king, martin luther

Looks at the rise of Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement leading up to the 1963 March on Washington where King delivered his famous "I have a dream" speech, presenting details about the march and those who took part.

April, 1967: a prison escape. James Earl Ray, nondescript thief and con man, drifts through the South, into Mexico, and then Los Angeles, where he is galvanized by George Wallace's racist presidential campaign. February, 1968: a Memphis garbage strike. Martin Luther King joins the sanitation workers' cause, but their march turns violent. King vows to return to Memphis in April. Historian Sides follows Ray and King as they crisscross the country, one stalking the other, until the drifter catches up with his prey. Against the backdrop of the resulting nationwide riots and King's funeral, Sides gives us a cross-cut narrative of the assassin's flight and the 65-day search that led investigators to Canada, Portugal, and England--a massive manhunt led by Hoover's FBI.

Coretta Scott King, widow of Martin Luther King, Jr., has spent most of her life working for civil rights. When her husband was assassinated she continued his legacy by founding the King Center.

Examines the life of the Baptist minister and civil rights leader who helped American blacks win many battles for equal rights.

Chronicles the civil rights struggle from the Kennedy assassination through the Civil Rights Act.

William Pepper, attorney and friend to Martin Luther King, describes his investigation into King's 1968 assassination and claims that King was the victim of a conspiracy involving the FBI, CIA, the military, organized crime, and the Memphis police, and discusses the 1999 wrongful death suit won by the King family.

Chronicles the civil rights struggle from the twilight of the Eisenhower years through the assassination of President Kennedy.