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  Citizen King | Clip

  Dr. King Launches the Poor People's Campaign

  Martin Luther King, Jr. launched the Poor People's Campaign in 1968 to fight poverty.

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  Roads to Memphis | Digital Short

  King and Ray

  The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King forever bound the two men in history.

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  Soundtrack for a Revolution | Article

  Background

  This film tells the story of the American civil rights movement through its powerful music; freedom songs that propelled the movement evolved from slave chants, the labor movement, and the black church.

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  Comic

  One Small Step, Part 1: Transcript

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  Eyes on the Prize | Article

  Responses Coming from the Civil Rights Movement

  Learn about some of the important events that took place during the civil rights movement.

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  Roads to Memphis | Timeline

  King's Assassination: A Timeline

  The murder, the manhunt, and the decades-long investigation — a timeline of events related to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King.

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  Eyes on the Prize | Article

  People Of The Civil Rights Movement: Part 2

  Learn about key figures during the civil rights movement.

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  LBJ | Primary Source

  A Day of Mourning After the Death of Dr. King, 1968

  LBJ announces that Sunday, April 7, 1968 will be a national day of mourning.

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  Roads to Memphis | Clip

  Author Hampton Sides

  Hampton Sides discusses writing the book Hellhound on His Trail, a dramatic account of the search for James Earl Ray after he assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King. 

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  Citizen King | Article

  An Interview with Orlando Bagwell

  Acclaimed filmmaker Orlando Bagwell explores Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life and describes working on Citizen King.

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  Eyes on the Prize | Article

  People Of The Civil Rights Movement: Part 1

  Learn about key figures during the civil rights movement.

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  Film

  Freedom Riders (español)

  La poderosa, desgarradora e inspiradora historia de seis meses en 1961 que cambiaron para siempre a Estados Unidos.

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  Film

  The Busing Battleground (español)

  The Busing Battleground captura de manera visceral las tensiones de clase y la violencia racial que se produjo cuando los estudiantes negros y blancos de Boston fueron transportados en autobús por primera vez de un barrio a otro cumpliendo con la orden judicial de eliminar la segregación.

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  Eyes on the Prize | Article

  The Movement's Tactics

  Activist Stokely Carmichael explains some of the tactics used by SNCC organizers.

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  Film

  RFK

  When an assassin took his brother's life, Robert Kennedy was bereft of someone he loved, and of a role that had given his life meaning. As he began to move beyond the shadow of his brother, he, too, was assassinated.

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  Eyes on the Prize | Article

  Going Into Politics

  Maynard Jackson chose to enter politics in 1968, after the assassinations of national figures Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy.

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  Film

  Malcolm X: Make it Plain

  If any man expressed the anger, struggle and insistence of black people for freedom in the sixties, it was Malcolm X. In Omaha, he was Malcolm Little; later he became "Detroit Red," a small time street hustler. From prison emerged another Malcolm, the fiery, eloquent spokesman for the Nation of Islam. After a trip to Mecca, there was a last transformation — a new willingness to accept white allies. Who killed him and why has never been fully explained.

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  The Kennedys | Article

  The Kennedys and Civil Rights

  John Kennedy was elected president in 1960 partly because of his promise to secure equal rights for Black Americans.

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  Film

  Freedom Summer

  A historic effort in the summer of 1964 to shatter the foundations of white supremacy in what was one of the nation’s most viciously racist, segregated states.

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  Film

  George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire

  Four times governor of Alabama, four times a candidate for president, he was feared as a racist demagogue and admired as a politician who spoke his mind. A lightning rod for controversy, Wallace both reflected and provoked tensions in American society over more than four decades. This film traces the rise of the firebrand politician from his roots in rural Alabama to the assassination attempt that suddenly transformed him.