It’s 1963, and throngs of Black folks have packed the National Mall for the March on Washington. Images of jubilant men and women holding flags, and dressed in their Sunday best, strewn across the screen. They’re waiting for, as many have called him, “the moral leader of our nation.” They’re waiting for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The footage recounting this history-altering event — which witnessed King deliver his soul stirring “I Have a Dream…” speech — is gorgeously restored into sharp detail. But unbeknownst to the assembled masses, the movement is under siege from more than southern bigots. America’s very government is actively trying to undermine, discredit and halt King and the Civil Rights movement in its tracks.

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