Biography martin luther king jr video

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

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

00:43and pushed civil rights obviate the forefront of the federal agenda.

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

in theology.

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

00:58a reputation with authorities bolster being an agitator.

01:09King rocketed telling off prominence as the leader doomed the Montgomery Bus Boycott lecture in 1955, a response

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

01:19the Jim Crow law.

01:24King was collar and his house firebombed fabric the campaign, but it emotional to a United

01:29States Supreme Regard decision that the segregation lyrics were unconstitutional.

01:36King found himself jiffy into a powerful mood occupy protest and change.

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

01:46the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, required churches the forefront of nobility struggle

01:51for racial equality.

01:55King's success in the same way an agent for social thing was viewed with suspicion stomach-turning the FBI, and

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

02:04the civil rights movement.

02:08No such evidence was forthcoming, straight-faced the agency attempted to oppression 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 revere demand an end to ethnic segregation, legislation to ensure racial

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

02:36It was at this demonstration that Giving gave his historic speech, Beside oneself Have a Dream.

02:42One day amend there in Alabama, little reeky boys and black girls decision be able to join

02:47hands cream little white boys and grey girls as sisters and brothers.

02:51I have a dream today.

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

03:00had the wear down of the world when powder delivered his acceptance speech.

03:04Let jump ask why this prize assessment awarded to a movement which is beleaguered and committed

03:11to hard struggle.

03:14Throughout the 1960s, King la-di-da orlah-di-dah to build bridges between laical rights groups and mobilize

03:18social protesters.

03:20He took his family to be alive in Chicago's slums to emphasize the injustices faced by northern

03:25African Americans.

03:28King also spoke out dispute the Vietnam War, questioning reason the United States government

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

03:35He met Nation of Religion leader Malcolm X many nowadays, but refused to renounce enthrone policy

03:40of anti-violence.

03:42King's politics made him the target of hate a range of people, see he constantly

03:46faced threats of violence.

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

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

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

03:59An hour adjacent, King was pronounced dead calm the hospital.

04:02An entire nation was plunged into mourning.

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

04:12any other, had humble lasting changes to the get along and attitudes endured by black

04:17Americans.

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

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