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Martin Luther King: return to 1962 with a report shot in the USA

We go back in time with the archives of Sonuma and more particularly in 1962 in an archive of the magazine of the time which was entitled nine million.

While the pAsteur Baptist, non-violent activist, symbol of the fight against racial segregation On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King was assassinated. He had dedicated his life to advocating non-violence in his fight for political and economic equality.

60 years ago in 1962, in this interview with Martin Luther King that takes place in the southern United States. At the time, equality between blacks and whites still did not exist, except that blacks had just won a right: to sit next to whites in public transport (this may seem mind-blowing). In the interview Martin Luther King says that to achieve equality between blacks and whites we will achieve it in 40 years (in the 2000s) only a few years before the election of Barack Obama. All this to tell you the fight he was leading at the time. “You have to love your enemies ” he says in this report.

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