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Scope and Contents note Reel-to-reel tape recording and cassette copy. Transcript of Lewis' speech is included. Lewis relates his early years growing up in Troy, Alabama; his feelings about the Montgomery bus boycott; attending college at American Baptist Seminary; his experience at Highlander; working in the civil rights struggle with Reverends C.P. Vivian, James Lawson, Kelly Miller Smith and Martin Luther King Sr. and Jr., the NAACP, Congress for Racial Equality (CORE); attending workshops for non-violence; his...