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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. talks about his life and childhood in 1961 interview

By Hosts
Published January 19, 2026 at 4:00 AM CST

NPR revisits a series of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation interviews with a soft-spoken Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from 1961.

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