson, took place on the second anniversary of start of the TCA’s Crusade for Citizenship. The crusade was a voter registration and civil rights campaign that started in 1957 to fight Senate Bill 291.
Muhammad Ali discussed his life since defeating Cleveland Williams in the Astrodome, his conversion to the Nation of Islam, and his decision to change his name from Cassius Clay to Muhammad Ali. Ali then discussed his views on the efforts of the major Civil Rights leaders and their movement to seek equality.
Whitney M. Young is the last speaker in a lecture series held by Sperry and Hutchinson and sponsored by the Green Stamp Foundation. The theme of the lecture series was "Toward Civic Democracy in the South", and Mr. Young would be the final speaker discussing the social aspect of the theme.
Coretta Scott King preached on the need for the militancy and simplicity of the earliest Christians who were not caught up in the trappings of form and fashion of worship.
The Tuskegee Civic Association (TCA) is celebrating its 6th Anniversity for the Crusade for Citizenship. The message by Mr John Dor, assistant to the assistant Attorney General Civil Rights Division, the United States Department of Justice.
Rev. John Lewis, a founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; interview between his involvement with SNCC and his election for House of Representatives in 1981.
Dr. Charles Gomillion provided a sermon on George Washington Carver day of Dr. Carver's appealed utterances and how the message was aimed for the Tuskegee citizens.
Ambassador John J. Akar from Sierra Leone on "what is the relevance of Black institutions in a land which we like it or not can not chose to led the inevitability of its multiracism?"
Myrlie Evers, later Myrlie Evers-Williams, was a Civil Rights activist and journalist, who served as chairwoman of the NAACP and wrote several books on Civil Rights and her husband Medgar Evers, who was killed in 1963.
