#379: Alveda King on Her Uncle MLK's Forgotten Legacy

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🗓️ 19 January 2019

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On today’s show, we feature an interview with Alveda King, niece of Martin Luther King Jr. She talks about her uncle’s enduring legacy, what people forget about MLK, and her plans for honoring him.Also on today’s show:• A clip from President Ronald Reagan's January 15, 1987, address the nation from the Oval Office on Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday.• We share some of your letters to the editor. Next week your letter could be featured on our show; write us at letters@dailysignal.com or call 202-608-6205.• The heroic story of an Ohio firefighter who was called to a house fire and battling it when he saw the American flag flying from the front porch with flames behind it.The Daily Signal podcast is available on the Ricochet Audio Network. You also can listen on iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app. All of our podcasts can be found at DailySignal.com/podcasts.If you like what you hear, please leave a review or give us feedback. Enjoy the show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Monday, January 21st.
0:09.2	I'm Rob Lewy, Editor-in-Chief.
0:11.1	And I'm Rachel Del Judas, congressional reporter.
0:13.6	Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and in honor of his legacy will feature an interview
0:17.7	with his niece, Elveda King, and a clip from President Ronald Reagan's remembrance in 1987.
0:23.8	We also have your letters to the editor and we share a story about an Ohio firefighter and
0:29.1	how he saved the American flag from a burning home. the podcast today by Elveda King, the niece of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
0:45.0	Dr. King, welcome. It's an honor to speak to you again.
0:48.0	Well, it's always wonderful to speak with the Heritage Team and to everyone who's going to see or listen to their hello everyone.
0:56.4	Wonderful. Well as we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr day today I want to ask
1:02.2	how your uncle has shaped our culture in America
1:06.0	on issues like civil rights and your own life.
1:09.0	Martin Luther King Jr. was born 90 years ago in Atlanta, Georgia as what was known as a
1:16.8	Negro little boy. And of course he grew up in a time when the South especially was segregated and all of that. However, he was raised by parents, one whose grandparents were slaves and one whose grandparents were from Cork, Ireland.
1:33.0	And so in that marriage,
1:35.0	they saw every human being
1:37.0	as a person of worth and dignity.
1:40.0	They raised all three of their children that way. One with my dad, Reverend A.D. King, my Aunt Christine King Fis, and Uncle
1:47.8	M. L. Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. So that was his worldview from birth and he left as a legacy that same worldview.
1:57.0	Are there ways today that you think society, media, or even others have misrepresented your uncle's conviction on the civil
2:05.2	rights issues? Well what has happened with my uncle's legacy from a media
2:11.4	perspective or what I call a certain world view that I mean no harm when I say that.
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