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fairground in front of you, don't forget to say fore and cheers? have an excellent weekend good night. every generation of americans has passed something forward to the next generation about how to move this country forward. and the lesson of american history is it gets better generation to generation. most mondays this year, protesters have gathered at the state house in north carolina to demand changes from the legislature on issues like health care and voting rights. they're using some of the tools that civil rights and vote rights protesters in the 1960s
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used. on march 7, 1965, 25-year-old john lewis led the march f voting rights in selma, alabama, a march in which he was brutally beaten by police and arrested. 31 years later, he was sworn in as the congressman representing the georgia's fifth district where he continued the crusade the fulfillment of martin luther king jr.'s dream. the executive director of the dream defenders, an organization dedicated to the pursuit of martin luther king jr.'s dream. here they are talking about what we've learned from generation to generation. >> john lewis, member of the
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state house of representatives. i was a chairman of the student nonviolent coordinating committee, better known as sncc. >> my name is phillip agnew, i serve as director of the dream defenders in florida. we started with a march, the way stifl rights leaders marched from selma to montgomery. >> these stirring images of student protesters outside of the sanford police department. it was an act of civil disobedience that forced the department to temporarily shut its doors. ♪ mama ma'am tell me why >> it was after that, we wanted to start something that would not only fight back against what we saw as attacks on our community, attacks on us, but also be able to build an
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infrastructure so we could fight back against people in the legislature that represent us and reflect our values. >> bloody sunday, turned the tide in the civil rights movement. >> john lewis was a leader in that march. >> hundreds of thousands of negro citizens of alabama, but particularly here are denied the right to vote. >> you're ordered to disbers, go home or go to your church. this march will not continue. >> we were prepared to put our bodies on the line to change america, but we were prepared to do what i call get in the way, to get in trouble, good trouble, necessary trouble. >> a group known as the dream dependers have been staging a
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dramatic sit-in at the florida state capital in tallahassee. >> for 31 days and 30 nights, the dream dependers occupied the state capital of florida. we had a list of substantive demands. they were a repeal of stand your ground. we wanted to dismantle the school to prison pipelines and also wanted to address racial profiling. we have a republican legislature that's not going to budge on much. we have a lot of work to do. that's the lesson from 391 days in the capital. >> if it hadn't been for selma in the march for bloody sunday, there probably wouldn't be a jimmy carter as president or a bill clinton or barack obama.
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selma brought about a rev nugs of nonviolence. >> someone says i want to break away from the norm, we've got to be comfortable with being uncomfortable. >> and find a way to get into good trouble, necessary trouble. speak up, speak out. if you see something that's not right, not fair, not just, do something about it. >> a little bit of insanity to believe that we can be the ones who change the course of history. >> it's made up of young people, the disability community. >> the dreamers, fighting
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deportation, fighting separating their families. lgbt folks, coming out of the shadows. >> we're one people, one house. >> the young people, the poor, people rel lated to the shadows to rise up and do the work that needs to be done. of. >> we're going to create one america. we're going to redeem the soul of america. it's going to happen. it may not happen in on my watch or during my lifetime, but it will happen and people should not be afraid of the future. grace lee boggs is an asian american philosopher and social activist who has seen america change over nine decades. and rosa clemente is a young activist. both have worked as grassroots
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organizers, trying to improve their communities. >> i'm grace lee boggs. i'm a very old woman. >> writer, philosopher, activist, revolutionary. >> i was born in the second decade of the 20th century and i'm still around in the second decade of the 21st century. >> she's the subject of "american revolutionary" the evolution of grace lee boggs. >> how did you become a philosopher? >> i just go back 70 years. >> i wait a minute to detroit in new york of june of 1953. it was a city of 2 million. . in detroit, grace became involved in the black power movement and met her husband james boggs who was herself a
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revolutionary thinker. and she was asian american. >> i cut my hair to see how straight it was. and they would ask about my family and what did my family think of my living in a black neighborhood. i would say i'm grown. i decide where i live. >> my name is rosa clemente. i'm an afro-latin that hip-hop activist from the south bronx in new york. i was the green party vice presidential nominee along with cynthia mckinney. i really became an act ris at the state university of new york at albany. >> i was organizing a radical gro group.
