Synopsis
Martin Luther King reflects on the lawful change he has witnessed with regard to integration.
- Programme: Face to Face
- Episode: Martin Luther King
- Channel: BBC
- Broadcast year: 1961
- History | America, 1713-1975 | Protest, progress and radicalism, 1960-75 | The civil rights movement, 1965-75
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