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Apr 9, 2018 · When the filmmakers behind HBO’s new documentary King in the Wilderness first began wading through television news stories of Martin Luther King, Jr. (GRS’55, Hon.’59) from his assassination to the present, they found that all of them defined him solely by his iconic 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech.
King in the Wilderness is an American documentary film about Martin Luther King Jr. that premiered on April 2, 2018 on HBO, focusing on the final two years of his life leading up to his assassination on April 4, 1968.
The personal toll of the civil rights movement: "King in the Wilderness" reveals the emotional and physical toll the civil rights movement took on Dr. King. It delves into his struggles with depression, his strained relationships with other civil rights leaders, and the constant threats to his life.
Mar 29, 2018 · When King did, saying “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today is my own government,” he was attacked on all sides. “He died,” Clayton pointedly comments, “of a broken heart.”
Apr 4, 2018 · Instead, it takes a deeper look into the life and death of MLK, who was assassinated April 4, 1968 — 50 years ago today. King gave his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963, a moment that ...
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Jan 14, 2022 · The iconic speech was one of the first times he publicly denounced the war after being reluctant to expand his civil rights work to include foreign policy.
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While the Black Power movement saw his nonviolence as weakness, and President Lyndon B. Johnson saw his anti-Vietnam War speeches as irresponsible, Dr. King’s unyielding belief in peaceful protest became a testing point for a nation on the brink of chaos.
