Almanac: At the Capitol

In 1959 Martin Luther King Jr was known chiefly for his role in the successful Montgomery bus boycott. It was years before his "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington. King sat down for his KTCA interview while on a trip to Minnesota. His interviewer was L. Howard Bennett, a civil rights leader and the first African-American judge in Minnesota. Bennett and King talked about segregation in the South, but much of their conversation had to do with racial issues that were also simmering in the North.