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13177_35345_civil_rights_mvmt_mlk6

1950s, 1960s
B&W

Vietnam War footage. Shots of explosions, tanks, american soldiers in the jungle, wounded and dead bodies being carried. Martin Luther King Jr gives speech about poverty “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” A black woman being harassed and restrained by police. Demonstrators marching. Shot of poor black families and children. Montage of people of other races as MLK speaks of these groups banding together (Mexican Americans, Native Americans, Puerto Ricans, Appalachian whites)