"deep in my heart, i do believe we shall overcome some day." "deep in my heart, i do believe we shall overcome some day." "there are obstacles, yes but we shall overcome those obstacles. wshall walk in peace. what is the alternative?" "i was arrested trying to use a public library in 1960. my

father, a veteran of world war ii, had to sit behind nazi prisoners of war on american military bases. humiliation." "doctor king was a visionary." "he just was a freedom fighter, an unending freedom fighter." "he was very joyous and warm." "i thought it was bad joke. i wish it had been a bad joke." "some of the drama that's often missed around that season is that he was so hated on april the third and so loved on april the fifth. we love martyrs but not marchers." "he really believed in america so much and so deeply and so thoroughly that he thought that

america could transform itself." "he always believed america could pass the redemption test." "dr. martin luther king. one of the greatest human beings this earth has produced. " as doctor martin luther king, junior stood to receive his nobel peace prize in 1964, he faced an audience comprised of royalty, dignitaries and political leadership from across the globe. and it was doctor king's great, enduring, unshakeable faith in america, in a dream and in humanity itself that lifted up a movement and propelled it

foward, acheiving milestone after milestone. at six in the evening on april 4, 1968, reverend billy kyles, who was hosting doctor martin luther king, junior in memphis, went to the lorraine motel to pick him up for dinner. "i was standing right ... i was right here." the week before, king was in memphis leading a protest in support of striking sanitation workers that descended into chaos. he faced withering

criticism in its aftermath and began to wonder if he could continue to lead a movement of non-violent resistance. king summoned his closest aides to atlantahis home, for an emergency meeting about whether to return to memphis and whether to take their poor people's campaign to washington. "he said, 'i thought maybe i should just quit. maybe, i've done about as much as i can do in 13 years. we're facing a kind of headwind, a resistance." "he said, 'i thought maybe i would fast to the point of death because our movement is splinteredandmaybe at the point of death because we are friends they will come by my bedside and hold hands and talk it out. and then he said as if a breath of fresh air came over him. 'we must turn a minus into a plus and go on by way of memphis on to washington as we planned.

it was like he preached himself out of a depression into an up and then we decided we would meet in memphis on that next week." the group resumed its support for sanitation workers protesting low wages and poor treatment. "dr. king said these garbage workers, these are men and these are women and they too want to take off those overalls one day, bathe and dress up and come to their child's graduation too. they're somebody, he was saying in effect." that evening, king delivered his famous "mountain top" speech to a rally at the mason temple. "mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the lord." "i saw men crying. it was very touching. i mean, the power of that speech, not unlike another powerful speech he gave but just something kind of happened and it was thundering and lightning and the rain was hitting the tin roof. and then it was over and he went out to have dinner with friends. we said, 'man doc, you were really

on tonight' and he said, 'well, the holy spirit hit me' and we laughed about it." they spent most of the next day in dr. king's room discussing strategy about going on to washington to demand an economic bill of rights. "be prepared to engage in civil disobedience, go to jail and force the congress to respond or react to us, force the president to react to us." they were scheduled to go to dinner at reverend kyles' home. "we went over, around five he sent for us. it was about time to go. it was a 5 o'clock engagement and it was about 6 o'clock then and i walked across the yard, the courtyard and he said, 'jesse we're going to reverend kyle's house and you're late.' he was an hour late. i said, 'okay i understand we're late but doc you're consistently late' and we laughed and he said, 'you don't even have on a shirt and tie and we're going to the reverend kyle's house for dinner.' so i said. doc, what's required to eat is an appetite not a tie'

and he said, 'you crazy' and we laughed. then he told ben branch, 'please play my favorite song tonight, precious lord.' he had heard him play it two weeks before in chicago, and ben said, 'i will' and he raised his hands and i said doc, doc, slap. when i said doc, the bullet struck here. we didn't know what happened." "i took a spread from one of the beds and i covered him, from his neck down. he never spoke a word." "i was pretty sure he had been killed because when he was hit and knocked against the wall and his head hit the back of the railing, his foot was up on the door and reverend abernathy was trying to say martin, hold on martin. it's gonna be all right. we're with you. you're not by yourself. you're not alone. we're with you and some of us began to cry. his tie had been severed and

