The Century: Searching for the Promised Land

Part eight of a 12-part documentary series produced by the American Broadcasting Company and anchored by Peter Jennings. 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. 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. Help us caption & translate this video! http://amara.org/v/GThi/