The Documentary Podcast: Archive 2014 - My Family's Fight for Civil Rights

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Baroness Oona King, former British Labour MP, discovers her American family's role in the fight for equality. Her grandfather and uncles worked with Martin Luther King in The Albany Movement, a campaign that tried to desegregate their home town in Georgia. Oona travelled to Albany to speak to members of the movement on the 50th anniversary of the passing of The Civil Rights Act.

Published on Wednesday, 2nd July 2014.

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