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It was Martin Luther King Jr. who had the dream.

But it was the pop songwriters of the 1960s who set it to music.

And a few brave TV producers who put it on the tube. And a few exceptional Hollywood actors who embodied it on screen.

The 1960s civil rights movement was galvanizing. King, whose birth we celebrate as a national holiday this Jan.

20, was — along with Rosa Parks, John Lewis, Fannie Lou Hamer, Bayard Rustin and many others — throwing down the gauntlet.

But who would stand with King? Who would rise to the occasion?

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Students did. So did the clergy. And so, in the early 1960s, a few committed artists and entertainers, as well.

“You’re starting to see Black people coming into your home through the television, and Black music through AM radio, and the superstar phenomenon of Sidney Poitier in movies,” said Michael Dennis, a Philadelphia filmmaker and film promoter.

For a roughly 13-year period, from