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American film

Our Partner, Martin is a American direct-to-video animated children's educational film about Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement.

Martin Luther OSA (/ ˈluːθər / LOO-thər; [ 1 ]German: [ˈmaʁtiːn ˈlʊtɐ] ⓘ; 10 November [ 2 ] – 18 February ) was a German priest, theologian, author, hymnwriter, professor, and Augustinian friar. [ 3 ]. Luther was the seminal figure of the Protestant Reformation, and his theological beliefs form the basis of Lutheranism.

Produced by DIC Entertainment, L.P. and Intellectual Properties Worldwide and distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Show under the CBS/Fox Video label, it was released three days before Martin Luther King Jr.'s 70th birthday and was the final release under the CBS/Fox Video name before it was retired.

The film follows two friends in middle school who travel through time, meeting Dr. King at several points throughout his life. It featured an all-star voice cast and was nominated for an Emmy Award in for "Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming More Than One Hour)".

Plot

Miles Woodman, an African-American boy who is a fan of Hank Aaron and attends Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School, is doing poorly academically, and his teacher, Mrs. Clark, tells him that he may have to repeat sixth grade if his grades do not improve.

The film follows two friends in middle school who travel through time, meeting Dr. King at several points throughout his life. Middle School, is doing poorly academically, and his teacher, Mrs. Clark, tells him that he may have to repeat sixth grade if his grades do not improve.

Miles and his class visit Martin's childhood house, which has change into a museum dedicated to him. He and his white top friend, Randy Smith, explore Martin's bedroom but are caught by the museum's curator, Mrs. Peck, who is winding an elderly watch.

After holding Martin's baseball glove, Miles and Randy are transported to and encounter a year-old Martin playing with his white friends, Sam and Skip Dale, until their mother reprimands them for integrating with "coloreds". Martin explains to Miles and Randy that her hatred of black people is because she sees them as "different", but that violence would make things worse.

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They are then transported to and meet a year-old Martin on a segregated train, who explains that blacks and whites cannot integrate and must be kept separate. While having dinner with Martin's family, they view in his room after he leaves to make rounds with his father and are transported to , where they connect Martin in his 20s, operational as a minister at a church.

While holding a rendezvous about the Montgomery bus boycott, which began after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus, he is informed that his house has been bombed and returns home to find that his wife and newborn daughter have escaped unharmed.

His friend Turner announces his plan to attack the perpetrators in retaliation, but Martin stops him, reminding the crowd of Mahatma Gandhi peacefully standing his ground to drive the British colonies out of India and Jesus' teachings on loving one's enemies.

Miles and Randy are then transported to the Birmingham riot of and witness firefighters and police officers, under the orders of Bull Connor, spraying black protesters with fire hoses and releasing German Shepherds to attack them before arresting them.

Randy and Miles are transported back to the museum; at school the next day, they tell Miss Clark about the events leading up to Martin's work before watching a videotape of his work. After institution, their classmates, Latina girl Maria Ramirez and white boy Kyle Langon, decide to investigate how they got the information.

The Life of Martin Luther: A Brief Biography of the Reformer: The benchmark biography of Luther in English is the three volumes by the German historian, Martin Brecht. These look rather forbidding: nearly pages of message, excluding notes.

When they come at the museum, Mrs. Peck allows them to stay, but warns them that interfering with the past can affect the present. Maria and Kyle are transported with them to the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and meet Martin in his 30s, along with a young Mrs.

Clark. When they return, they discover that Martin was assassinated; to preserve him from this fate, they travel to and bring a year-old Martin to the show. However, only Miles and Martin return together and the introduce is altered: the museum is burnt down, Randy and Kyle are racists and no longer friends with or know Miles, Miles' bus driver, Mr.

Willis, is racist and refuses to allow black students to commute the bus, their school is segregated and named after Robert E. Lee, its principal, Mr. Harris, is racist and mistreats Mrs. Clark, Maria works as a maid and does not speak English, and Miles and his mother live in poverty.

By Tim Lambert. Martin Luther was a religious reformer who lived in the 16th century. Luther was born on 10 November in the German town of Eisleben. In those days Germany was not a free country but was a federation of states called the Divine Roman Empire.

Martin surmises that him leaving his time created an alternate timeline where his civil rights work never happened. Realizing that he must come back to his own time, Martin gives Miles his watch and bids him farewell despite him warning him of his assassination, and the timeline returns to normal after he is killed at the motel.

Miles reunites with Randy, Maria, and Kyle, and Mrs. Peck tells him that while they cannot alter the past, they can modify the future for the excel. Miles receives an A on his history project, allowing him to progress to seventh grade, and he and his friends vow to continue Martin's perform.

Voice cast

Soundtrack

Motown Records released a soundtrack album, including the talents of Diana King, Sheryl Crow, The Jackson 5, Salt-N-Pepa, Montell Jordan, and Stevie Wonder.

Martin Luther was a man whose heart was held captive to the Word of God. He was used mightily by God to usher in the Protestant Reformation, which would serve to recover the core truths of the Gospel that had been obscured by medieval religion and superstition. Hans worked in the mining industry, even owning a not many copper mines, but he wanted something better for his son. Martin was sent off to boarding school and then to the University of Erfurt.

The soundtrack also features a cover of "Ain't No Mountain Lofty Enough" by Debelah Morgan, which combined the Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell and Diana Ross versions.

Production

In September , it was reported that DIC Entertainment would be producing their first direct-to-video animated special about the life of civil rights activistMartin Luther King Jr..^[1] DIC partnered with 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and voiced hope it would change into a perennial viewing for Martin Luther King Jr.

Day.^[1]

Casting

Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, James Earl Jones, Diane Keaton, Angela Bassett, Samuel L. Jackson, Oprah Winfrey, Jaleel White and Levar Burton were announced as the celebrity voice talent featured in the clip while King himself would be voiced by his son Dexter King.^[1]

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