How Boston Set The Stage For A 'Legacy Of Love' Between Martin Luther King Jr. And Coretta Scott King

They were just two of the thousands of students who each year arrive in Boston for college. He, the heir to a historic ministry, she the poor small-town girl with big music dreams. In 1950s Boston, Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott met and fell in love in what became the early stages of a lifelong commitment to each other and to the civil rights movement. Their Boston story is captured in the documentary film, "Legacy of Love.”

Guests:

Roberto Mighty, writer, producer, and director of "Legacy of Love."

Reverend Walter Fluker, the Martin Luther King Jr. Professor Emeritus at Boston University.

"Legacy of Love" will re-broadcast on Thursday, January 21st at 10:30pm on GBH 2.

LATER IN THE SHOW:

The Montgomery Bus Boycott catapulted the young Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to leadership in the civil rights movement. History and fate linked him to Rosa Parks and to local civil rights advocates the Gray brothers — attorney Fred Gray and activist Thomas Gray.

Now, niece and daughter Karen Gray Houston profiles her family’s involvement in the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the movement that changed America.

“Daughter of the Boycott: Carrying on a Montgomery Family's Civil Rights Legacy” is our January selection for “Bookmarked: The Under the Radar Book Club.”

This was a labor of love for author Karen Gray Houston, a retired Washington, D.C. WTTG-TV reporter, who got her start in Boston working for United Press International.

SHOW OUTRO

Under the Radar with Callie Crossley is a production of GBH, produced by Hannah Uebele and engineered by Dave Goodman.

Our theme music is FISH AND CHIPS by #weare2saxys’, Grace Kelly and Leo P.