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Martin Luther King, Jr. And His Times: A Multi-Media Script, Robert D. Rosenkranz
Martin Luther King, Jr. And His Times: A Multi-Media Script, Robert D. Rosenkranz
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The objective of this thesis is to create a broad perspective of Martin Luther King, Jr. and his times by placing him and his goal of creating the "beloved community" to the test of his environment: the feeling and behavior of those people whose hearts and habits he struggled to change or direct.
In order to achieve this, this multi-media script, based in history, places King in contrasting settings. Act I finds King in Montgomery where with a great deal of support he wins over vocal southern segregationists in court. In contrast, Act II takes place in the Lawndale slums …