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Rep. John Lewis recalls May 4, 1961, when 7 whites and 6 blacks traveled south to test a decision of the U.S. Supreme Court to outlaw segregation in public transportation. Attorney General Robert Kennedy intervenes on behalf of these Freedom Riders.

In an emotional and poetic speech that evokes his own family's painful history, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy informs a crowd that Martin Luther King, Jr.has been assassinated.

An examination of the issues and struggles that civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. focused on prior to his assassination, and the impact his death had on the nation.

In an emotional and poetic speech that evokes his own family's painful history, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy tells the country that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. has been assassinated.