Martin Luther King, Jr: Crash Course Black American History #36

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Today we're going to learn about perhaps the best-known leader in the Civil Rights Era, Martin Luther King, Jr. From his rise to notoriety during the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955, his leadership of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the March on Washington in 1963, his work toward the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts of the mid-1960s, and his assassination in 1968, Dr. King is very broadly known. But maybe he isn't that well understood. Like many extremely famous people, Martin Luther King can sometimes be drawn as a bit of a flat character, and his ideas can be reduced to platitudes. Today we'll try to give you a fuller picture of the man and leader he was.
Clint's book, How the Word is Passed is available now! bookshop.org/a/3859/978031649...
SOURCES:
Rustin, “Montgomery Diary,” Liberation (April 1956): 7-10.
D’Emilio, Lost Prophet, 2003.
King to Edward P. Gotlieb, 18 March 1960, in Papers 5:390-391.
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@Rashaadthegr8 2 жыл бұрын

Let's not forget the teenage mom before Rosa who didn't give up her seat.

@tenneshaskyers 2 жыл бұрын

they didn't it's in the previous video. they also documented the many before her in other videos

@KristofDE 2 жыл бұрын

Great to see a more nuanced dive into MLK's history and views. Thanks as always!

@SpeakShibboleth 2 жыл бұрын

I turn 39 this year, the age King was when he was assassinated. He'd been leading a cause he believed in for over a decade. I need to get to work.

@DanielFernandez-sd7bp 2 жыл бұрын

While Dr. King’s full history, writings, and teachings have been recorded and stored for the history books; he has only been celebrated and remembered for his view points before 1965. The public and the history books have attempted to focus only on Dr. King’s idealistic phase. Back when he still believed that while America did discriminate against their African American population, the country’s written philosophy of freedom and individual’s rights were something that can still be fully realized. This simplistic view of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is a great disservice to him and ultimately robs the world of knowing all of his concepts and philosophies.

@sophiaflagg4259 2 жыл бұрын

I love these Crash Course History lessons.

@tenneshaskyers 2 жыл бұрын

Me too 😍 Im learning so much that i didnt know

@greenredblue 2 жыл бұрын

It's so easy to ignore that MLK, now a secular saint, wasn't popular in his day. I wish we meditated more on what this means. It's easy to throw prior generations under the bus and pretend there's a comforting distance between them and us, but there are people _today_ who are dismissed or hated for nothing worse than trying to build a more just world for everyone.

@timsmith9503 2 жыл бұрын

King's statement about the White Moderate is definitely a convicting statement to me. I have often said I agree with your goal but disagree with your method or approach when talking to someone more progressive then I am. I will will need to rethink that statement.

@VictoriaLavarello 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing! Thanks for broadcasting knowledge to everyone in this platform. Greetings from Peru! 🇵🇪

@aliviablount 2 жыл бұрын

I didn’t realize that the letter from a Birmingham jail was a response to white moderates

@AudreySmith-223 2 жыл бұрын

I always say For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone

@user-on9dz8it1k 11 ай бұрын

I can't thank you enough for this series. Thank you so much!!!!!!!!. great work as always .

@barrabas1962 11 ай бұрын

Excellent video. I'm on an American roadtrip. Civil Rights is an important political journey for me. Now in Atlanta, having visited Topeka, New Orleans, Memphis and Nashville, this gives me a quick but detailed introduction to the part MLK Jr played and his more political direction before his brutal assassination by the assassin nation!

@jimmythompson1979 2 жыл бұрын

So well done! Thank you for this series!

@dariangregory6182 2 жыл бұрын

"I fear I am integrating my people into a burning house"-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

@KY_CPA 2 жыл бұрын

I don't understand how there are so few views and contents on one of the best educational KZfaq videos about MLK. Even if there's not much interaction on this video yet, this is a great video, great series, and I hope you all continue the amazing work!

@LegoLordPro 2 жыл бұрын

Now we have a concrete version of MLK thanks to this video (and the sources used for the research). Thank your Mr. Smith for improving my knowledge about Dr. King.

@brandonanderson2689 2 жыл бұрын

I'm a huge fan of this series, it's educated me on things I didn't know even as a student of our history. I do think that it was a missed opportunity to not have individual episodes about Harriet Tubman (yes she's in the Underground Railroad one but she deserves the spotlight), Marcus Garvey (he's not talked about enough) & Sojourner Truth. But overall I love this & can't wait to see where else it goes (hopefully to Malcolm X & even the Nation of Islam)

@DJMarkCorneliusThaDon 2 жыл бұрын

Oh I can't wait until you do Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabaz) & the Black Panthers!!!

@darkacademiavanessa 2 жыл бұрын

it's interesting how history repeats itself. a lot of protesters in the summer of 2020 were villified, as was mlk, for protesting peacefully.

