high, everybody who is ready to march. fraser hand high. raise it high. are you ready to march? are you ready to march? if you are ready to march, i want you to raise both of your hands up. now, i want you to stand up on your feet and keep your hands high. step toem together and gather. everybody march. ♪ >> ♪ everybody march ♪ rybody march announcer: so many were tricked into helping to create the appearance of popular support for a conspiracy that true it's true objective behind slogans of

humanitarian goals. handful made freedom rides. and aren picketed tested. while still others boycotted buses. and then, more marched and demonstrated. cuba when the leaders of the humanistic revolution marched with arms locked in camaraderie, so it is in the united states where the leaders of the freedom movement march with arms locked in brotherhood. , when thein cuba comrades march arm-in-arm, so it is in the united states where the brothers march to the

overcome." we shall >> ♪ we shall overcome we shall overcome we shall overcome ♪ >> in 1960 five, martin luther king explained the purposes of the marches and demonstrations as follows -- >> the goal is to dramatize the injustice and bring about change through methods of nonviolence. of experience indicate negroes can achieve this goal 14 things occur. nonviolence -- nonviolent demonstrations, going into the streets to exercise rights. resist bycists

unleashing violence against them. third, americans of conscience in the name of decency demand federal intervention and legislation. fourth, the administration under and initiates measures of immediate intervention and remedial legislation. >> who wants to march with us? i did not hear from everybody. are you ready to march? crowd: yes! announcer: as martin luther king said, demonstrators staged a staged a huge march on washington, d.c., to demonstrate and across the country as martin luther king said, violence was unleashed. then, accordingly, the federal government intervened in a vicious legislative step on the

road to tyranny was enacted in the form of the civil rights bill of 1964. >> their cause must be our cause, too. negroes,t is not just but really it is all of us who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice. and we shall overcome. ♪ >> now, we mean business. are you ready to march with us? announcer: as martin luther king said, the demonstrators staged a huge march from alabama to dramatize their demands.

staged demonstrations across the country and as martin luther king had said, violence .as unleashed against them then, accordingly, the federal government intervened and still another vicious legislative step toward tyranny was enacted in the form of the voting rights bill of 1965. >> and these enemies, too, poverty, disease, and ignorance, we shall overcome. ♪ >> ♪ truth shall make us free ♪ th shall make us free >> i broke away when it became clear to me what the communists were really up to. to use the negro people of this

country as cannon fodder and a violent and luddy revolution aimed at establishing an american-soviet dictatorship. ♪ >> ♪ give me that old freedom spirit ♪ >> it was to be a communist revolution. but the great majority of the american people would not be allowed to realize that until it had already happened. if all of it goes according to the come in's blueprint, americans will believe that the has somethingnds -- the chaos and violence has something to do with civil rights. ♪ >> make no mistake about it,

what is happening in the united states right now under the banner of civil rights is exactly what happened in china, and cuba, in algeria, and in many other places around the world. ♪ announcer: the goal of the international communist conspiracy is world domination. they have thus far been highly successful in accomplishing this step-by-step objectives for reaching that goal. in the united states, the communist plans call for two revolutions at once. a revolution of a supposedly oppressed proletariat or working class against the capitalistic system that is supposed to breed wage slavery, unemployment, poverty, crisis, and war. the second revolution is a root

-- revolt of the supposedly poor negroes against the supposedly lynching, social ostracism and exploitation of the white man. currently, what the communists called their negro revolutionary movement now masquerading behind the humanitarian banners of contributingis tremendous momentum to the communist plans to take over the united states. divide the people. get them fighting among themselves rather than their common enemy. create the appearance of popular support. the useorable press and of terror, intimidation, and the creation of murders to make the world believe the revolution is a popular one, particularly among those being liberated. neutralize the opposition. ton abstraction lists

because become too irritating label them as fascist, anti-somatic, extremist, racist, controversial. violence.ate mob get the mobs into the street. march and demonstrate. as the demonstrations grown numbering and intensity they will acquire political correct tour -- character with the forces of law and order. since mass action, nathan and whatrection and civil war, is the communist strategy? create the semblance of revolution. [applause] copad not this racist killed a young boy, had he not killed a boy, the boy very well might have died in south vietnam in the name of freedom.

in the name of freedom. [applause] >> i was also asked to tell you not to get the passions so high. not to get to worked up. however, i think many of us are going to have to choose where we are going to die at. where we are going to die at. [applause] going to have to decide whether we are going to die on the streets of the united states or in south vietnam. i would choose the united states myself. i would choose the united states. [applause] >> havana, cuba. territories of the americas. radio-free invite you to the free voice of the south.

stay with us for music, news, lewis.mentary by robert -- robert f williams. >> robert f williams, a fugitive wanted by the justice department broadcast weekly revolutionary messages beamed into the united states from cuba. we shall take the source of freedom itself into the streets of america and we shall have the oft great stronghold freedom. for our people. announcer: in a newsletter published in cuba and sent into the united states through canada, the revolutionist williams tells the negroes of this nation, we must he willing to suffer jail. we must be willing to suffered death. we must be willing to kill for freedom.