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it really started with me taking classes from afternoon can american classes and then the civil rights movement. >> everyone wanted to organize and do something and change the country. there's a huge radical conscious in the black community. so it was fun. >> not guilty of the crime of assault of force. >> one specific moment for mer was a turning point and that was the rodney king verdict. >> the officers were found not guilty on every count except the one where no decision was reached. >> when i woke up to see l.a. rebelled and burning because of the four officers who beat rodney king was exonerated was a huge turning point. >> policemen accused of beating rodney king have stunned this nation. >> let's try and work it out.
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>> i had read much about rebel john i don't knows and the responses of young people against police brutality for a long time. but it was the rodney king verdict that made it real. it made sense to understand why people were rebelled. >> i knew that we would always have to be organizing. >> people don't always follow the same way. in a crisis, some people don't even know there's a crisis. some people are immobilized and some people want to do something. i received an e-mail from someone who lived in arizona and he said look, i can do this.
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i can solve local problems. >> activism is from the minute you wake up until you go to bed. >> the idea that you can do for yourself is a very american idea. >> activism can happen with 5,000 people or it can happen when you're walking home and you see the police putting three black kids against the wall. are you going to keep walking home? or are you going to stand there and watch. are you going to at least be a witness to what's happening? >> i think we're in the middle of the second american revolution that's going to be as much of a beacon to the world as the first. >> joining me now, joy reid. joy, fascinating to hear the way
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find your way to get in good trouble, necessary trouble. he was actually king's generation. part of the good double that john lewis got in was with the southern leadership conference because they were not in agreement. you had these young guys in their 20s saying we want to do direct action. we want to be more radical than the older, more genteel civil rights era of king, who were more about negotiation, demonstration and negotiation was really where the king movement was. but you had the sncc guys saying we want direct action and confrontation. so you had that dichotomy. then you go to rosa clemente who was now the generation x, who grew up around the rodney king era and we're looking at a different sort of version of confrontation, people who look at riot.
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then you get to phillip agnew who went back to the old model, sit-ins, parked by the trayvon martin situation. >> in her life, there hadn't been a thing to her that said it's not over. >> generation x, rodney king, some consider them to be mindless riots. but for a lot of people who confronted issues with policing for many, many years, grown up afraid of the police, but they couldn't proou it. the rodney king beating, that videotape of proof, things they had been saying, their parents had been saying, their grandparents had been saying about police brutality, suddenly
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it eke like look, this is proof of it. the man who beat rodney king were then not brought to what those people consider to be justice, african-americans said this is what justice would look like. when it didn't happen, the kind of emotional eruption was something that was inevitable in the country and it was an escape valve for a lot of that emotion for a lot of people. they were retried then were convicted and did go to prison. videotape created that turning point. stay with us, we're going to be back with more. coming up, next, actor and activist america ferrera, and delores puerta who fought for farm workers' rights. and later, what basketball player jason collins learned from one of his idols, martina naval low va.
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labor leader and civil rights activist caesar chavez and that was rosario dawson playing delores huerta. >> one of america's great labor and civil rights icons. >> at 84 years old, she still heads up 57b organization by her name pop i'm america ferreira, i'm an actress, but also i'm involved in issues that matter to me. one that is voter registration. >> participating and getting
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involved with issues that matter to me. started in college. >> i worked with this great organizer. and he showed us pictures of that what they had been. >> participated in a program that was called peace games. >> i was elected with the student council. >> i volunteered if for extra credit in one of my classes. but it was one of the most defining experiences of my college career. >> that's what i want to do. i wanted to do something about the inequities. >> my eyes were opened to a whole world that i really knew so little about. and they were all issues i cared about and they felt pressing and they needed attention and a life well spent would be trying to address the issues of our time, not sort of indulging my passion
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for acting, which felt frivolous in comparison. >> people who had the power to change things, it's just very, i guess, it's almost -- it makes you feel so great to know that you can do this. that you can teach people how to come together. >> as a first generation american, i am raising my voice to join the millions of americans demanding a vote on comprehensive immigration reform. >> i'm a fourth generation american. hi great grandfather was in the civil war. but my children and grandchildren face discrimination because they're merks can-american. >> it's amazing we haven't got an vote on the immigration bill. >> give a path to citizenship for all immigrants has always been the policy of the united states of america.
