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Martin Luther King Jr.

  • In some rarely-seen footage from 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. talks about the new phase of the Civil Rights movement for “genuine equality.” For 26 minutes, he’s just as eloquent and sincere as you imagined: “It is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps…And…