ABC News: The Century
Memphis Dreams: Searching for the Promised Land
S1 • E8 Apr 4, 1999 45m
Martin Luther King did not want to go to Memphis when first asked in 1968 — the strike by the sanitation workers seemed like a distraction. But old friends insisted and so he went, discovering the cause of the garbage men was as basic as civil rights itself. This is the dramatic and emotional but little-known story of the final days of one of the greatest Americans of the century, and the struggle that led to his death.