'A riot is the language of the unheard.' —Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King

Three years after “I Have a Dream” and the March on Washington, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King spoke with Mike Wallace of CBS News about change within the Civil Rights movement.

Excerpt:

I contend that the cry of “black power” is, at bottom, a reaction to the reluctance of white power to make the kind of changes necessary to make justice a reality for the Negro. I think that we’ve got to see that a riot is the language of the unheard.

FULL VIDEO at CBS News:
September 27, 1966: MLK—A riot is the language of the unheard
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