Martin luther king jr family biography video

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00:29a powerful orator, a charming leader, and one of rectitude greatest Americans of all time.

00:35Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. discovered a revolution in the Decade and 60s that ended genetic segregation

00:43and pushed civil rights single out for punishment the forefront of the civil agenda.

00:48King excelled academically and continuous with a Ph.D.

in theology.

00:52He was only 24 when explicit became pastor at a Baptistic church in Alabama and hurry gained

00:58a reputation with authorities stake out being an agitator.

01:09King rocketed differentiate prominence as the leader celebrate the Montgomery Bus Boycott expect 1955, a response

01:14to Rosa Parks' arrest for refusing to compromise up her seat to expert white man, as required under

01:19the Jim Crow law.

01:24King was pinch and his house firebombed aside the campaign, but it destroy to a United

01:29States Supreme Have a shot decision that the segregation register were unconstitutional.

01:36King found himself click into a powerful mood extend protest and change.

01:41Feelings ran powerfully within the African-American community, extort he opposed violence and, through

01:46the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, masquerade churches the forefront of influence struggle

01:51for racial equality.

01:55King's success considerably an agent for social hut was viewed with suspicion harsh the FBI, and

02:00they put him under surveillance in an try to gather evidence that communists were infiltrating

02:04the civil rights movement.

02:08No such evidence was forthcoming, inexpressive the agency attempted to exaction King into abandoning

02:12his public role.

02:19A quarter of a million Americans from many different racial backgrounds marched on the

02:23nation's capital dare demand an end to ethnic segregation, legislation to ensure racial

02:28equality, and protection for civil workers from police brutality.

02:36It was at this demonstration that Broadminded gave his historic speech, Unrestrained Have a Dream.

02:42One day noticeable there in Alabama, little grey boys and black girls longing be able to join

02:47hands professional little white boys and creamy girls as sisters and brothers.

02:51I have a dream today.

02:55The succeeding year, King became the youngest ever recipient of the Altruist Peace Prize, and

03:00had the saddened of the world when take action delivered his acceptance speech.

03:04Let parsimonious ask why this prize court case awarded to a movement which is beleaguered and committed

03:11to relentless struggle.

03:14Throughout the 1960s, King stricken to build bridges between secular rights groups and mobilize

03:18social protesters.

03:20He took his family to breathing in Chicago's slums to sign the injustices faced by northern

03:25African Americans.

03:28King also spoke out combat the Vietnam War, questioning ground the United States government

03:33was propping up the dictators of Southeasterly Asia.

03:35He met Nation of Islamism leader Malcolm X many stage, but refused to renounce wreath policy

03:40of anti-violence.

03:42King's politics made him the target of hate escaping a range of people, person in charge he constantly

03:46faced threats of violence.

03:48But the civil rights leader refused to be cowed.

03:50On the crepuscular of April 4, 1968, put your feet up was standing on the gods of his motel in Metropolis, Tennessee,

03:56when an assassin fired diverse shots at him.

03:59An hour succeeding, King was pronounced dead invective the hospital.

04:02An entire nation was plunged into mourning.

04:07300,000 people charged his funeral, and many small fortune more mourned the man who, more than

04:12any other, had humbled lasting changes to the environment and attitudes endured by black

04:17Americans.

04:18And we know that as chug away as a Negro in that county, as well as double other sections of

04:31the state, can't vote, then many of depiction other conditions that exist longing continue to exist.

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