Free at Last
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were director of the southern christian leadership conference that in the church in washington dc and really where are the president of the sclc the reverend dr martin luther king jr was there a column about a poor people's campaign which he proposed the lead in april but by day two of the black man who was believed from the player of the voter apathy of that sure you do congress and the way ended with a negative women who on the white mama will mm
hmm you're doing now we are and there's a campaign we're going to get out or incentives that the nation's land the huge promissory note we also discover that we had received a bed of how we going to get
that snap two weeks earlier on january fifteenth the poor people's campaign got underway in the basement of the sunday school building and the lebanese are baptist church in atlanta georgia and pastors then where dr king jr and his father i'm with you at the time was beginning to bring on him he'll organizes from a nine northern state would recruit them are with the sclc to talk about ordination financing recruiting and most of all nonviolent thank you
today well i want to ask the urban league i
always think of western media but i got it and the railroad i can see right here mm hmm mm hmm he says the nonviolent march will be non violently you have the last massive
nonviolence workout with updike week alone won't sell their own determination you're well and we may in from all the move this missionary dr king had to constantly be animals around it and that we would find many times in three months that you would begin a meeting or i'm in the middle of one then turn over there torpedo when the right one
we knew i mean right now oh yeah congratulations ian
oh yeah yeah baby the meeting hey no
way they were genuine <unk> move thirty nine are we not making the dalai lama coming up when we got to the campaign mccain no wait on you oughta read that meant that down you know what about the argument that now that we got caught in a car when
you know you write about the fact that many of the new media they captured but they are prepared to get down at the piano at that law the peak to peak although paul williams was really inheriting voter registration group sealed the deal or for people in my brain
typically you know you know i'm all right i would give them away and happy because it will be it will be very vocal and then they will go on
you ok question about a lot of back in the one thing that money to the he was not yet people are well you know i think that it is
why is that what is wrong with her and the question what we will come back in again how we knew about any guarantees that that we reached a point where we all aware that you're going to fall oh no the negro community i'm going to fight in it with him and because of income level that they get to do that on a map and i don't want to get right than
they would have been no not i wish it were really one thing they're not ok to the bank of people you're going to buy and it would have done and i think that you know wind and then they would say now did you know we think that we want to believe what they're being the bigger man and then you know combine them i'm in trouble dealing not with one more militant movement specific would do these were some of the unresolved question that meeting individually movement within this bill
is big atlanta airport six am martin luther king's going to mississippi and alabama to talk to people about the campaign but also as internet go with the deal anyway
things a last minute orders for the charter plane company in atlanta that was canceled that was the reason the second company took a trip that threat of violence was always their fear of a bomb in the wind paul vallely they can go on
that's right you're right the
pain ek many many things and at
any point yeah
yeah nice you do oh yeah
get it do you know thank you you know oh yeah
at the peak and the plane along last leg of the trip back to atlanta because a way i'm thinking as that time was something familiar memories of jail food they remember in the banks he's been in jail forty two times in twenty four
do you remember honey pastor study at the ebenezer church in atlanta at lunch
at a planning meeting for the campaign discuss how to present the man in white oh yeah you
know so a camp and will be a lot of it can be a one man who lobby in one day o'connor they are going to vary from capitol hill to the department of government are augmented commerce day in and day out and you we have grown climate group of a report that money on the car with their burial congressional committees are calling us just what we really
won't you that when you look at that the us would not only be beaten with a lot of those people and we get television radio and they think of the idea that this political we don't do that before and maybe before we go again on that day
in the middle of the night and then and we i'll only do me this candidate on election and less we're going out on my end up in grenada mississippi leon hall has found another way to recruit for king's march using already existing organization in this case his own successful two year boycott of white owned stores are told
that when they fail to agree on that so that we're all going through all that we got that but the main business analyst and early march six weeks ago the target in washington was recruiting leon would drive one of the mild they really knew that here was the right man to be working thank
you leon county mississippi well lit over the weekend at npr dot org you really don't want to revive that that would have you read the mail about
developmental think that the government put there now thank you and when now on the line we need it now so for them to a meeting room of the freedom democratic party in
hattiesburg an activist group formed by michael leon oh leon will work with these people recruiting a victim really on the r michaelson in their leader made leon well with a bottle of it the day oh yeah thank you all right oh you michel
daily update eleven in that way the mail it is with no money with me or are our adult lives have a marvelous development and the sense that we assemble here together today you were common problems bringing together at a group
that may have not been the government in this type of meeting in the past that no i haven't been in a meeting like this and it's been one of my dreams that we would come together and realize our common problem and i do want to do this meeting or other outward grew quite been postponed an inmate stabbed worried about weak or no support the number nearly one hundred organizer representing made the surprise them and the death of their commitment was obvious and how poor people were in having the ability to governments the nets and tear them an apology
maybe one day maybe and a smile that we won't get together and be together again powerful org but people imagine that the americans american indians only the appalachian whites or working together all the problem of poverty and the only thing that had to leave nevada california already begun in any pain now good day and there are two words that we play within ourselves the movie among the war that is whether this should be completely forgotten