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>> every immigration group received citizenship at one point or another. >> the face of this country is changing. it's not a matter of in but when d.c. awakens so that. >> people don't understand why people come here from other countries because they don't have the job opportunities that we have here. >> yes, we can! yes, we can! >> people confuse yes we can with the farm workers. in fact, i initiated that slogan. >> when i told her i had stolen her slogan, knowing her i'm pleased that she let me off easy. because delores does not play.
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>> the' czar chavez movement is so important to bring to the forefront right now, not only so we don't forget what's come before and what is possible, but also so we know today what we've accomplished. >> this whole movement has unified the latino community. >> it is really important that we remember our history and remember what we're capable of and what's possible, and hopefully we've given some people some context for the yes, we can slogan. >> we reach out to people and remind them that, you know, unless a native americans,
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people came from somewhere and understand that we're going to just keep organizing. the only way you lose is if you quit. we just got to keep organizing, organizing and organizing. >> coming up next, basketball player jason collins. and martina navratilova. . >> i remember thinking i can't be silent ups is a global company, but most of our employees live in the same communities that we serve. people here know that our operations have an impact locally. we're using more natural gas vehicles than ever before. the trucks are reliable, that's good for business. but they also reduce emissions, and that's good for everyone. it makes me feel very good about the future of our company. ♪
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. in 1978, harvey milk became the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in california when he won a seat on the san francisco board of supervisors. that year he said, if a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet also destroy every closet door in the country. harvey milk was assassinated a short time later in his first year in office. that same year, martina navratilova won her first major singles title at wimbledon, and three years later, she became the first openly gay professional athlete. she was a role model for 35-year-old jason collins who last year became the first openly gay player in the nba.
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>> my name is jason collins and i just finished my 13th year in the nba. >> american culture changed on monday. i'm a 34-year-old nba center. i'm black and i'm gay. >> last year, i became the first active openly gay professional athlete in the nba. >> and now for the first time ever, there's an openly gay athlete in one of the four major pro sports leagues. >> looking at it, there's always signs, i think, when someone does make that announcement. you were like okay, i can see it. those in my private life, they knew. >> i'm martina navratilova. i was born in czechoslovakia. after i became an american citizen, that july of '81, i was finally able to come out. i was the first professional athlete came out while i was still active. the women's locker room, women's
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tour, we all knew who was straight, who was gay. nobody cared. i played doubles with my very good friend. she's straight, i'm gay. we just wanted to play doubles together. with chris, we were such good friends. supported me in private but also supported me in public before it was popular to do so. >> this kind of acceptance is happening quicker than any of us might have thought. >> i had a chance to talk to jason collins. i told him i couldn't be prouder, that this is just one more step in this ongoing recognition that we treat everybody fairly. >> before i came out, i was always worried about would today be the day that someone else figures it out that i'm gay. >> once it was out, here it is. and i would come out to play a match and everybody was clapping, you know, for my opponent. and i would come out and some
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people didn't clap. some people were even jeering or whistling or booing. so it was difficult. >> so that's kind of another reason why i did what i did. to make it easier for the person and the people, young men and women who will come after me. >> i heard from some friends who would sit in the stands what the comments were, and they were not pret pretty. came out about 30 years too early. >> i'm just trying to live my life in the most authentic and honest way i can. sometimes when people ask me what can i do to help my child or my friend? it's just, you know, tell them you love them. tell them nothing's changed in our relationship. >> i knew i could still play. i could still make a living. it's not a job you can get fired from. either you're good enough to play or not. i kind of had that freedom to be
