Dr. Martin Luther King at Gee’s Bend | Retro Report

This eight-minute video illustrates the achievements of the Civil Rights Movement by focusing on the small community of Gee’s Bend, Alabama: a town that attracted the attention of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the 1960s. The video helps students draw a line between King’s movement nearly five decades ago and the barriers to equality and opportunity that residents of Gee’s Bend face today. For lessons focused on the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, the video serves as a bridge between the past and the present, and sets up a discussion about the unfinished agenda of King’s movement.