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Benjamin Chavis

Five decades after Martin Luther King Junior's 'I Have a Dream' speech, does Benjamin Chavis think things have changed for African Americans?

Sarah Montague speaks to controversial American civil rights leader, Benjamin Chavis. Wrongfully convicted and jailed for arson in the 1970s as part of the 'Wilmington Ten', it was more than three decades before he and his fellow activists received a 'pardon of innocence'. Five decades after Martin Luther King Junior's 'I Have a Dream' speech, how much have things really changed for African Americans?

30 minutes

Last on

Wed 7 May 2014 20:30GMT

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Interviewer Sarah Montague
Interviewed Guest Benjamin Chavis

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