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A biographical film about Martin Luther King Jr, and the civil rights movement. Footage of MLKs funeral in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968. Amazing grace is played while the hearse enters. Wreaths adorn the hearse and a large crowd attends the funeral. Ralph Abernathy, a civil rights leader and minister, gives a prayer/ speech in his honor. Small black children play while Abernathy talks about the future generations. Reporters take photos.