the bullet apparently had hit here in his head and went down and exploded into his chest. a very high powered rifle and bullet. it was clear that dr. king's eyes were rolling back in his head. he was dead." "it was an eerie scene and so i walked away to the room where i was standing next to and called mrs. king. it was a long ten steps to get to that phone and said, 'mrs. king,' she was in bed. 'dr. king has been shot. i think it's in the shoulder. i couldn't say what i'd seen. i couldn't say what i thought i'd seen and i said i think you should get here as quickly as you can and she said i will. and by that time sirens were going and the ambulance came and the press came by the time and i did the first press conference trying to describe who we had seen. it was very difficult to describe and i remember saying i think white america has lost the best friend it ever had."

"doctor martin luther king, the apostle of non-violence in the civil rights movement has been shot to death in memphis, tennessee . police have issued an all-points bulletin for a well-dressed, young, white man seen running from the scene." "america is shocked and saddened tonight by the brutal slaying of doctor martin luther king. i ask every citizen to reject the blind violence that has struck doctor king, who lived by non violence." "police said they found a high powered hunting rifle about a block from the hotel but it was not immediately identified as the murder weapon." "i won't ever forget that afternoon watching it on television then seeing the uproar on the streets in chicago and i was just so, so, so angered. i was enraged."

chicago civil rights leader timuel black, who had brought a young doctor king to the northern city to speak in 1956, was visiting his father in the hospital when he learned of the murder. "we got on the elevator and two policemen were getting on and one said, 'you know, that man, martin luther king has just been shot and killed' and the other policeman laughed at it and said, 'i'm glad he's dead.'" "we caught like a nine o'clock plane and by that time the city was on fire and the nation was on fire by that time." "he was just moving into the prime of his life and he was just killed without any sense of mercy."

we turn, now, to explore the

road that led doctor king to memphis. a road that traveled through birmingham, washington, selma and countless others on its way into history. but, it was montgomery where the journey of the southern

baptist minister became a national movement. "at present, we are in the midst of a protest, the negro citizens of montgomery. ninety percent at least of the regular negro bus passengers are staying off the buses and we plan to continue until something is done." and so it began. reverend martin luther king jr. was an obscure pastor at a baptist church in montgomery, alabama when, on december 1, 1955, rosa parks refused to give up her seat to a white man. king was plucked for his oratory and conviction to lead a boycott of the city's buses and the modern civil rights movement was born. "he was in a crucible of struggle, not up in new york or chicago giving opinions about struggle, he was in the fire." though king was arrested, jailed and his house fire bombed, he did not waver

and he continued to inspire his people with his own philosophy of non-violence. "whad to be trained to be non-violent and we did it out of respect for doctor king that's how deeply you felt toward that man." "using peaceful methods, the negroes of montgomery won their battle and with it they won the admiration of millions of their countrymen, black and white alike." "he believed in america so much and so deeply and so thoroughly that he thought that america could transform itself." king's base was firmly rooted in the south where he helped establish the southern christian leadership conference or s-c-l-c in 1957doctor king served as its president until his death. "he was the first prominent african american who would get national television exposure who was not an athlete or an

entertainer." "this is birmingham. the south's mightiest industrial city as the world knew it this week. these are the front lines of the battle between doctor martin luther king's negro disciples of non-violence and the uniformed forces of birmingham led by commissioner eugene 'bull' connor." "well, birmingham is the symbol of hard core resistance to integration and it has had more unsolved bombings of negro homes and churches than any city in the united states." king led the demonstrations in early april, 1963, in defiance of a court injunction and was arrested. while in jail, a visitor smuggled in a newspaper containing an open letter from eight white alabama clergymen denouncing the protests and king's 'interference' in the state. in response, king penned a long

