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Following the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. focused his attention on ending poll requirements in Southern states that prevented many African Americans from voting. At the march, King addressed a crowd of more than 50,000 people from the steps of the Alabama state capitol. Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 the following year.
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The day before he was assassinated, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a speech in support of striking sanitation workers in Memphis. During the speech he noted that while he faced continued death threats, he believed that the civil rights movement would live on without him.
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The assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. by James Earl Ray on April 4, 1968, ignited a series of riots and protests throughout the nation. That evening, Robert F. Kennedy delivered a speech from a street corner in Indianapolis urging peace and calmness. On April 5 President Lyndon B. Johnson broadcast a radio address that declared April 7 a national day of mourning and called for an emergency meeting of Congress to discuss strategies...
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During the Church Committee hearings in 1975, counsel members described evidence that indicated that J. Edgar Hoover had directed the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) to collect information that could discredit social reformers. Curtis Smothers, a committee investigator, testified that FBI agents attempted to sway public opinion against Martin Luther King Jr.
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This historical film packages nine short segments on Martin Luther King, Jr., for February's Black History Month. Stories include "King Holiday," "MLK/Wreath-laying," "Jackson/MLK," King/Civil Rights," "Reagan/Kids," "MLK Bust/Capitol," "Andy Young Reflects," "MLK Celebration/Atlanta," and "MLK Celebration/Washington, D.C.
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The Senate Church Committee, which met in 1975, investigated a series of abuses by members of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI). Testimony before the committee revealed that the FBI engaged in a prolonged attempt to discredit the work of Martin Luther King Jr. because it associated his work with communism. The agency, the committee discovered, engaged in such activities as warning prominent individuals...
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Paying lip service to Dr. King's message is one thing, creating a national holiday is quite another. This is the story of how Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, birthday became a national holiday-of the unrelenting drive of his widow, Coretta Scott King, to carry on his work; of politicians (especially Representative John Conyers, Jr.) determined to memorialize Dr. King and offer hope as the alternative to black rage at his assassination; of the ultimately...
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The civil rights movement discovers the power of mass demonstrations as the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. emerges as its most visible leader. Some demonstrations succeed; others fail. But the triumphant March on Washington, D.C., under King's leadership, shows a mounting national support for civil rights. President John F. Kennedy proposes the Civil Rights Act.
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Martin Luther King stakes out new ground for himself and the rapidly fragmenting civil rights movement. One year before his death, he publicly opposes the war in Vietnam. His Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) embarks on an ambitious Poor People's Campaign. In the midst of political organizing, King detours to support striking sanitation workers in Memphis, where he is assassinated. King's death and the failure of his final campaign mark...
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First there was the law, and then there was enforcement of the law. This program begins at Little Rock's Central High School, when soldiers had to provide safety for black children exercising their legal right to go to school. Martin Luther King, Jr., already appears in 1958 at a meeting of black leaders with President Eisenhower. The civil rights movement accelerated: marches, clashes with the police and the jailing of demonstrators, the murder of...
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This program contains speeches by two of the 20th century's greatest orators: John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. Included are Kennedy's inaugural address, the American University speech calling for an end to nuclear proliferation, and the politically-charged "Ich Bin ein Berliner" address delivered at the Berlin Wall. King's moving "I Have a Dream" speech to civil rights marchers in Washington and parts of his prophetic "When a Man Has Already...