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359: Martin Luther King's Dream
The Rest Is History
The Great Drama of Martin Luther King's Speech
Martin Luther King is a reverend. And I think it's really important to understanding the tone, the timbre, the resonance of the speech to recognize that King is a preacher. We'll give a bit of context on this. It's sometimes thought the civil rights movement just comes out of nowhere. That's not right. There had always been civil rights campaigners from the 1890s onwards. They were pushing back against Southern governments and lynchings. The structure of oppression changed after World War II but was still there into the 20th century in many states.
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