letter of his own. "freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor. it must be demanded by the oppressed," he wrote. "i am in birmingham because injustice is here. injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." king's lawyers snuck out his manifesto which would come to be known as the "letter from birmingham jail." it galvanized his supporters. after weeks of demonstrations, doctor king's message had moved from the fringes, and was being widely reported in the national media. finally, a resolution was reached. "over the last 72 hours, the business community of birmingham has responded in a constructive and commendable fashion and pledged that substantial steps would begin to meet the justifiable needs of the negro community."

king and others would capitalize on the momentum as they worked to organize the march on washington on august 8, 1963. *singing "we shall overcome. we shall overcome. we shall overcome someday." "the day he gave the speech in washington, the 'i have a dream speech,' from texas across to florida up to maryland we couldn't use a sink or public toilet. my high school senior class couldn't take a picture on the lawn of the state capital. men and women had to relieve their bodies behind cans and trees and alleys and say turn your head when they were

relieving their body. we couldn't buy ice cream at howard johnson's. we couldn't rent a room at a holiday inn. we were a cast and castaway and he dreamed of a day that these walls would come down." "for jobs and freedom was the theme of the march and so that also encouraged many other people to begin to participate." that day would prove pivotal in the course of american history. "the crowd assembled around the reflecting pool before the lincoln memorial, occupying every inch on the lawns and under the trees. and there's a great swell of cheers to welcome martin luther king to the speaker's podium, the man who stands as the symbol of all they are fighting for." "black men, white men, catholic, jewish, we all brothers and i have a dream and

he was speaking from the heart. people began to weep. when i saw him last, he was just so happy the he had been given the opportunity to make that speech." the f-b-i, on the other hand, was alarmed at king's success as an agent for social change. "they were so hostile toward him. they saw him as such a threat." in the fall of 1963, under the leadership of j. edgar hoover, the agency began tapping king's telephone. "after much pressure by hoover the f-b-i was freed up to tap doctor king's home phone and car phone and office phone. he was determined to personally bring doctor king down." the f-b-i hoped to gather evidence that communists were infiltrating the civil rights movement to discredit king.

but when no such evidence was found, it attempted to blackmail him, threatening to release potentially embarassing information. "they went so far as to, when he would stay in a place they would pay hotel maids money to check the sheets to see if there were any semen on the sheets. they would drop the stuff in the press." but doctor king refused to be intimidated and the following year, the movement reached a crowning achievement when federal lawmakers passed the civil rights act ending legal segregation. "we must not approach the observance and enforcement of this law in a vengeful spirit. its purpose is not to divide but to end divisions." in the winter of 1964, king became the youngest ever recipient of the nobel peace prize. "i accept the nobel prize for

peace at a moment when 22 million negroes of the united states are engaged in a creative battle to end the long night of racial injustice." king was determined to keep fighting for what he regarded as the ultimate prize, a dismantling of jim crow laws designed to suppress the black vote. he was invited to the white house upon his return from oslo and asked the newly elected president, lyndon johnson, for his support. "he thanked president johnson for the courtesy as he said but people need the right to vote and johnson in effect said, 'if i could, i would give you the right to vote but i can't grant you the right to vote unilaterally and congress could if they would but they won't." so in january, 1965, king took the struggle to the streets of

selma, alabama, where only two percent of the city's 15,000 eligible black voters were registered. "and when we talk about marching by the thousands, we always prepare ourselves for the follow up. if it is necessary we are willing and must be willing to go to jail by the thousands in alabama." king was again arrested and spent days in jail. "i think as a result of being there and as a result of the creative witness of hundreds and even thousands of negroes in this community, we have been able to bring this whole issue to the attention of the nation." the protests in alabama spread and the student non-violent coordinating committee planned to march from selma to montgomery. on sunday, march 7, hundreds of

state troopers stood at the foot of the edmund pettus bridge determined not to let 600 marchers cross. the men and women protesting that day were met with nightsticks and bullwhips, trampled with horses and doused in tear gas. history would know that day as 'bloody sunday.' president johnson called it an american tragedyand in a dramatic appeal to congress. he pushed for a voting rights bill. "at times, history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom." there were marches protesting the violence through cities across the country. and in selma, dr. king led another march to montgomery but the protesters again ran into a police barricade and they turned back.