@tenneshaskyers 2 жыл бұрын

Dr. King's final speech was prophetic and proof that we will get to the promised land and have equality among black indigenous and people of color. I look forward to that day and look forward to playing a part in that journey.

@SalesforceUSA Жыл бұрын

Southern trees bear a strange fruit Blood on the 🍃 leaves and blood at the root Black bodies swinging in the Southern breeze Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees. ~ Billie Hoilday, (1915-1959) "Strange Fruit." American jazz singer and songwriter

@newzealand703 2 жыл бұрын

I can't thank you enough for this series. Thank you so much!!!!!!!!

@terryts2 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for doing this video. We need more on not just him but the very many other activists and freedom fighters that came before us.

@bobatea4732 6 ай бұрын

I just learned a lot, thanks!

@hakeemfullerton8645 2 жыл бұрын

Well done with the video Crash Course

@sahara-lu6eq 2 жыл бұрын

great work as always ❤

@lilithrogers5204 Жыл бұрын

Thank You for bringing Dr. King's great spirit and wisdom to us in full.🥰 He will always live on.❤❤

@richardlynch1094 Жыл бұрын

So many tears for how far we have not come. Rest in Power King.

@davidherman9769 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this post! Very informative

@pongop Жыл бұрын

Great episode! Thank you!

@Ellipsis115 2 жыл бұрын

Its a shame so many of the things he said still right true today. And as such I plan to read some of his work as it will still be applicable.

@LokiBeckonswow Жыл бұрын

11:02 is a great example of the depth of King's views, I didn't know of these, these are such powerful stances for him to have died with back in the 60s - modern worldly peoples should be screaming his words from every rooftop haha what a King "No on should be forced to live in poverty while others live in luxury" - reminding us all that 2022 was the coinciding year of 50 year inflation high, as well as 50 year corporate profit high - a global wealth tax is the solution

@patrickjenkins6383 2 жыл бұрын

Wow. Thank you & your team. 👍💙😎

@orlawatson6916 2 жыл бұрын

made me cry, what a brillinat video and very powerful deliberate prestenter

@Legal_Savant Жыл бұрын

Coretta once stated that "it was his pivot to economic equality that got him murdered."

@likebot. 2 жыл бұрын

A guaranteed basic income pays for itself.

@VerhoevenSimon 2 жыл бұрын

Superb to see a more nuanced discours.

@kathleenba9639 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome video

@rparl 2 жыл бұрын

Great video.

@CstleCrsher Жыл бұрын

CrashCourse really is the best at what they do! There's very few figures as impressive as MLK. The man is a real hero.

@sonofabippi Жыл бұрын

I said "I need to show my kids some stuff for MLK day. We're at least giving this day an hour of our day off." and we watched a few videos here and there. This one though, they shut-up, and I think this might be one of the only videos they listened to every word of, in ages.

@body46 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@simplez4ck 2 жыл бұрын

I share his birthday I try to honor him all the time and fight for his dream.

@nobody8328 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you 💖

@stephenipsen3776 2 жыл бұрын

I just realized you don't use some sort of uplifting musical punctuation in your presentations. Thank you so much. Such music is often geared towards a specific agreeable response, are generally too loud, and drown out the speaker. A patriotic laugh track, if you well. Well, I am glad you don't. I can decide my own response, thanks.

@VMI33 2 жыл бұрын

That the part of the letter that ppl don’t like to tweet

@chrisforsyth8323 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@LokiBeckonswow Жыл бұрын

damn this video is so epic, MLKjr was such a badass, his ability to reasonably oppose injustice with such clarity and persuasion was so powerful, thanks so much for the learning !

@gracejireh8106 Жыл бұрын

i have a question, do you have a Harriet Tubman video????

@crashcourse Жыл бұрын

we talk about Harriet Tubman in episode 15 of Black American History! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eN-YYKua2d-meYE.html

@robertgill7799 Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@williambilyeu9801 Жыл бұрын

If one wants to read more, Library of America has a two-volume set of writings in "Reporting Civil Rights."

@februaryschild0216 Жыл бұрын

Where's Stokely Carmichael the founder of SNCC? You never talk ab him.

@worthydigital8882 Жыл бұрын

Martin Luther King Jr pledged Alpha Phi Alpha at Boston University not Morehouse College.

@jaquanpowell4605 2 жыл бұрын

The sad thing is how misquoted the man was and is. He taught so much more than nonviolence. His views on reparations is one of the main reasons why they killed him.

@phomo561 2 жыл бұрын

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

@bbrev106 Жыл бұрын

🤙

@autumncortez6254 Жыл бұрын

He was a man I feel people can trust. Because of how he practiced what he preached. He wanted all races to be included and he himself included all people.