Lawrence “Larry” Hamm, civil rights activist and chairman of the Newark-based People’s Organization for Progress, was featured on an episode of the News Beat podcast titled “MLK: What They Won’t Teach In School,” providing insight regarding Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s last days.

The episode also features Reverend Roger C. Williams of the First Baptist Church of Glen Cove, N.Y., Dr. King’s own words, and original rap lyrics by New Jersey-based hip-hop artist, Silent Knight.

“MLK: What They Won’t Teach In School” purposefully looks past “I have a dream…”, the four words Dr. King has been almost exclusively associated with over the years, to examine the policies and ideologies he was advocating for during the last years of his life, particularly regarding the Poor People’s Campaign, a movement seeking economic justice for all of the nation’s poor and working class.

“He said that he wanted to take a million people to Washington, D.C.,” Hamm explains. “He said, ‘I want to take the Negroes from the ghetto, the Indians from the reservations, the poor whites from Appalachia, the Latinos from the barrios, and they were going to go to D.C. and engage in massive civil disobedience until Congress passed an Economic Bill of Rights… For everybody.”

Reverend Williams echoed the sentiment that Dr. King’s legacy was much more than his seminal speech. “It seems the entire legacy of this man has been instilled into those four words, packaged and spoon-fed to the public,” he says. “We’re doing a disservice to our children by striking a single note over and over again, expecting them to hear the entire symphony.”