Byron Allen

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1,049 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 20 Jun

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meant a lot to me as he did others and I got to know his widow

Coretta Scott King, and I'm making a movie about her journey and her life and Martin.

And she said, you know, Byron, they didn't kill my Martin, that's how she referred to him, my Martin, over the I have a dream speech.

She said, they killed my Martin over the speech he gave at Stanford University in February of 68, the other America.

And in that speech, she said, Byron, he said, there are two Americas.

One America has access to opportunity, education, and economic inclusion and other things.

And she said, and the other America does not.

And two Americas will not survive.

We must achieve one America.

And the great prophet Martin Luther King Jr.

showed us that this isn't gonna work and we're starting to see it unfold, the two Americas.

And from that moment on, I saw things differently.

From that moment on, she said to me, they killed him over economic inclusion.

Civil rights had pretty much been achieved.

It was economic inclusion.

And he was starting to speak out for poor white people.

And she was so- They knew the power of that.

It's over.

I love Coretta.

I consider her the true queen of America because she's the one

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