And while I was there, I spent time at the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel. Standing there, one cannot help but feel the weight of the stakes of what Dr. King confronted. Government sanctioned segregation and redlining [existed in the past]. the vote of the people, denied by literacy tests and poll taxes, Churches bombed and People lynched. A child beaten beyond recognition and laying in a casket. (04:46–04:51)
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Asserts that government-sanctioned segregation and redlining were historical realities.
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