>> the gestapo policemen are on every street corner. it is just like mississippi. i predict things are going to grow worse. in fact, i think policeman are going to be dead before this situation is over. announcer: during the summers of 1964 and 1965, the demonstrations became riots. finally, and aiding in the worst race riot in this nation's history in the watts district of los angeles. across the united states, law enforcement officers were dead and negroes did die in the streets and the situation was far from over. after the writing broke out in watts, a new newspaper started publication. the voice of all of the oppressed and exploited, calling for the workers of the world to

unite, this new voice of the people declared that all of the people of the united states who oppose u.s. imperialism wish to thank the communist party of china and the chinese people for their pledge of support for the people of los angeles in their struggle against u.s. imperialism. >> in keeping with communist principles and expectations, the atmosphere of hatred generated in the watts riots resulted in 32 martyrs for the cause of liberation. >> in their memory, wiest read -- we pledge to this story u.s. imperialism. still again in 1965, we hear a negro people as a nation in the black belt of the south. there be any misunderstanding, nobel peace prize winner martin luther king lenined the example of

peace prize winners and and tired oft "imc people saying this movement has been infiltrated by communist and communist sympathizers, there are as many communist in this freedom movement as there are eskimos in florida." ♪ announcer: in the past hour, we have offered only a brief survey of the material available to support the charge that the civil rights movement as we know it today is simply part of a worldwide movement organized and directed by communist to an slave all of mankind.

enslave all of mankind. ♪ announcer: there are hundreds of additional witnesses and thousands of additional facts to testify to the communist involvement in the american civil rights movement. and the limitations of time prevent their inclusion here. ♪ announcer: we urge you to continue your studies of these unpleasant truths and gain a more complete understanding of the conspirator's plans to subjugate the united states. "reading "it is very simple: the

true story of civil rights" and that the civil rights pamphlets available from one of the american opinion libraries across the nation. we also urge you to resolve first that you will not fall victim to becoming a spot to set race against race, american , and secondican that you will now join with other patriots in a positive program and concerted action to save for our children and their children this once-glorious civilizationumane that we ourselves and inherited. ♪

announcer: you are watching american history tv, 48 hours of programming every weekend on c-span3. forow us on twitter information on our schedule and to keep up with the latest history news. fromdo think you can learn failure. i think that if the next president wants to aspire to be like somebody, they probably want to aspire to be washington or lincoln. iq cannot re-create the country and you cannot have a civil war so what you do next? you aspire to be james monroe? i don't know. but you can aspire not to be james buchanan. >> historian robert strauss talks about james buchanan's presidency in his latest book "worst president ever: james buchanan." >> i think the differentiation of this president and that president, washington, lincoln,

fdr, always have to be in the survey sister he and's take. they were decisive men. you cannot climb to the top of the ladder and not be decisive. james paul came to james cannon for being a waffler as secretary of state. he always went back and forth on decisions. announcer: sunday night at 8:00 ." . eastern on c-span's "q&a >> next on american history tv, we hear from three medal of honor recipients from the vietnam war and the war in afghanistan. the medal of honor ac highest honor for valor given for combat. hosted by the americans veteran center. get underht, let's way. another panel for our conference. this is an understatement.

we moderate this panel on the moderate -- to moderate this panel on the medal of honor, i would like to introduce the chief officer of the medal of honor foundation. [applause] >> thank you. it is a pleasure to be with you this morning. we thank you. we thank you for the decision you have made at a very young age to serve our great country in uniform. it is an important decision. it is a critical decision. it is a decision that will probably be one of the most important you will ever make in your life and we need you. we not only need you for the skills that you bring, but for the leadership that is inside of you. have plenty ofys infantrymen and pilots and

public affairs officers like i have -- wewill never will never have a glut of leadership. we will always take that. so thank you for what you're doing. in the essence of time, i will introduce our medal of honor recipients but i will not go into a lot of detail about what they did. you can see their stories online at the medal of honor.com website and i encourage you to check that out. but i will say one thing about all gentlemen sitting before you. that they no doubt felt fear in combat. courage.chose themwe absolutely needed to do that. and they saved the lives of hundreds of american soldiers. the medal ofabout ho