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• Come On Coot Do That Thing
  Coot Grant and "Kid" Wesley Wilson were a wife and husband duet group that were popular throughout the 1920s and 1930s performing blues and jazz music. The couple also performed in vaudeville, musical comedies, revues, and traveling shows.
• The Old Time Religion
  The Tuskegee Institute Singers grew out of the Tuskegee Institute Chapel Choir, first organized by Booker T. Washington. The Singers were reorganized in 1909 and toured performing spirituals, recording multiple sessions for Victor Records in 1915-1916 and 1926-1927.
• Heaven Song and Inchin' Along
  The Tuskegee Institute Singers grew out of the Tuskegee Institute Chapel Choir, first organized by Booker T. Washington. The Singers were reorganized in 1909 and toured performing spirituals, recording multiple sessions for Victor Records in 1915-1916 and 1926-1927.
• Have Your Chill, I'll Be Here When Your Fever Rises
  Coot Grant and "Kid" Wesley Wilson were a wife and husband duet group that were popular throughout the 1920s and 1930s performing blues and jazz music. The couple also performed in vaudeville, musical comedies, revues, and traveling shows.
• "New Year Imperative"; Sermon by Andrew L. Johnson
  Andrew L. Johnson speaks on inputing new ideas in the coming year.
• 62nd Annual Founders' Day
  62nd Annual Founders Day Service with guest speaker Walter Mondale, the Vice President of the United States under President Jimmy Carter.
• 1972 Fall Convocation
  Dr. Frederick Douglass Patterson spoke on students governing their lives as they leave school and pursue other avenues of life.
• Tuskegee Civic Association Meeting #2
  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.
• Tuskegee Civic Association (TCA) 5th Anniversary Celebration
  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.
• Tuskegee Civic Association Meeting #103
  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.
• Malcolm X in Harlem 1963
  Malcolm X delivers a speech for the United Black Front in Harlem.
• Muhammad Ali at Logan Hall, Tuskegee Institute
  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.
• Lecture series held by Sperry and Hutchinson (S&H): Whitney M. Young Speech
  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.
• Civil Rights speech from Barbara Jordan
  Barbara Jordan addressing Tuskegee students on how break the paralysis of injustice and establish peace anf tranquility for all men.
• "Research in Southern History: Prelude to Understanding”; Speech delivered by Dr. John Hope Franklin at Tuskegee University
  Dr. John Hope Franklin speaks on Southern history in relation to slavery and the Reconstruction Era.
• "Today's Need: A Creative Christianity"; Sermon by Coretta Scott King
  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.
• 6th Anniversary of the Tuskegee Civic Association
  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.
• Tuskegee Civic Association Meeting #3 (Part A&B)
  Reverend JF Norwood, a guest speaker, spoke on the Civil Rights issues article posted in the Birmingham News on September the 10th.
• Bernard Lafayette speaking on Civil Rights Movement
  Bernard Lafayette, a founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, promoting nonviolent action for social change across the globe.
• Sermon from Reverend Clarence P. Noble and performance from the Tuskegee University choir
  Reverend Clarence P. Noble preached on the reflection of life and the current turn of events for the African American prespective.
• "The Creator and George Washington Carver"; Sermon by Mrs. Hattie Kelly
  Mrs. Hattie Kelly spokes on George Washingto Carver and his many achievements in life.
• "Peace According to Jesus"; Sermon by John R. Lewis
  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.
• "Building with God"; Sermon by Andrew L. Johnson
  Andrew Lincoln Johnson sermoned about understanding love and the relationship the term holds with God.
• "The Message of Dr. George Washington Carver: Living, Learning, and Loving"; Sermon by Charles G. Gomillion
  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.
• Sermon from Dr. Benjamin E. Mays at Tuskegee University
  Dr. Benjamin E. Mays delievered a sermon on the black and white relations of socitey at Tuskegee University chapel.