MARTIN LUTHER KING SR: I was born in the midst of segregation at its height. It's an oral history of his father, Martin Luther King Sr. The biographer, Jonathan Eig, found a recording of a voice with a similar cadence, one that King grew up hearing. INSKEEP: We know that cadence, the drawn-out words precisely pronounced, the pauses between each phrase. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR: I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history. When he gave the famous "I Have A Dream" speech in Washington in 1963, he was in his early 30s, though his voice suggested the gravity of long experience. King became a nationally known civil rights leader in his mid-20s. But in that life, one thing is easy to overlook - how young he was. The life of Martin Luther King is one of the most famous in American history.
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