James Brown. A clip from the documentary, "The Night James Brown Saved Boston", features interviews discussing Boston and the racial segregation in the 1960s. The city of Boston was important to Martin Luther King, Jr. since that is where he met his wife Coretta Scott King and studied for his Ph.D.

Video transcript:

Cornel West: Boston the cradle of liberty known for her banned books, her baked beans and jokes about our accent.

Dr. Andrew Young: Boston was very important for Martin Luther King. He receive his Ph.D. at Boston University. He met his wife at Boston and it was a wonderful time for him it was where he got indoctrinated in the American dream.

Martin Luther King: I am delighted to express my support to all that you are seeking to remove racial injustice and segregation from the life of Boston and the life of Massachusetts.

Cornel West: Boston historically has been a liberal city in terms of each intellects in self image but deeply segregated based on race in term of its practice.

Talk me about give me liberty or give me -

Cornel West: Boston is never been a city that is highly appealing to black folk. We don't think of Boston as a center of black life the way you think of Detroit and New York.

Dr. Robert Hall: It was a very vulcanized city it isn't a great type neighborhood and by that time Mid 60's they were concentrated and Roxbury and sound end.

David Gates: When they it was an island so much is a territory on the other of the devon. It was East Berlin.

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