Meeting Martin Luther King, Jr.
Clip: Season 10 Episode 1002 | 1m 2sVideo has Closed Captions
A Center Street resident recalls family friend Martin Luther King, Jr.
A resident of Birmingham’s Center Street (aka Dynamite Hill) recalls family friend Martin Luther King, Jr. and how conversations in his backyard sparked nationwide activism.
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Meeting Martin Luther King, Jr.
Clip: Season 10 Episode 1002 | 1m 2sVideo has Closed Captions
A resident of Birmingham’s Center Street (aka Dynamite Hill) recalls family friend Martin Luther King, Jr. and how conversations in his backyard sparked nationwide activism.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- Well, when I first met Martin, we were playing Cub Scout football here in the backyard, I was about seven years of age, but when the game was over, my mother introduced us to Ralph Abernathy, and to Fred Shuttlesworth, and to Andy Young, and, of course, to Martin.
Martin asked me to call him Uncle Mike.
This was a place of privacy for him.
It was a place where he could rest, where he could walk around without his shoes on.
[gentle music] And as time passed and the news reels began to play, and I could see the effect of the conversations held here, starting to reach the nation and then on to the world, it was almost awe-inspiring, to tell you the truth, I did not realize that these men were changing the world.
[gentle music]
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Birmingham's Center Street was nicknamed Dynamite Hill because it was bombed over 50 times. (1m 4s)
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