Tuesday, 25 August 2009 20:02
At the River I Stand
DVD, 60 min., 1993
The 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike that became the last crusade of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is the focus of this documentary. Although remembered as the struggle which culminated in the assassination of Dr. King, the strike is significant in itself as a watershed event in the civil rights movement. It was a tragic test of Dr. King's philosophy of nonviolence, and the key event in King's attempt to merge civil rights issues with a broader concern for economic issues.
The 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike that became the last crusade of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is the focus of this documentary. Although remembered as the struggle which culminated in the assassination of Dr. King, the strike is significant in itself as a watershed event in the civil rights movement. It was a tragic test of Dr. King's philosophy of nonviolence, and the key event in King's attempt to merge civil rights issues with a broader concern for economic issues.
Category:
African American Studies