finally, on march 21, after president johnson had sent 2,000 federal troops to protect them, thousands of protesters both black and white crossed the edmund pettus bridge and made their way towards the state capital. four days later, they arrived in montgomery, where they were met by thousands more. "they told us we wouldn't get here. all the world today knows that we are here and we are standing before the forces of power in the state of alabama, saying we ain't going to let nobody turn us around." less than five months later, president johnson signed the voting rights act into law, calling it as huge as any

victory that has ever been won on any battlefield. martin luther king junior would go on to seek new victories - in the chicago open housing movement, the poor people's campaign and opposition to the war in vietnam. until the lone shot on april 4, which would be an end to that way of life and spark more change in an already uncertain world.

i just got back from best buy and learned that about 50% of people overpay on their cellphone bill. but then a blue shirt reviewed my cellphone plan and saved me $40 dollars a month! did you say $40 dollars a month? that is a lot of money. come into best buy where a blue shirt will analyze your cellphone bill and help find a plan that could save you money. stop overpaying, it's easy at best buy. the lone shot created stunned

silence in memphis but its reverberations were loud and echoed in cities across the country. shock and grief spilled out of living rooms and on to streets as news of king's murder exploded. "a stiff breeze fanned the flames of more than half a dozen fires set by looters along seventh street." "this is pittsburgh's predominanty negro hill district, from where looting and fire bombing last night spread to several other areas." "the area on fire is west madison street which points directly west from chicago's famed loop district." "good evening. president johnson appealed nationally for calm asking all citizens to deny violence its victory. nevertheless, the murder sent a shockwave of violence rolling through the big cities of

america." in the early hours after martin luther king's assassination, the anger and frustration manifested in violence and destruction. some of the worst devastation struck in the nation's capital. "late today, the president declared a state of emergency and regular army troops rolled into the nation's capital to protect strategic locations from the violence spreading through the city." "the looters were mostly young negro men and women as well as boys down to the age of six or seven. there was little ta of martin luther king, just an occasional bitter remark from someone, usually someone not involved in the looting about the white so and so who shot the civil rights leader." as the day wore on, the brunt of the violence shifted to chicago. "they call it garfield park, long known as a bleak, negro ghetto. tonight, much of it is on fire. the looting, vandalism and burning began in the afternoon as thousands of school children left their classes." "by late afternoon as national guardsmen were being alerted,

the violence reached alarming proportions and these fires were started. the looting went largely unchallenged." "for the first several hours no significant shooting incidents were reported. the word sniper was not heard, now that has changed. several deaths have been rorted incuding two negros police said were killed by sniper fire, in this, the heart of the ghetto." troops would be mobilized from fort hood, texas. "at the height of the burning whole city blocks were set on fire. by daybreak, chicago counted 10 dead, 200 injured and 800 arrested. one of the dead was a 10 month old infant boy burned to death in his fire bombed home. fire damage was staggering, losses were put in the millions. an exact assessment to the damage could not be gotten until the burning stopped and as the day wore on, there was no evidence that would happen."

