Traveling With Dr. King

Our Friend Martin is a new animated video that is designed to educate young people about the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and to entertain them at the same time with a plot involving two time-traveling teen-agers.

When the two main characters travel back in time, reports CBS This Morning Contributor Eleanor Mondale, they cross paths with the young Martin.

"I think it is going to make a real contribution in terms of helping young people to understand what Martin's message really was," says Coretta Scott King, the widow of Dr. King. "To help them to want to be better young people, to make a contribution, to be lessÂ…violent, and more loving and peaceful, and more serving."

The video not only touches on Dr. King's famous "I Have A Dream" speech, but also depicts him as a teenager, helping his minister father with his community work, visiting sick and elderly people who can't leave their homes.

Actor Jaleel White provides the voice for the cartoon Martin. Mondale asked him what he hopes young people will learn from the video.

"If anything, I hope young people understand that the civil rights struggle is not that far removedÂ… It's just yesterday, and we're still kind of in it," says the actor.

"Children need the message more than ever, and it's not a message solely for African-American kids," says Dexter King, one of Dr. King's sons. "It's a message for all children. His message was not just about civil rights. It was about the right to be your best self as an individual. So that's something we all can use."

A lot of big-name stars help deliver that message. Actors who lent their voices to the project include Whoopi Goldberg, Susan Sarandon, Samuel L. Jackson, and John Travolta.