Self (with RFK during March On Washington) is a real person portrayed by Martin Luther King in the TV series American Experience (based on a true story).
In the first episode they appeared in, titled LBJ: Part 2 - My Fellow Americans (season 4), they were 62 years old.
They appear in 9 episodes out of a total of 387 aired so far
Episodes9
LBJ: Part 2 - My Fellow Americans
episode S4.E2 october 1991Award winning filmmaker David Grubin profiles one of the most controversial U.S. presidents, Lyndon Baines Johnson, who rose from obscurity to the pinnacle of power, only to suffer disillusionment and defeat. Witness the events that brought LBJ from Texas to Washington, the White House, and a landslide election in 1964. Follow his triumphs in passing a wave of social legislation then his downward spiral which ends in withdrawal from politics. This is the second of two parts.Malcolm X: Make It Plain
episode S6.E7 january 1994Daley: The Last Boss
episode S8.E6 january 1996Documentary about Chicago's mayor, Richard J. Daley.Citizen King
episode S16.E4 january 2004A documentary that draws on input from a broad cross-section of people to examine to last five years of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life.RFK
episode S17.E1 october 2004Part One: The Garish Sun: Robert F. Kennedy devotes himself to his brother John, then deals with the pain of the assassination.Roads to Memphis
episode S22.E7 may 2010This film tells the story of an assassin, James Earl Ray, his target, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the seething, turbulent forces in American society that led these two men to their violent and tragic collision in Memphis in April 1968.1964
episode S26.E7 january 2014The pivotal year that essentially ushered in the true 1960s is explored.Klansville U.S.A.
episode S27.E3 january 2015Investigate the reasons North Carolina, long seen as the most progressive state in the South, became home to the largest Klan organization in the country, with more members than all the other Southern states combined, during the 1960s.The Busing Battleground
episode S35.E7 september 2023Court-mandated social integration unleashes racial unrest throughout Boston in the 1970s as Black and White students are bussed together.
- LBJ: Part 2 - My Fellow Americans
- Malcolm X: Make It Plain
- Daley: The Last Boss
- Citizen King
- RFK
- Roads to Memphis
- 1964
- Klansville U.S.A.
- The Busing Battleground