Martin Luther King: The Dream and the Mountaintop | Africa Good Life

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." From a segregated Atlanta childhood to a balcony in Memphis, this is the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. A narrated, illustrated, chapter-by-chapter documentary biography — the Montgomery bus boycott, the SCLC, Birmingham, the March on Washington, Selma, the Nobel Peace Prize, and his final turn to economic justice and against the Vietnam War. Told in a neutral, scholarly voice. ❓ WHAT YOU'LL LEARN • How a 26-year-old pastor became the leader of the Montgomery bus boycott • Why Gandhi's nonviolence became the engine of the American civil rights movement • What King actually argued in the Letter from Birmingham Jail • How Birmingham, Washington, and Selma forced the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act • Why, in his final years, King turned to poverty and the war in Vietnam • The story of his last night — and the assassination at the Lorraine Motel ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 Martin Luther King, Jr. 1:34 Roots in Atlanta: "You Are Somebody" 5:20 Montgomery and the Bus Boycott 8:52 The SCLC and the Student Sit-Ins 12:28 Birmingham, 1963 16:01 The March on Washington 17:05 "I Have a Dream" 18:48 Selma and the Nobel Peace Prize 20:43 Bloody Sunday 22:25 Vietnam, Memphis, and the Poor People's Campaign 26:53 "I've Been to the Mountaintop" 27:43 April 4, 1968 📚 In this video: Martin Luther King, Jr. · Coretta Scott King · Rosa Parks · Ralph Abernathy · Malcolm X · Mahatma Gandhi · the SCLC · the Montgomery bus boycott · Birmingham · the March on Washington · Selma · the Nobel Peace Prize · the Voting Rights Act 🔔 Subscribe for more African and Black history, restored and retold. 💬 Where next — the life of Malcolm X, or Rosa Parks and the women of Montgomery? #MLK #MartinLutherKing #CivilRights #BlackHistory #IHaveADream