A presentation of key events in the life of civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. Beginning with the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, MLK is followed through major steps in his struggle to promote racial equality. Including footage of King's stirring speeches, it is a fitting tribute to his legacy, and features clips narrated by a wide range of celebrities, including Harry Belafonte, Paul Newman Charlton Heston, Ruby Dee, Burt Lancaster, Anthony Quinn, Walter Matthau, Ben Gazzara, Clarence Williams III, Joanne Woodward, and James Earl Jones.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Coretta Scott King
A.D. King
Dexter King
Yolanda King
Martin Luther King III
Bernice King
Ralph Abernathy
Joan Baez
James Baldwin
Harry Belafonte
Tony Bennett
Leonard Bernstein
Marlon Brando
H. Rap Brown
Kwame Ture
Diahann Carroll
Wilt Chamberlain
Xernona Clayton
Bull Connor
Bill Cosby
Sammy Davis Jr.
Ruby Dee
James Garner
Ben Gazzara
Dick Gregory
Al Hibbler
Charlton Heston
Hubert H. Humphrey
Jesse Jackson
Mahalia Jackson
Gunnar Jahn
James Earl Jones
Lyndon B. Johnson
Ethel Kennedy
Jacqueline Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy
Burt Lancaster
John Lewis
Elaine May
Eugene McCarthy
Robert Moseley
Mike Nichols
Paul Newman
Richard Nixon
John M. Patterson
Anthony Perkins
Sidney Poitier
A. Philip Randolph
Frederick Reese
Nipsey Russell
Bayard Rustin
Anthony Quinn
Fred Lee Shuttlesworth
Nina Simone
Paul Stookey
Mary Travers
Leslie Uggams
C.T. Vivian
Clarence Williams III
Paul Winfield
Joanne Woodward
Peter Yarrow
Andrew Young