Martin Luther King, the FBI, and the Fight for Civil Rights (1963–64)

🎧 After the “I Have a Dream” speech, Martin Luther King Jr. faced escalating pressure, government surveillance, and national crisis, but the movement kept pushing forward. This episode tells the story of what happened next, including Birmingham, the fight for voting rights, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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📝 Vocabulary list:

1) activism: actions taken to create social or political change

2) civil rights: basic rights that protect people from unfair treatment by the government

3) surveillance: the act of watching someone closely, often in secret

4) spy on: to secretly watch or gather information about someone

5) legislation: laws that are created or changed by a government

6) discrimination: unfair treatment of people based on race, gender, or other characteristics

7) eulogy: a speech given to honor someone who has died

8) assassination: the killing of an important political or public figure

9) voter registration: the process of signing up to be allowed to vote

10) intimidation: threats or actions meant to scare people into not acting

11) discredit: to damage someone’s reputation so people stop trusting them

12) anonymous: without a name or identity attached