Dr Martin Luther King Jr

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🗓️ 16 January 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Dr Martin Luther King Jr was one of the figureheads of the civil rights movement in America. On 28th August 1963, he made one of the greatest English language speeches of all time, I Have A Dream. A quarter of million people, who had gathered in the National Mall after the Great March on Washington, in support of African American civil and economic rights, heard his dream of racial equality. Tragically gunned down at only 39 years old, the fight for equality that he began, continues today. On today's episode, Charles Woods III tells Dan Snow about Martin Luther King Jr.

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0:00.0	Once upon a time in medieval England, there was a young king who would do just about anything for his favorite night.
0:06.5	They were inseparable.
0:08.5	With love at the front of a king's mind, instead of war or ambition, you'd think the kingdom would be in for a golden
0:15.0	era of peace. But England is headed for the most catastrophic collapse seen for hundreds of
0:20.4	years. The saga continues, Join me Dan Jones on This is History, a Dynasty to
0:26.4	Die for. Available wherever you get your podcasts. It's a sweltering hot day in Washington, D.C. on the 28th of August 1963.
0:43.0	The Great March on Washington, advocating for African American civil and economic rights,
0:48.0	has culminated in the gathering of a quarter of a million people on the National Mall.
0:52.0	They have come to hear civil rights activists make a decision. quarter of a million people on the National Mall.
0:52.6	They have come to hear civil rights activists make speeches on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial,
0:57.7	among them a Baptist minister from Atlanta, Georgia.
1:01.1	Martin Luther King Jr. had risen to national prominence overseeing the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955, instigated after Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested for not giving a receipt on a segregated
1:14.8	bus to a white person.
1:17.1	King prepares to speak that he is standing on the steps of a monument to Abraham Lincoln, 100 years after the 16th President of the United States
1:26.0	signed the Emancipation Proclamation is not lost on the man.
1:30.0	King has a proclamation of his own that black people in America are still not free.
1:35.0	The crowd cheers and applauds as he tells them about his dream of racial equality.
1:40.0	King's I Have a Dream speech delivered by one of America's great orators, if not the greatest,
1:47.0	is the standout moment of the March on Washington.
1:50.0	To many there, a historic and life-changing experience.
1:53.2	King and the March on Washington are credited with propelling the US government
1:57.2	into action on civil rights, creating political momentum for the Civil Rights Act of
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