because we are human being we got you in that the top of i don't know whatever it might be and we are human beings and now the raven that we have the organ at big events like the guy that is that the thing that all the white men down all the black men they'll all of them now and until we realize now that this there they want it would require new ad not been doing that and the other part of the year and until we're at is that we will never get anywhere and we all have that thought and they're united by navy pilot that where we are right now yes we are where they put together the right career
color they've got to live in a paper airplane that's one thing to have the arrogant powers that period when or why black of what every get together that so anybody that one word we want that power and that we'd get around and you have our own oracle arena in atlanta yeah yeah the problem one more week we're going to
be getting to the right and they are the phone that they can't get right now right now oh i know on later that night the steering committee for the campaign go to a member of the other minorities this meeting like that earlier one in atlanta and it can be lorraine motel in memphis tennessee planning for the campaign in washington was continuing to move to memphis because dr king to come here to speak this night to a rally of ten thousand person gather support for the sanitation workers' strike while they waited for a logistics in washington revived think of the success of the other minorities meetings they need more than one ms bielby executive director
of the nfl we're pulling and that make me how do you to the housing bubble and then the people get there they lead the people thank you and that night he returned to worry about with their disgust with him whether or not to march in support of the sanitation workers' strike this week
these it's been mm hmm now the next morning you're driving
south into the mississippi delta country a land of often extreme poverty solid base of support working on and marks mississippi and cortland county the country poor church here has been killed four hours in his calm to listen and speak to mothers on welfare many men cannot get into the church that they wait outside anyway there's no reason not to bail out of work you know even now and i
recommend that they don't they may indicate now that they got caught up a database and that meant looking in lebanon what about you know you need to wear a thick got that right now you know i think at heart into the nomination la la la oh yeah
without adequate mm hmm mm hmm oh no mm hmm
it's both they've built mississippi in always running behind schedule is now more than two hours late but no one leads niko the
kid the peak we are worrying
here we are oh yeah ah man not been able to be a man the whole day there were not the pie thank
you he can on the way
to pay the poor people's campaign is well underway the stripper king is the first international horrible horrible but it's also agreed now have march in memphis trying to get into the already overbuilt he will go back and this whole record was to continue but it doesn't moby dick remember you at that moment
mm hmm oh really i'm david greene mm hmm was it
mm hmm norway but it will not be a right the pushback has been
- Series
- Public Broadcast Laboratory
- Series
- Realities
- Episode Number
- 12
- Episode
- Free at Last
- Producing Organization
- Public Broadcasting Laboratory
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- cpb-aacip/516-sj19k46z5q
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- Description
- Episode Description
- 1 hour piece, produced by Public Broadcasting Laboratory. It originally aired on Public Broadcasting Laboratory on April 7, 1968 and was re-aired as episode #12 of Realities in 1971. It was originally shot in color.
- Episode Description
- NET pays tribute to the late Dr. Martin Luther King in a program which chronicles the preparations for his last campaign before his tragic death - the Poor People's March in April 1968 on what would have been Dr. King's fiftieth birthday on January 15th. This film is a chronicle of the preparations of the late Dr. Martin Luther King and his colleagues in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference for the Poor People's March in April 1968. The Poor People's Campaign gets underway in the basement of the Sunday school building of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, GA, whose pastors were Dr. King and his father. Field organizers form the nine northern cities and six southern states that would recruit the marchers are seen meeting with the SCLC staff to talk about organization, financing, recruiting, and most of all, non-violence. PBL cameramen entered the "non-violent workshops" set up by Dr. King and recorded some of the comments and speeches. Those seen speaking at the meeting include: Dr. King; Rev. James Bevel, director of the workshops; the Rev. Jesse Jackson; the Rev. Albert Sampson, organizer of a voter registration project in Cleveland; Hosea Williams, field director of the campaign; and the Rev. Andy Young, executive vice-president of SCLC. The film follows Dr. King and his organizers as they tour the country to rally support for the march. In Grenada, MI, Leon Hall, one of the principal organizers, uses an organization he started two years before to boycott white-owned stores as his focal point for rallying support for the campaign. Another of Hall's techniques is enlisting specific grievances in each community he visits. He is seen in Quitman County, MI, then at a meeting of the Freedom Democratic Party in Hattiesburg, an activist group formed by Stokely Carmichael. Toward the conclusion of the program, Dr. King is seen addressing people crowded into churches in two small Mississippi towns, Marks and Batesville, as he winds up his national tour. "Free at Last" is a presentation of NET Division, Educational Broadcasting Corporation, produce by Public Broadcast Laboratory. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Series Description
- Realities consists of 40 episodes produced in 1970 by various producers.
- Broadcast Date
- 1971-05-27
- Broadcast Date
- 1969-04-03
- Broadcast Date
- 1968-04-07
- Asset type
- Episode
- Genres
- Event Coverage
- Documentary
- Topics
- Social Issues
- Race and Ethnicity
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Duration
- 00:58:57
- Credits
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Executive Producer: McCarthy, Harry
Guest: Hall, Leon
Producer: Shukar, Greg
Producing Organization: Public Broadcasting Laboratory
Reporter: Shukar, Greg
Speaker: King, Martin Luther, Jr.
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Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive
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Format: 16mm film
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Free at Last,” 1971-05-27, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed September 7, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-sj19k46z5q.
- MLA: “Free at Last.” 1971-05-27. American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. September 7, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-sj19k46z5q>.
- APA: Free at Last. Boston, MA: American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-sj19k46z5q