The Music, The March, The Movement | MLK Jr. March on Frankfort

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KET Kentucky's Black History and Culture 1964 March on Frankfort Martin Luther King Jr. Frankfort Kentucky civil rights segregation desegregation civil rights bill protest discrimination Civil Rights Act of 1964 music civil rights movement We Shall Overcome Freedom Singers spirituals folk music Charles Neblett nonviolent protest mlk singing jerry williams
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History-Social Science The Arts
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Classroom Teacher / Educator
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The Music, The March, The Movement | MLK Jr. March on Frankfort

Martin Luther King Jr. was the featured speaker at a March on Frankfort, Kentucky, in 1964, where an estimated 10,000 people gathered in a peaceful protest for civil rights. In 2022, researchers Joanna Hay and Le Datta Grimes, Ph.D., recorded interviews with 10 people who participated in that march as teens or young adults. Interviewees in this video explain how music brought protesters together and gave them courage.
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