the violence raged on for two days, chicago's mayor daley imposed a partial curfew and came under fire for issuing what many saw as a shoot to kill order. "well, it's a pretty serious thing to talk about shooting looters but i am hopeful that there will be sterner action taken by both the military and the police department in their handling of the situation today." but the national guardsmen exercised restraint and the presence of federal troops helped restore order to the streets of chicago. yet hundreds were left homeless and the scars of the devastation can still be seen today. meanwhile, other cities across america were begining to see the effects the turmoil had wrought "washington, chicago, detroit, boston, new york - these are just a few of the cities in which the negro anguish over doctor king's murder, presumably by a white man,

expressed itself in violent destruction. detroit, the scene of last summer's worst rioting, tonight is under a curfew, with some 3,000 national guardsmen on duty to enforce it." in memphis, the scene of the crime, the curfew there had largely cleared the streets but the outrage was palpable. "scattered violence broke out in some sections of the city, police cars stoned in negro areas, fires attributed to molotov cocktails. along historic beale street there was scattered looting. four thousand tennessee national guard troops fanned out through the city with armored personnel carriers, weapons opened at the breach and ready to load. memphis police made more than 90 arrests." back at the white house on april 5, president johnson temporarily pushed aside his plans to pursue a new vietnam peace effort to deal with the crisis. "there's a sad president in there tonight. he's walking

around in his shirt sleeves, his collar undone, disappointed that his best has not been good enough to prevent what is happpening to washington. his calling in the army late today climaxed seven hours of conferences, proclamations, orders and pleas." "the day began with 21 civil rights leaders summoned to the white house. what can and should be done was the question. most of those asked were black. mr. johnson and those conferring interrupted their session to attend memorial services for the reverend doctor king at national cathedral. besides the president, the supreme court, the cabinet and several thousand others jammed the historic church. the largest crowd in its history, larger even than that for john kennedy at the cathedral. it was the saddest day of the johnson presidency since that november friday in 1963 when he returned to washington from dallas." there was also a memorial service for king in memphis that day and hundreds showed up at the funeral home to pay their respects. king's body was later flown to atlanta, where, on april 9, following a private service at

the ebenezer baptist church, more than 300,000 people joined a three-mile procession to morehouse college, king's alma mater and millions more mourned the loss of the man who had brought everlasting changes to the conditions and attitudes endured by black americans. even as the raw emotions raged american streets, the hunt for justice began. we continue our look at the life and death of martin luther king as we recall the search for his killer that crossed borders and over an ocean. "the man who called himself raymond george snade was brought from london airport here to cannon row police station." on june 8, 1968, british police ended a two month international manhunt for james earl ray and started the process of returning the most-wanted murder

suspect back to the u.s. to stand trial. ray had escaped from a missouri prison. one of many where he spent time over the years for armed robbery and mail fraud the year before. at about three o'clock in the afternoon on april 4, 1968, he checked into this memphis rooming house with a view of the lorraine motel. less than four hours later, after he shot and killed martin luther king on the motel's second floor balcony, ray fled town but not before dumping a rifle nearby. "i know i was headed toward new orleans when i had the radio, i just keep the radio on. i think ...i didn't have too strong feelings about the shooting but i think 15 or 20 minutes later they mentioned the mustang, white, and then instead of going towards new orleans and making me phone calls i just

turned left and went towards alabama." ray later went north, to canada, where he hid out for more than a month. after being named a suspect in king's murder in may, ray obtained a false passport under the name of raymond george sneyd, a toronto policeman and flew to the u-k. he was arrested at london's heathrow airport while trying to leave the country, headed for rhodesia. "and they extradited me for first degree murder, doing all the shooting and everything." ray confessed to the crime on march 10, 1969. "james earl ray on his forty first birthday, admitted in a memphis courtroom here that he killed martin luther king. his admission was part of an agreement between him and the state of tennessee to avoid a possible death sentence. by pleading guilty, he was to

receive a 99 year jail term. and so, he pleaded guilty but not without keeping alive the theory of a conspiracy." "we had interviewed all of the witnesses who had been reported as making statements favorable to ray, none of which came out as originally reported. there wasn't a single witness we could have offered in contradiction to the state's case." but three daysfter sentencing, ray recanted and hired a new lawyer. "james earl ray's new attorney is a professional segregationist and anti-semite named j.b. stoner from savannah, georgia. mr. stoner came to pay a call on his new client this morning at thetennessee state prison in nashville." "mr ray said it was all right for me to tell you that he is not guilty and that he was pressured into a plea of guilty when he wasn't guilty." "who's taking care of your fee for this mr. stoner?" "no comment."

