When Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech in August 1963, the civil rights activist was already a known preacher. After he spoke on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, King solidified his position as one of the greatest leaders of the civil rights movement and became one of America’s most celebrated historical figures. But that legendary speech is when most people stop learning about the leader. Sure, children learn about everything King achieved before his March on Washington in 1963, like his Montgomery bus boycott in 1955 and his nonviolent protests for equality and desegregation in the South. But what about King’s life after he told a crowd of nearly 250,000 people of his dream? A new HBO documentary, King in the Wilderness, seeks to answer that question. The two-hour special is set to air Monday, two days before the 50th anniversary of King’s death on April 4, 1968. Directed by filmmaker Peter Kunhardt, King in the Wilderness isn’t the same old story of MLK we’ve been taught throughout the years; rather, it is an in-depth look at King’s final, tumultuous years of life. “One of the moments at the top of the film… Read full this story
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