August 27, 2018 • 2 mins
Coming September 10, Season 3 of the Thread will chart how a revolutionary idea--nonviolent resistance--changed the course of history.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
I have a dream, but one day this nation will
rise up, live out the true meaning of its cream.
I have a game. Let freedom ring from every hill
and ball hill of Mississippi, from every monthing. Fie let fredombree.
(00:28):
We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are
the change that we seek. Then it's time for victims
to be the change that we need to see. Can
(00:48):
a single powerful idea remake the world? Each season on
The Thread, we travel backwards, one story at a time,
in order to discover essentially how one thing leads to another.
This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the death of
the iconic civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
And so in season three of The Thread, we explore
(01:09):
the origins of a powerful idea, one very near and
dear to the heart of Doctor King. Non violent resistance.
Well several weeks now were the Nigro citizens of Montgomery
have been involved in a non violent protest against the
injustices which we have experienced on the busses a number
(01:32):
of years. This season we trace the path of a
truly revolutionary idea and bear witness to the rise of
a new force for achieving social change and We will
learn about some of the hidden figures who don't always
make it into the history books, but who managed to
change the world from its shadows over more than a
century of history and across the globe, from Boston to Russia,
(01:54):
to South Africa to India to a twenty seven year
old preacher in Alabama. Let up, never fight with folk,
food and bold and hating. Now it from always fight
with Lord. Subscribe now to The Thread on Apple Podcasts
or wherever you listen.
I have a dream, but one day this nation will
rise up, live out the true meaning of its cream.
I have a game. Let freedom ring from every hill
and ball hill of Mississippi, from every monthing. Fie let fredombree.
(00:28):
We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are
the change that we seek. Then it's time for victims
to be the change that we need to see. Can
(00:48):
a single powerful idea remake the world? Each season on
The Thread, we travel backwards, one story at a time,
in order to discover essentially how one thing leads to another.
This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the death of
the iconic civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
And so in season three of The Thread, we explore
(01:09):
the origins of a powerful idea, one very near and
dear to the heart of Doctor King. Non violent resistance.
Well several weeks now were the Nigro citizens of Montgomery
have been involved in a non violent protest against the
injustices which we have experienced on the busses a number
(01:32):
of years. This season we trace the path of a
truly revolutionary idea and bear witness to the rise of
a new force for achieving social change and We will
learn about some of the hidden figures who don't always
make it into the history books, but who managed to
change the world from its shadows over more than a
century of history and across the globe, from Boston to Russia,
(01:54):
to South Africa to India to a twenty seven year
old preacher in Alabama. Let up, never fight with folk,
food and bold and hating. Now it from always fight
with Lord. Subscribe now to The Thread on Apple Podcasts
or wherever you listen.
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