"did he say who pressured him into a plea?" "no comment on that either." ray testified before the house select committee on assassinations but it concluded he was the killer and thereas no conspiracy. ray would spend the rest of his life trying to withdraw his guilty plea, without success, until his death in 1998. "you cannot let one bullet kill

a whole movement. i remember reverend lowery saying that we must go on to washington and reverend abernathy should i say, we must go to washington and we cannot let that bullet stop the poor people's campaign. we cannot stop that bullet from stopping us from finding a job at any company for every american, for a multi-racial society, for our commitment to non-violence as a discipline. if we stop then martin would be disappointed. we can't stop now." king's death in fact galvanized many who were determined to carry on his dream. "i do not believe that the assassination of doctor king ended the civil rights movement. in fact, in many instances, i know people who weren't involved and became involved because of the assassination of doctor king." on may 12, 1968, hundreds of people, including coretta scott king, made their way to washington to demand an economic bill of rights.

over the next few weeks, several caravans of people joined them and on may 21, thousands set up a makeshift camp called resurrection city. s-c-l-c leaders led marches on capitol hill in an attempt to meet with members of congress. but they made little headway. "we met the resentment of the white house and the capitol in the sense that we got your leader. they knew that we were wounded." on june 20, police fired tear gas into the city. four days later, they arrived to clear it and arrested many of those inside. resurrection city was demolished. still, the s-c-l-c, under the leadership of ralph abernathy continued to make strides as more and more african americans would register to vote and be elected to office. "when the votes were all in and counted the six black

candidates had won. it was a bitter defeat for many whites, but sweet victory for the green county negros." over time, there would be new causes. "the police in our community occupy our area, our community as a foreign troop occupies a territory and the police are there in our community not to promote our welfare or for our security and our safety but they're there to contain us, to brutalize us and to murder us because they have their orders to do so." "the whole black nation has to be put together as a black army and we are gonna walk on this nation. we are gonna walk on this racist power structure." "the character of the civil rights movement began to change after doctor king was assassinated. prior to '68, the civil rights movement was defined by public accommodation,oting rights in the south. the northern civil

rights movement was really shaped by the whole 'black is beautiful' 'black power' movement." today, king's vision continues to adapt to the changing times. "when you think about situations with black lives matter, the millennials, who are becoming more active. the ability of people to organize which is much easier now then it was because of social media and i think that there's going to be some changes made. so, when people think well, whatever doctor king was hoping to accomplish is not going to happen i say, 'no i don't believe that at all.'" "the civil rights movement has been such a continuum, and still is." been such a continuum, and still is." the unrelenting commitment, the

moral certitutde, the unwavering belief and the ultimate sacrifice for a better future - these are some of the hallmarks that echo through time just part of the legacy king leaves behind which begins and ends with his faith. "freedom, peace, equality, justice - that's the legacy that those of us who want to carry it forward, carry that as

goals." just days after king's death, supporters began a campaign to establish a federal holiday in his honor. it took 15 years, but on october 19, 1983, they succeeded. "the senate today made it final. phil jones reports that slain civil rights leader martin luther king junior is now the only american besides george washington to have a federal holiday to mark his birth." "the politicians clearly sensed the symbolism of the day. the vice president came to preside. on the senate floor, mrs. king watched from the gallery as the senate voted overwhelmingly, 78 to 22, declaring the third monday in january a holiday for the slain civil rights leader. it will start in 1986." "i'm sorry it has taken 15

