Martin Luther King, Jr. Audio & Video

He was a husband, a father, a preacher - and the preeminent leader of a movement that continues to transform?

"If we do not stop our war against the people of Vietnam immediately, the world will be left with no other alternative..."

The Black Media Archive is a multi-media collection of African and African-American history, including speeches, archival video, movies, music, and more. It exists as a central resource of Black history in multi-media formats.

His speeches stirred a generation to change - and outlined a practical way to economic freedom and true democracy. His words would help bring about the end of a brutally unequal system...

For the first time, an edition of Martin Luther King's most important speeches and selected sermons are assembled and available on CD as a value-priced edition.

At the time of this broadcast, Dr. Martin Luther King was co-pastor, with his father, of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, and president and one of the founders of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. This lecture has not been heard since 1967.

"In the early 1960s, King focused his challenge on legalized racial discrimination in the South where police dogs and bullwhips and cattle prods were used against Southern blacks seeking the right to vote or to eat at a public lunch counter."

In 1965, as a part of the Festival of Grace, celebrating the 1964 completion and consecration of Grace Cathedral, Bishop James Pike invited Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to visit and preach at Grace Cathedral.

This is a compilation of highlights of some of the most well-known speeches of modern times, spanning the years of 1940-1987.

This collection of 10 memorable speeches from the 20th century includes footage of some of American history's most prolific, controversial and celebrated icons.