Synopsis
Lucy explores Martin Luther King's influence on the civil rights act.
- Programme: American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley
- Series: 1
- Episode: The American Civil War
- Channel: BBC Four
- Broadcast year: 2019
- History | America, 1713-1975 | Protest, progress and radicalism, 1960-75 | The civil rights movement, 1965-75
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