provide booktv to viewers as a public service. good afternoon and thank you so much for joining us for this author talk. it is just one part at the atlanta history center is virtual martin luther king, jr. day annual virtual author. although this year there s a wealth of material and educational resources on dr. king available online due to the pandemic. i am virginia prescott come thrilled to be hosting this conversation with charles black and the reverend doctor otis moss, friends and colleagues of dr. king, and paul kendrick and the reverend stephen kendrick, here with us to talk about a little-known but extreme the consequential event in the life of dr. king as we will learn in the decades of american politics that followed. before the march from selma to montgomery, before the i have a dream speech in washington and before the letter from the birmingham jail, dr. king was sentenced to four months of hard labor by a dekalb county judge stint from a traffic violation. ni
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