US King - 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King speech
TAPE: EF03/0775
IN_TIME: 00:39:59
DURATION: 3:41
SOURCES: VARIOUS
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DATELINE: Washington DC - 28 August 2003/recent/file
SHOTLIST:
APTN File
Washington, DC - August 28, 1963
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1. Wide of people on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial
2. People clapping
3. Wide of Lincoln Memorial
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Luther King, Jr:
"Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, we are free at last."
ABC File
Unidentified Location/date
5. Still photo of King with his children and wife
APTN
Washington, DC - August 28, 2003
6. Martin Luther King III walking up to podium
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Luther King III:
"I would have to say that components of the dream have come true, but we still have a long way to go."
APTN
Washington, DC - August 28, 1963
(Copyright Permission Granted by Intellectual Properties Management, Atlanta, Georgia, as manager of the King Estate - Must Courtesy King Estate. Not for Library or archives. Copyright holder requires the following statement as on screen mention or included in voice track: "Further Dr. King's legacy by making community service a way of life. Please visit the King Center's website to find a service opportunity in your neighbourhood: www.thekingcenter.org")
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Martin Luther King, Jr:
"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true nature of its creed."
9. Wide of crowds at the speech
APTN
New York City, New York - August 21, 2003
10. Book "The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Speech that Inspired a Nation"
11. Author Drew Hansen looking at book
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Drew Hansen, Author of "The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Speech that Inspired a Nation":
"There was a lot of anxiety about the march on Washington. A lot of members of Congress, representatives of the media, thought it could turn into a riot. And so Washington was a heavily armed camp on the morning of the march."
ABC File
Unidentified Locations/dates
13. Man drinking from a "White Only" drinking fountain
14. White's only store
15. Ku Klux Klan members burning a cross
ABC
Washington, DC - August 24, 2003
16. SOUNDBITE (English) John Lewis, Democratic Congressman from Georgia and Civil Rights activist:
"A tremendous amount of fear, especially in the heart of the Deep South. People were literally afraid to stand up for themselves in many places. They would get arrested, go to jail, get beaten, maybe shot, maybe killed. But the fear is gone now."
APTN File
??? AS INCOMING
Los Angeles, California, 1991
17. Video of Rodney King being beaten by police
APTN File
Inglewood, California
18. African-American teenager being beaten by police
19. Close-up of police punching suspect
POOL File
Inglewood, California - July, 2003
20. Police officer Bijan Darvish being acquitted of charges in beating
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Molly Bell, activist:
"I mean, what do we have to do? We get it on video. We get it on tape. Still, no justice."
APTN
Washington, DC - August 22, 2003
22. Exterior of Ben's Chili Bowl restaurant
23. People eating in restaurant
24. SOUNDBITE (English) Ben Ali, owner of Ben's Chili Bowl:
"Well, he said 'you have a dream' and now you try to realise your dream. And your dream is striving for excellence."
25. SOUNDBITE (English) Marion Barry, former Mayor of Washington:
"We've made a lot of progress in the social areas, lunch counters and libraries and inter-state travel but when it comes to where the money is, there's still a lot of racism."
26. Memorial plaque on steps of the Lincoln Memorial where King, Jr. gave his "Dream" speech
27. Tourists taking pictures of plaque
28. Plaque with Washington Monument in background
STORYLINE:
Forty years after his famous "I have a dream" speech, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s vision of a colorblind America has yet to be achieved, according to many African-Americans and Civil Rights leaders.
King made his speech on August 28, 1963 to an estimated quarter-of-a-million activists gathered to demand equal rights for blacks on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC.
Now his son, Martin Luther King III is intent on furthering the assassinated leader's legacy alive.
He held a news conference in Washington on Thursday to mark the date, saying that while progress has been made, the dream is still a dream, especially in the economic realm.
The day of the speech, many of the nation's leaders were quietly alarmed and feared for their safety, even alerting the Pentagon to have armed troops at the ready, says author Drew Hansen.
Hansen has just published a book on the subject - "The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Speech that Inspired a Nation."
Many of the era's Civil Rights leaders compare today favourably with their treatment in the past.
John Lewis, a Democratic congressman from Georgia, remembers the risk of beatings, shootings and lynchings he faced in the Deep South, and says the fear is gone.
But many younger African-Americans don't relate to the 1960's and segregation as much as they relate to Rodney King and the perception of police racial profiling.
The recent acquittal of one of the police officers videotaped beating an African-American teenager in Inglewood, California for a driver's licence violation sparked new outrage in the community.
Many blacks say they still get no justice in the legal world.
That feeling extends to the financial domain as well.
Unemployment in the African-American community is still much higher than among whites. They also earn lower wages.
At Ben's Chili Bowl, a popular black eatery in Washington, DC that served Martin Luther King, Jr. during his visits to Washington, the feeling is that the dream is still taking form.
Ben Ali, owner of the restaurant, says things are better now than then, and points to multi-millionaire success stories in the world of athletics, arts and politics.
Former Mayor Marion Barry, who was a King-era Civil Rights leader himself, says that racism is still apparent in the economic world, where blacks have difficulty joining the corporate world at the highest levels.