Joan Baez Interview: Singing for & Marching with Martin Luther King Jr.

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Joan Baez speaks about her friendship with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., on first hearing him speak at her school when she was 16, him visiting her in jail and how she was in complete denial when he was assassinated. Baez credits Dr. King on helping her move from being a student of non violence to a practitioner.
Joan Baez is a singer, songwriter and activist born in Staten Island, New York. Of Mexican and Scottish descent, she experienced racism and discrimination as a child that may have inspired her life-long commitment to social justice, civil rights, and non-violence. In the 1960s, she released her first hit album, featuring topical songs related to human and civil rights. She famously performed the civil rights anthem, “We Shall Overcome” at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, where Dr. King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. Throughout her career she demonstrated a commitment to social and political causes, such as Amnesty International and Live Aid. Baez has released more than 30 albums, and received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007 and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2017.
From the HBO / Kunhardt Film Foundation (KFF) Documentary “King in the Wilderness” that follows Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the last years of his life: from the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 to his assassination in 1968, through personal stories of the people who were around him.
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Joan Baez, Musician and Activist
Interviewed By: Trey Ellis
Interview Date: July 27, 2017
Chapters:
00:00 Meeting Dr. King
02:35 Grenada
09:02 Penn Center
10:41 Dr. King’s Personality
13:08 Vietnam
18:31 Poor People’s Campaign
20:36 Pressure on Dr. King
23:38 Dr. King’s Assasination
24:26 Dr. King’s Later Struggles
26:41 Friendship with Dr. King
28:50 Andy Young
29:36 Music’s Role in The Movement
31:01 Dr. King’s Charisma
32:45 Commitment to Nonviolence
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@leslierodricks2701 3 жыл бұрын

Long Live Joan Baez! May she continue be with us for many more years to come! We are fortunate that she keeps in good health!

@MrFolky77 5 жыл бұрын

She is so INTELLIGENT it makes me want to cry!.... That was a GREAT and original interview! I just regret that in more than a HALF-HOUR about Dr. King and Joan Baez as the subject, pretty much, he didn't even ask her about or mention the March on Washington, where she actually sang at his side, in front of a sea of people!... Really strange...

@kholleysf 5 жыл бұрын

I can't imagine the world without Joan Baez.

@subversivelysurreal3645 3 жыл бұрын

kholleysf ~that sigh is very telling...who wouldn’t want to hear Joan Baez talk about what Joan Baez wants to talk about …? call it ‘Baez wants to Say’...?

@donnareidt3473 3 жыл бұрын

Joan Baez always takes your breathe away with her voice of truths compassion love of her mission in life.

@l.campos8333 5 жыл бұрын

" ...musician and activist ...". and composer, and poet, and painter, and ultimate muse to millions of devoted friends and commited followers on the whole world for more than half a century. And a soul of rare beauty, with the power of touching and making surface whatever of goodness, of beauty , of compassionate love on us. Love and Gratitude forever, bodhisattva Joan Baez.

@l.campos8333 5 жыл бұрын

This spiritual force of Nature , for a while named Joan Baez, always remindes me that I have no right to give up , each and Every day , to turning into a better being on Earth, our motherland , on intencion and on action.

@sharonvyse3686 3 жыл бұрын

Ms Baez came into this 🌎 with 'windows wide open' and hardwired to do good in this world by first doing no harm to another. Do unto others as you wish to have done unto you...for 80 years she has walked this talk. That is inspiring. Thank you for such a genuine and respectful conversation!

@nsitz6228 4 жыл бұрын

This interviewer doesn't get her or what she's saying at all. She's unbelievably gracious despite that.

@parisbreakfast 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely insensitive. He’s like an automaton.no response to what she is saying. Just the next question, next question.

@suzannelawson9215 3 жыл бұрын

It's possible that the interviewer was new in this position. Eveyone is new at their job in the beginning, no matter what the job is and not yet 100 % confident. Even Barbara Walters was new, not always the best at interviewing in the beginning or even later interviews, in some instances.

@tudormiller887 Жыл бұрын

I'm a new fan of her music. Watching from London UK.

@robertzimmerman1140 4 жыл бұрын

I wish I could understand English to know what he is saying, although I can understand something of what he is talking about, in any case it does not take much to realize that he is very intelligent and a beautiful woman, I love you Joan ♥♥ PS: thanks google translator :D

@pigdog126 2 жыл бұрын

Joan is a splendid speaker, has a great personality and sense of humor. It felt awkward to me for the interviewer to be so bland.

@user-ok9ft1iv4x 2 ай бұрын

We no another precious woman who is 82 and she is still getting along and quiet beautiful! Amazing resembalance to Joan. Also lots of indian blood!

@jotge.3444 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this interview.

@subversivelysurreal3645 3 жыл бұрын

Joan Baez...we need your candor …!!

