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Listen: The Assorted Selections ProgramTallahassee Civil rights leader Reverend C.K. Steele delivering a speech in an auditorium - Tallahassee, Florida.
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Series/Collection number: N2008- 14, Photographic collection, 1969-1976 ; Box 1, no name 1
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African American men--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
Speeches, addresses, etc
Civil rights movements--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
African Americans--Civil rights
African American political activists
African American civil rights workers--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
African American religious leaders--Political activity
African American clergy--Political activity
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Physical Description
Biographical Note
Reverend Charles Kenzie Steele was born on February 17, 1914 in Bluefield, West Virginia. He moved to Tallahassee in 1952 and started preaching at the Bethel Missionary Baptist Church. Reverend Steele was one of the main organizers of the Tallahassee bus boycott that began in May 1956. He also helped Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. organize the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957. Reverend Steele died from bone marrow cancer in 1980 at the age of 66 in Tallahassee.
Buckley's photography focused primarily on civil rights demonstrations, anti-war rallies, anti-nuclear demonstrations, and women's rights demonstrations.
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