[Black Music and Civil Right Concert featuring Melba Moore, tape 1 of 4]

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Video footage from the Black Music and the Civil Rights Movement Concert of 1990 featuring R& B singer Melba Moore. The tape was recorded during the celebratory weekend held in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Sunday January 12th at the Meyerson Symphony Center. The footage shows a large choir dressed in white robes standing on risers with a speaker giving opening remarks.

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1 videocassette (Umatic) (9 min., 23 sec.) : sd., col. ; 3/4 in.

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King, Curtis & Moore, Melba January 1990.

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Video footage from the Black Music and the Civil Rights Movement Concert of 1990 featuring R& B singer Melba Moore. The tape was recorded during the celebratory weekend held in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Sunday January 12th at the Meyerson Symphony Center. The footage shows a large choir dressed in white robes standing on risers with a speaker giving opening remarks.

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1 videocassette (Umatic) (9 min., 23 sec.) : sd., col. ; 3/4 in.

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  • Preferred Citation: The Black Academy of Arts and Letters Records (AR0797), University of North Texas Special Collections

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Event photographs from the Black Academy of Arts and Letters, Incorporated (TBAAL), a Dallas-based nonprofit. Some items in this collection are restricted to use by the UNT community.

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  • January 1990

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  • June 4, 2022, 8:07 a.m.

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  • Sept. 23, 2022, 9:38 a.m.

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King, Curtis & Moore, Melba. [Black Music and Civil Right Concert featuring Melba Moore, tape 1 of 4], video, January 1990; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1939459/: accessed June 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.

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