War and Peace in the Nuclear Age; Interview with Brent Scowcroft, 1987

The earth. The earth was was in life. He was a man of diminutive stature but in death. Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as a giant. The nation's most celebrated martyred in the struggle for civil rights. On the whole the years since Dr. King's assassination have been kind to his memory a memory replete with the taunts of white racists who despised him. Frank can be a menace to black power advocates mocked him. Wright was right. You're right and thank goodness and black student leaders second guessed his every move. Here today I don't worry about what

you read up on them or what the flap people I'm I'm I'm not I'm not going to you know I am. Due in part to the abrupt manner in which he died and to his high profile charismatic leadership Dr. King is used by many as the embodiment of the civil rights era in some ways overshadowing the movement that thrust him into national prominence as Americans. Her dad would have the right to work for the right. Martin Luther King Jr. would be the first to say to us all that he was a very small part of the civil rights movement and the holiday should be a recognition certainly of Dr. King's contribution but even more importantly it should be a testimony to what the country accomplished producer Henry Hampton wants to set the record straight on the civil rights movement. America's second revolution as he calls it a revolution often recounted through the trials

and triumphs of Martin Luther King Jr. and a rarely seen through the experiences of the lesser known foot soldiers who also risked all on the battlefield of social justice. I know the way you did was it was not the way it is the truth. The current was this period is a living example of the power that ordinary people have to change their environment and they surely dead it was fought in the streets in churches in courts in schools or as. It was fought to make America be America for its citizens. These were the Civil Rights Years produced by Hamptons Boston based company Black side incorporated eyes on the prize recalls of the first decade of the civil rights movement from the mid 50s through the Voting Rights Act of 1965. It airs on PBS in six parts

starting Wednesday into the side of the building. Thousands of people and we were entering the site and I could just get a glimpse of this group. Another car I could hear on the car radio. I could hear that there was a lot for the first hand accounts and volumes of historical footage much of which hasn't been seen before by the American public. The project provides new insights into the movement and into the role played by Martin Luther King. This series all admit he does I think is creates a proper perspective. It says that Martin King was probably 5 7 percent of the civil rights movement. He was surely a shining icon but he was not. The civil rights movement in total that was going to be thinking about her take steps and sellers who persisted at forcing Jim Clark a sheriff to live up to his true letter which wasn't violent and one and all for one. And this staggering when you look at the history books and get a sense that this period was but basically males because

nothing could be further than the truth. Diane Nash up 19 year old college freshman at Fisk organized half the people in Nashville to the point of desegregating and beating companies like Orson Christie's in their own game and finally getting the mayor to stop him and change his path in midstream. So. I asked the mayor. Do you feel. That the person could not agree that it was. Right for someone to do the march and then refuse them. Sir. It is still true king that most Americans remember what Hempton calls the remarkable human drama that was the civil rights movement a period of shared hopes and expectations and of dreamers and dreamers not just one but many

of the 10 o'clock news. Marcus Jones. The book.