December 23, 2024

Arnie Alpert, co-host of American Friends’ Service Committee’s State House Watch radio show, prepared a special holiday edition featuring an extended excerpt of Martin Luther King, Jr’s ‘Give Us the Ballot’ speech from 1957,  and of Arnie himself recollecting the 20 year struggle to establish a Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in New Hampshire. Arnie plays music by Phil Ochs, Nina Simone, The Neville Brothers, and Mavis Staples.