James Brown - The Night James Brown Saved Boston poster

James Brown - The Night James Brown Saved Boston

2008 6.6 1h 0m

On April 5, 1968, soul legend James Brown performed a concert in Boston that many say shielded that city from the kinds of devastating riots that ripped other cities apart after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Cast

Cornel West Self (as Dr. Cornel West)

James Brown Self (archive footage)

Muhammad Ali Self (archive footage)

Michael Ambrosino Self

Tom Atkins Self

Charles Bobbitt Self (as Charles Bobbit)

Bobby Byrd Self (archive footage)

Martin Luther King Jr. Self (archive footage)

Coretta Scott King Self (archive footage)

Robert F. Kennedy Self (archive footage)

Lyndon B. Johnson Self (archive footage)

Richard Nixon Self (archive footage)