@blackfoxdelta7651 4 жыл бұрын

Vielen dank fantastisch!! I’m proud of you. The gods and the universe bless you always aunt Joan 😇♥️😇

@MrDLOC11 5 жыл бұрын

Still fierce

@frydafrida31 Жыл бұрын

@joan baez, delighted and so impressed : YOU ARE JUST THE TRUTH, THAT EVERYBODY IS SEARCHING!!! PLEASE JUST KEEP ON AND SHOW "THEM" THE WAY!! AS LEADING STAR!!! REMAIN AMAZING HUMBLE HUMAIN BEING TOWARDS THE WHOLE WORLD, ENDEED!!! GRATEFULY YOURS FOR EVER AND EVER. ⚖️🌟💖🙏

@user-ok9ft1iv4x 2 ай бұрын

Good Interview

@Diana-jx1ju 11 ай бұрын

She is a realist!

@dianawindham2744 2 жыл бұрын

She is for me an artist's model in her mind and in her

@dianawindham2744 2 жыл бұрын

art.

@tonybaker2968 2 жыл бұрын

Such a beautiful woman.

@amigopiojo11 4 жыл бұрын

Your eyes Joan...I still love your eyes 💓

@amyhamilton2201 Жыл бұрын

@amigopiojo11 Жыл бұрын

@@amyhamilton2201 No...why no? 😄

@tonysarrio8940 Жыл бұрын

I remember having a crush on her after seeing her onJohnny Carson around 1977. I alway's liked her and what she stands for.

@user-ok9ft1iv4x 2 ай бұрын

May she stay forever young. We really don't think 82 is that old if your living a good christian life with fresh garlic and hot pepper nutritional suppliments!

@jamesmoses6092 Жыл бұрын

It is real good to hear from an Angel 💘

@craigsmith1365 3 жыл бұрын

Be of good heart forever more.

@amukherjee02 4 жыл бұрын

Love u 😍

@jamesmuldowney5500 3 жыл бұрын

This interviewer is the personification of a flawed algorithm.

@user-ok9ft1iv4x 2 ай бұрын

Mother Natures Child!

@juancarlossaavedra6757 Жыл бұрын

" women hold half the sky " Mao Ze dong

@pattip2788 2 жыл бұрын

I love your music Joan Baez, but you can’t be further from the truth when you say the right-wing owns the press 😂

@liveperformances4641 Жыл бұрын

She was also having an affair with Dr. Kimg

@taddyd1 Жыл бұрын

She categorically denied it. She was having an affair with a woman during that time. She did have an affair with Harry Belafonte.

@johnpaulsecond4626 3 жыл бұрын

hopeless interviewer; good job jb

@pattip2788 2 жыл бұрын

The “bully” is Trump, I take it. Yeah, things were getting so awful during those four years for us citizen. Not! It was a hell of a lot better than that it is now.

@danvee3928 3 жыл бұрын

The interviewer talks about Martin Luther King Jr like he was Gandhi or Jesus.

@maltesetony9030 3 жыл бұрын

. . . . he was far more important than either of those two.

@danvee3928 3 жыл бұрын

@@maltesetony9030 Keep dreaming. Blacks have become more racist than the whites from the past. Blacks failed MLK big time. He would be terrified to see BLM marching against regular folks eating out and looting.

@ogtbeach 3 жыл бұрын

My apologies for not completing this post- In closing , the looters, are NOT those who practice non-violent protest. Just stop painting an unrealistic image of Blacks marching through a crowd of “nice folks enjoying dinner!”. Current protest marches usually pass through boarded up black/brown neighborhoods where those businesses with knowledge of these marches have come to expect a level of discourse. The outcome SO different from the insurrection this country witnessed this past January at the Capital. I believe that level of destruction and looting negates any of your ideas you highlight in your post. In closing, Dan Vee, the WORLD saw live time the two different unspoken laws our country practices. One for Back/Brown citizens and one for the privileged Whites. I understand your writing continues to paint that outdated beliefs regarding the communities of diversity. Again, review the events in January, 2021 in the nation’s Capital. BLM protesters have never experienced this “Welcoming” to act like the vile, angry, misdirected mob to display aggression which turned to violence and murder such as that we witnessed on that day. After that act of insurrection, the proof you are out of touch is clear...Dr. King would see after 50 years times have changed but the oppression of black and browns folks continues. It is time to face your own fears, Sir! We are ALL God’s children! Yes, different strengths and weaknesses are part of our diversity. Sadly, for the haters the fear is real! The Bothers will almost always have a larger penis...that’s what I believe you and your white friends can not accept! Deal with it! As always...Joan remains an activist, role model, brilliant performing and recording artist, author and enlightened women who’s light has illuminated the path of Those who accept and reject the reality of oppression which continues in 2021.

@danvee3928 3 жыл бұрын

@@ogtbeach you only see wha you want to see. Very unfortunate - for you!

@bonaudannesylvie2745 2 жыл бұрын

Or the egual....