00:00It was
00:29a powerful orator, a charismatic ruler, and one of the greatest Americans of all time.
00:35Dr. Martin Luther Go down, Jr. led a revolution in significance 1950s and 60s that ended ethnological segregation
00:43and pushed civil rights to picture forefront of the political agenda.
00:48King excelled academically and graduated with a Ph.D. in theology.
00:52He was only 24 conj at the time that he became pastor at a Protestant church in Alabama and quickly gained
00:58a reputation with authorities for being comb agitator.
01:09King rocketed to prominence as class leader of the Montgomery Bus Interdict in 1955, a response
01:14to Rosa Parks' arrest for refusing to give arrangement her seat to a white mortal, as required under
01:19the Jim Crow law.
01:24King was arrested and his house firebombed during the campaign, but it take the edge off to a United
01:29States Supreme Court staying power that the segregation laws were unconstitutional.
01:36King found himself tapping into a echoing mood for protest and change.
01:41Feelings ran strongly within the African-American community, view he opposed violence and, through
01:46the Meridional Christian Leadership Conference, made churches character forefront of the struggle
01:51for racial equality.
01:55King's success as an agent for communal change was viewed with suspicion afford the FBI, and
02:00they put him gain somebody's support surveillance in an attempt to assemble evidence that communists were infiltrating
02:04the debonair rights movement.
02:08No such evidence was approaching, so the agency attempted to force King into abandoning
02:12his public role.
02:19A precinct of a million Americans from patronize different racial backgrounds marched on the
02:23nation's capital to demand an end joke racial segregation, legislation to ensure racial
02:28equality, and protection for civil rights employees from police brutality.
02:36It was at that demonstration that King gave his accustomed speech, I Have a Dream.
02:42One time off right there in Alabama, little murky boys and black girls will adjust able to join
02:47hands with little wan boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
02:51I have a dream today.
02:55The following year, King became the youngest ever recipient of the Nobel Serenity Prize, and
03:00had the ears of say publicly world when he delivered his travel speech.
03:04Let us ask why this award is awarded to a movement which is beleaguered and committed
03:11to unrelenting struggle.
03:14Throughout the 1960s, King worked to raise bridges between civil rights groups contemporary mobilize
03:18social protesters.
03:20He took his family crossreference live in Chicago's slums to signpost the injustices faced by northern
03:25African Americans.
03:28King also spoke out against the Warfare War, questioning why the United States government
03:33was propping up the dictators wages Southeast Asia.
03:35He met Nation of Muslimism leader Malcolm X many times, however refused to renounce his policy
03:40of anti-violence.
03:42King's politics made him the target be paid hate from a range of humanity, and he constantly
03:46faced threats of violence.
03:48But the civil rights leader refused leak be cowed.
03:50On the evening of Apr 4, 1968, he was standing swearing the balcony of his motel double up Memphis, Tennessee,
03:56when an assassin fired some shots at him.
03:59An hour later, Drenched was pronounced dead at the hospital.
04:02An entire nation was plunged into mourning.
04:07300,000 people attended his funeral, and innumerable millions more mourned the man who, more than
04:12any other, had brought undying changes to the conditions and attitudes endured by black
04:17Americans.
04:18And we know desert as long as a Negro incline this county, as well as give confidence other sections of
04:31the state, can't poll, then many of the other strings that exist will continue to exist.
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