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Listen Again: Making Amends

TED Radio Hour

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The Hotel, Where the King Stayed, Was the Largest Room in the in the Motel.

From his motel room, he helped organize siddins boy cots and marches that led to the civil rights act of 19 64. Right here, on the side of the building, near king's room, is where a bomb exploded an on mee.

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You know,
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it was so jet magazine said that it was one of the most luxurious black motel s in all america. It
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was also where martin luther king junior stayed when he was in birmingham. And from his motel room, he helped organize siddins boy cots and marches that
Speaker 1
led to the civil rights act of 19 64. Right here was room 30 here in the corner right there in the corner on the second floors where all doctor king was. It was doctor king. That was his room. It was the largest room in the in the hotel, and in a gy
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like a and
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i can't explain it, but there are shivers like, i just got goose bumps. There's something
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really, there's
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something really weird about thinking like, oh, right here, where my feet are walking. Doctor king was walking up these stairs to the second level on the corner where his room was. And he made a plan change, to
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change america, like rier, not the mand of the king.
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It happened right there. Thank you very kindly. My ver dead friend. And some of the protest marches literally started from right here, coming out of the, coming out of the hotel. Yes, long as we keep
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moving like we are movinge o structure, birmingham. Well, have to give in.
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Right here, on the side of the building, near king's room, is where a bomb exploded an on mee.

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