Museum object · Time-based Media - Moving Images
"I Have a Dream": The Life of Martin Luther King
ca. 1968
Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.
A documentary short with the title "I Have a Dream": The Life of Martin Luther King. It consists of a single reel of black-and-white 16mm polyester film with an optical sound track. With an emphasis on Dr. King's public appearances, the documentary shows scenes from Dr. King's early life and provides a chronology of the civil rights movements of the 1950s and 1960s.
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Catalog reference: 2017.55.83.1a
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