<Ul> <Li> Black Forum Records.: A spoken - word subsidiary that focused mainly on albums featuring progressive political and pro-civil rights speeches / poetry . Black Forum issued recordings by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Stokely Carmichael, Elaine Brown, Langston Hughes, Margaret Danner, and others from 1970 until 1973 . </Li> <Li> Natural Resources: This label was active from 1972 to 1973 and in 1976 as a minor subsidiary for white artists and instrumental bands . It served as a label for Motown, Tamla and Gordy reissues and Motown compilation albums in 1978 and 1979 . </Li> </Ul> <Li> Black Forum Records.: A spoken - word subsidiary that focused mainly on albums featuring progressive political and pro-civil rights speeches / poetry . Black Forum issued recordings by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Stokely Carmichael, Elaine Brown, Langston Hughes, Margaret Danner, and others from 1970 until 1973 . </Li> <Li> Natural Resources: This label was active from 1972 to 1973 and in 1976 as a minor subsidiary for white artists and instrumental bands . It served as a label for Motown, Tamla and Gordy reissues and Motown compilation albums in 1978 and 1979 . </Li> <Ul> <Li> Motown Latino Records.: Short - lived (1982) subsidiary for Spanish - language Latin American music . Its only artist was Jose Feliciano . </Li> </Ul>

Both stax records and motown were credited for their role in racial integration