This historical film packages nine short segments on Martin Luther King, Jr., for February’s Black History Month. Stories include “King Holiday,” “MLK/Wreath-laying,” “Jackson/MLK,” King/Civil Rights,” “Reagan/Kids,” “MLK Bust/Capitol,” “Andy Young Reflects,” “MLK Celebration/Atlanta,” and “MLK Celebration/Washington, D.C.” From the National Archives and Records Administration.
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First, there was the law, and then there was an enforcement of the law. This program began at Little Rock’s Central High School when soldiers had to provide safety for black children exercising their legal right to go to school. Martin Luther King, Jr., already appears in 1958 at a meeting of black leaders with President Eisenhower. The civil rights movement accelerated: marches, clashes with the police and the jailing of demonstrators, the murder of Medgar Evers, the bombing of the Baptist church in Birmingham, sit-ins and protests, the Montgomery march, the Mississippi Freedom march, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s famous "I Have a Dream" and "I Have Been to the Mountaintop" speeches, his funeral, and President Johnson’s signing of the Civil Rights Bill of 1968. (27 minutes)
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Can Blacks fly airplanes and fight? The answer to this odious question would come from the creation of the only all-Black air force ever established by the U.S. military. This program from Tony Brown's Journal reviews this dark period in racial relations and the Black community's response to a segregated "separate but equal" policy of the Army Air Corps.
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As a punishment for breaking school rules, Marshall memorized the U.S. Constitution. After enrolling at Lincoln University, the future Supreme Court Justice gambled at cards to subsidize his income and married Vivien "Buster" Burley. Marshall began his affiliation NAACP in 1934.
