PBS is airing a documentary later this month called "The March," which focuses on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s historic Washington D.C. march highlighted by his "I Have a Dream" speech.
At the 2013 TCA press tour, Clayborne Carson, the founding director of Stanford's Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute, who was a participant in the march 50 years ago, tells the room that he considers the march to be a game-changer, not just in regards to civil rights, but also in regards to the media coverage.
"While those of us who worked in the civil rights movement had heard about Dr. King and followed him, in terms of the overwhelming majority of the country ... most people had not heard him or seen him speak in real time," says Carson. "In all the major media markets in the United States ... you had people seeing Martin Luther King Jr....
At the 2013 TCA press tour, Clayborne Carson, the founding director of Stanford's Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute, who was a participant in the march 50 years ago, tells the room that he considers the march to be a game-changer, not just in regards to civil rights, but also in regards to the media coverage.
"While those of us who worked in the civil rights movement had heard about Dr. King and followed him, in terms of the overwhelming majority of the country ... most people had not heard him or seen him speak in real time," says Carson. "In all the major media markets in the United States ... you had people seeing Martin Luther King Jr....
- 8/5/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Beverly Hills, Calif. — Denzel Washington will narrate a PBS documentary about the 1963 March on Washington for civil rights.
The network told the Television Critics Association on Monday that the actor had just completed taping his narration for the film "The March" airing Aug. 27, a day after the 50th anniversary of the march that featured Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech.
The film includes march participants Clarence Jones, a King aide; Joyce Ladner, field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; and Clayborne Carson, a Stanford history professor. Roger Mudd, who anchored CBS' dawn-to-dusk coverage of the march, will share his recollections.
The network told the Television Critics Association on Monday that the actor had just completed taping his narration for the film "The March" airing Aug. 27, a day after the 50th anniversary of the march that featured Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech.
The film includes march participants Clarence Jones, a King aide; Joyce Ladner, field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; and Clayborne Carson, a Stanford history professor. Roger Mudd, who anchored CBS' dawn-to-dusk coverage of the march, will share his recollections.
- 8/5/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
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