years to achieve this historic occasion." "if martin luther king junior were here with us today and we could sing again that old song, we could sing, we have overcome today." "the passage of this bill with strong bipartisan support, has brought us much closer to the realization of martin luther king junior's dream." two weeks later, president ronald reagan signed the bill into law. "the traces of bigotry still mar america, so each year on martin luther king day, let us not only recall doctor king but re-dedicate ourselves to the commandments he believed in and sought to live every day." the first martin luther king day observed in his hometown of atlanta was celebrated with a religious service and a parade. in this city, where doctor martin luther king was born, was resisted and is buried, they marched and paraded, wept

and sang, for the dream that was and the dream that is. the first official united states holiday ever for a black person. a prophet, now with much honor in his own country hated and killed in his own time. " "this is the greatest day i have witnessed as a person, in my life." "his life, first of all, gives me a better sense of worth, a better sense of feeling proud, for myself and my people, for the country that i live in." "his movement is all of us. it was a benning." "the legacy of martin luther king junior is one of bringing people together. he appealed to the very best in all of us. he had the ability and the capacity to lead and he was an unbelievable leader." "sometimes i hear people, especially young people, saying

nothing has changed. i feel like saying come and walk in my shoes. when doctor king left us, there were so many unmet needs but many of those needs have been met." "you will look around and see thatlad day when all of god's children will be able to cry out free at last! free at last! free at last! thank god almighty. we are free at last." "to go from fighting for the right to vote to go from that bloody and legal confrontation in '65 to the white house in '08, 43 years, is quite a journey." "and that's why the night that president obama was declared the winner, i began to weep. i wept tears of pain and joy.

it all comes out of our struggle to transform the world from the platform of america." "doctor king laid the foundation for and those who worked with him, they laid the foundation for an america that's still striving but is much better today than it was." "the ability to bring people together was just tremendous. things african americans hadn't done since slavery actually." "he saw that good people fight to change structures, good people fight for the right to vote, good people fight for economic justice, good people fight for no more racial exploitation and gender equality, good people fight for human rights for all human beings." "we feel a responsibility that

was placed on us by the behavior as well as the articulation of doctor martin luther king, one of the greatest human beings this earth has produced."

that is our look at martin luther king and his legacy. thanks for watching. i'm bill kurtis. "he was in the crucible of struggle not up in new york or chicago giving opinions about the struggle. he was in the fire." "if it is necessary, we are willing and must be willing to go to jail by the thousands in alabama." "freedom. peace. equality. justice. that's the legacy that those of us who are going to carry forward, carry that as gold." "at times, history and fate meet to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom." "deep in my heart, i do

freedom." "deep in my heart, i do believe, we shall overcome, we shall overcome, someday." someday." you won't see these folks they have businesses to run. they have passions to pursue. how do they avoid trips to the post office? stamps.com mail letters, ship packages, all the services of the post office right on your computer. get a 4 week trial, plus $100 in extras including postage and a digital scale. go to stamps.com/tv and never go to the post office again.

>> i'm natasha brown. next on "eyewitness news" it could become a bit slick out there. parts of the area getting a taste of wintry weather tonight. kate. >> that's right, natasha. this storm no more than a nuisance but it does mean some slick spots as some freezing drizzle and light snow moves through the area during the next couple hours. i'll break down all the timing and when it finally moves out. >> and also a four legged crime fighter is hanging up

>> live from the cbs broadcast center in philadelphia, this is cbs3 "eyewitness news." >> mix of wintry sweater targeting parts of the area tonight and it could get slick some inn spots. you can see it on storm scan3. the areas of white and pin. that's the snow and freezing rain that is moving in now from the west. parts of the area are under a winter weather advisory right now. good evening everyone, i'm natasha brown. thanks for joining us. let's get right over to meteorologist kate bilo she's tracking this winter weather tonight. kate. >> natasha, this some hasn't done much across the area. it prudit produced steadier sno. but now that the sun is going down and the precipitation is still moving through the sun has gone down i should say. now we're seeing temperatures in some spots drop below the freezing mark