The ideals, people, and music connected to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as interpreted by Scholastic/Weston Woods Studios, including: Martin’s Big Words by Doreen Rappaport and narrated by Michael Clarke Duncan; March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World, a personal, stirring account by Martin Luther King, Jr.'s sister, Christine; Rosa by Nikki Giovanni, about how Rosa Parks boarded a Montgomery, Alabama city bus and refused to give up her seat to a white man; The Case for Loving about an interracial couple from Virginia, Mildred and Richard Loving, who fought the state’s law banning interracial marriage all the way to the Supreme Court--and won--by Selina Alko; and Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race, about the four black women whose mathematical work helped NASA put a man in space, by Margot Lee Shetterly with Winifred Conkling and narrated by Oscar winner Octavia Spencer. Age 5+
USA | 74 min. | English
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