MLK 1967: No Other Ethnic Group Has Been a Slave on American Soil

Martin Luther King, Jr. in a 1967 with NBC – interview by Sander Vanocur.

MLK: "It's a cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his bootstraps."

WATCH: "It's a cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his bootstraps. And many Negroes, by the thousands and millions, have been left bootless … as the result of a society that deliberately made his color a stigma…” Martin Luther King Jr. would've turned 90 today. nbcnews.to/2GRn0yN

Posted by NBC News on Tuesday, January 15, 2019