A Dream Remembered?: Martin Luther King Jr and the Grassroots Civil Rights Movement
Making Contact
English - January 13, 2016 14:00 - 29 minutes - 26.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 53 ratingsPolitics News Society & Culture Documentary news makingcontact politics publicmedia racialjustice socialjustice Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28th 1963, Martin Luther King Jr delivered one of the most famous speeches of all time.
But it nearly didn’t happen.
On this special edition of Making Contact for MLK Day, Gary Younge, author of “The Speech” talks about Martin Luther King Junior’s “Dream” and the story behind it.