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Post date: Jul 03, 2013 4:33:22 PM
Greenville, South Carolina - The film "Building the dream" will be shown on SC ETV on August 22 at 9 PM during the 50th anniversary of Dr. King's "I have a Dream" speech. This 60 minute film is been distributed by the National Educational Telecommunications Association along with the Martin Luther King Memorial Foundation and should be available ETV/PBS Stations nation-wide. The film was first previewed at the 2013 Alpha Phi Alpha National Convention in Austin, TX on June 29th. A second showing of the documentary will be held on August 25th at 5 PM.
In production for more than four years, Building the Dream offers unique insight into the challenges faced - and overcome - in the twenty-seven year effort to create a national memorial to Martin Luther King, Jr. Interviews with Bill Clinton, Colin Powell, Andrew Young, John Lewis, John Warner, Connie Morella, John Sarbanes, King family members, and others tell the story of the Memorial from conception to completion.
Building the Dream recounts the origins of a bold idea for an MLK Memorial which originated at a small, informal gathering of King’s Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity brothers in 1983. Alpha Phi Alpha takes up the cause, eventually creating the MLK Memorial Foundation to broaden the effort including corporate and private partners in the cause. The film follows the project through fundraising, design, bureaucratic hurdles, and groundbreaking, and shows the stones arriving on site and being moved into place. We watch as the nation celebrates the public opening of the Memorial with a gala dedication ceremony.
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial design is based on words from Dr. King’s speech delivered on August 28 at the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington. “With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.”
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Sited from Alabama Public TV article on July 9th. http://www.aptv.org/Press/detail.asp?PressID=119
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