🎧 Dr Martin Luther King Jr
🎧 American History Hit • 34m
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.
Mixed by Thomas Ntinas, Dougal Patmore and Benjie Guy. Produced by Charlotte Long.
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