Today is the national celebration of Dr Martin Luther King’s birthday, and so we start by exploring the legacy of the civil rights movement with David Dennis Jr, who wrote a book in collaboration with his father, David Dennis Sr, who was an activist on the front lines of the 1960s civil rights movement. The book is called The Movement Made Us: A Father, a Son, and the Legacy of a Freedom Ride and it chronicles everything from his first freedom ride to his first meeting with Dr Martin Luther King Jr, to the birth of Freedom Summer; but also the mental, emotional and spiritual impact of those times on David Dennis Sr and his family. David Dennis Jr is a freelance writer, educator, editor, social commentator and visiting professor of journalism and morehouse college. David Dennis Sr is a civil rights veteran and one of the original freedom riders, riding from Montgomery to Jackson in 1961, served as field secretary for the Congress Of Racial Equity (CORE), and helped organize Freedom Summer in 1964 – and so much more.
Then we turn directly to Dr Martin Luther King, Jr, on his birthday weekend, with excerpts from a speech from New York’s Riverside Church on April 4th, 1967 – a speech that has become known as Beyond Vietnam, where he articulates the intersections of the white supremacy at home and US imperialism abroad, drawing out connections between the fight against white supremacy globally – from the violence of American policing locally to the violence of our imperialism abroad.
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