Martin Luther King Jr

Dan Snow's History Hit

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🗓️ 28 August 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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On 28 August 1963 Martin Luther King Jr delivered his 'I have a dream' speech stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. to an audience of hundreds of thousands of people. The speech and King's life have been an inspiration to millions of people both in the United States and around the world in the fight for civil rights and equality. In this episode of the podcast, Dan is joined by Charles Woods, III, from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. They discuss Martin Luther King's life, struggles, successes and the enduring power of the words he delivered that day.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody welcome to Dan Snow's History. I'm just searching a woodland.
0:05.6	Searching a woodland for some archaeology. For a project you're about to get to watch on history hit TV.
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0:14.7	It is the anniversary today when this podcast is first broadcast of the March on Washington at which Martin Luther King Jr. made his famous I Have a Dream speech.
0:25.1	We thought we'd mark the anniversary with a podcast about Martin Luther King Jr. I haven't really done one specifically on him yet.
0:31.3	Very likely to have the historian Charles Woods III on the podcast.
0:35.9	He is a historian, he's a program outreach coordinator at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute in Alabama.
0:42.5	He is a place I've visited many times. It's one of my favorite museums in that part of the world.
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1:21.6	Okay, Charles, thanks for coming on the podcast. When Martin Luther King electrified the world with that speech on the mail,
1:28.3	how established was he within the civil rights movement at the time? Was he already a dominant figure?
1:34.3	Well, he was a known figure and I say that the Southern Christian leadership conference
1:38.6	have been founded a few years prior, but King really hadn't had a successful civil rights campaign
1:43.8	since the Montgomery bus boycott. That was in 1955 and 1956.
1:48.4	The SCLC, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was in Albany, Georgia for about a year
1:53.8	and didn't receive any successful civil rights gains. And so King was known in the civil rights community
2:01.4	because of the success of the Montgomery bus boycott which changed so many things with his
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