Legacy of Love | Trailer
Preview: Season 8 Episode 1 | 1m 7sVideo has Closed Captions
The romance and radicalization of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott.
LEGACY OF LOVE reveals the meeting, romance and intellectual relationship between Coretta Scott and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. With historical dramatizations and exclusive interviews, the film shows the surprising differences between their backgrounds. Featuring brief commentaries by Christian, Jewish, Moslem, Asian-American, African-American and Latin-American community leaders.
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Legacy of Love | Trailer
Preview: Season 8 Episode 1 | 1m 7sVideo has Closed Captions
LEGACY OF LOVE reveals the meeting, romance and intellectual relationship between Coretta Scott and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. With historical dramatizations and exclusive interviews, the film shows the surprising differences between their backgrounds. Featuring brief commentaries by Christian, Jewish, Moslem, Asian-American, African-American and Latin-American community leaders.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(gentle music) [TINA MCDUFFIE] In 1951, college students, Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott, meet on a blind date in Boston.
- When he spoke, even at that time, he was a giant.
- She's already defines herself as a pacifist, concerned about issues like banning the nuclear weapons.
[TINA MCDUFFIE] Together, they dream of making the country a better place.
- When he kept preaching to us about our destiny, about what to look forward to.
- We wanted change.
We wanted change.
We wanted people to have an equal opportunity.
- He pledges to Coretta that the gospel that he will preach to the world has to do with a war-less world, a better distribution of wealth, a brotherhood that transcends race or color.
These political ideas become the glue that hold this relationship together.
[TINA MCDUFFIE] Legacy of Love on Local USA.
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