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Our Friend, Martin is a 1999 American direct-to-video animated children's educational film about Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement.Produced by DIC Entertainment, L.P. and Intellectual Properties Worldwide and distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment under the CBS/Fox Video label, it was released three days before Martin Luther King Jr.'s 70th birthday and was the ...
"I've Been to the Mountaintop" is the popular name of the final speech delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. [1] [2] [3] King spoke on April 3, 1968, [4] at the Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters) in Memphis, Tennessee. The speech primarily concerns the Memphis sanitation strike. King calls for unity, economic actions, boycotts ...
Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.
Martin Luther King III holds his daughter, Yolanda Renee King, during a wreath laying ceremony at the Martin Luther King Jr. National Monument on Sunday, January 20, 2013, in Washington, D.C.
Despite being a revered leader of the civil rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was actually conflict avoidant, says biographer Jonathan Eig. In an interview published by NPR’s Book of ...
Martin Luther King III was joined by President Joe Biden and Reverend Al Sharpton, honoring those they say helped continue the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and petitioning the nation to ...
The Witness: From the Balcony of Room 306 is a 2008 documentary short film created to honor the 40th annual remembrance of the life and death of Martin Luther King Jr. Directed by Adam Pertofsky, the film received a 2008 Oscar nomination in the "Best Documentary Short Subject" Category at the 81st Academy Awards.
King in the Wilderness is an American documentary film about Martin Luther King Jr. that premiered on April 2, 2018, on HBO, focusing on the final two years of his life leading up to his assassination on April 4, 1968.