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myself and not have to pretend or lie or be kwai pept. >> the ruling striking down the law passed by congress in 1996. the defense of marriage act known as doma. >> doma is dead! >> i lived three miles from the serpian court and here i was a professional athlete playing for the hometown team and i was kwai pept and the -- quiet. and these cases had aan effect n my life and i was quiet. it was frustrated. i reached a point in my private life where my family and friends knew and loved and supported me. i wanted to be the one that controlled my story. >> the weight of the moment, nearly too much to handle. >> for mike to kiss his
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boyfriend, you know, when that moment happened. you know, that's a great moment for him to share with his loved ones. if someone else has an issue. that's on them. i was glad it was captured on television. >> one day it won't matter at all. that's the day i'm waiting for. >> when they see you're proud of who you are, thaw r they're going to be like okay. there's a respect factor. when you see someone who's proud of who they are, you respect that. >> until that day comes, we'll keep fighting. but every time a new person comes out, it's less of a big deal. >> tennis great navratilova popped the question between the men's semifinal. she proposed to her long-time girm friend at a big stadium at arthur ashe stadium. >> i wasn't thinking i would be an activist. but by virtue of being out, i became one. >> imagine hiding your race and not feeling proud about
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something contributes to make you who you are. race doesn't define who you are. just like my sexual orientation doesn't define. but it's a part of me. and it's a big part of me. >> i've always spoken out for the underdog, and we in the gay community are underdogs. still are. because we don't have equal rights. so i have a platform that i can use, that i have used. and, you know, it's who i am. >> i remember what it's like to be silent. and that's not going to be me anymore. if there's an opportunity for me to speak up and speak out for equal rights, we're talking about equality here. it's a no-branner. >> i never made any excuses or thinking that i should apologize for who i am. my mom used to say to me, why do you hold the flag? i say well, is there anybody behind me? but now they're behind me.
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>> what issues define your generation? on facebook, jack wrote, my generation was perhaps the last generation to see a bright future for all of us. we saw the civil rights act, the voting rights act, the protests against the war in vietnam. and its end. medicare to remove the curse of poverty in old age, coming from failing health. social security was sound, roe versus wade, the first earth day. and men land on the moon. >> colin said, dogma tichl, moral religious and political is dividing our world and creating needless pains. the new morality should be respect for humanity and not followership. on twitter jay mitch 23 wrote, federal and private student loan debt, marijuana, net neutrality. and on msnbc.com, jay said, concern for environment versus mega corporations and profit
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>> where were you? when was it? and what happened? >> i was in afghanistan. it was november 21 of 2010. it was my first combat report over there. >> kyle carpenter shouldn't be alive. he was severely wounded while serving in afghanistan. >> we were on top of a roof. an attack was started and grenades were thrown and landed on top of the roof with us. i don't remember anything. i went unconscious in the blood loss. >> colonel jack jacobs was almost killed in vietnam in 1968 under intense enemy fire. he rescued 14 men that day, earning a medal of honor. >> i had a head wound. just felt like i wanted to lie down. and after a while, i did lie down and i couldn't get up again. was it like that for you? >> well, i couldn't really hear or see anything just because my vision and my ruptured eardrums.
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but, you know, through those few short seconds, i got more and more tired and towards the end of it, after i had my final few thoughts and i kind of come to terms that i wasn't making it through this, yeah, i was just really tired. i just wanted to go to sleep. yeah. >> yeah, i think you come to grips with the situation after a while. >> the president of the united states in the name of the congress takes pleasure in presenting the medal of honor to lance corporal william kyle carpenter, united states marine corps. >> so how did you discover you were going to get the award. who called you? >> the president of the united states, president obama. >> barack obama. >> fine, sir, how are you? >> we wanted to award you the medal of honor for your courageous actions in afghanistan. >> i got a call three weeks
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before the ceremony from some colonel who was the head of the army award branch. he said congratulations you're going to receive the medal of honor. >> at the risk of his life -- >> do you know who jimmy doolittle was? >> yes, sir. >> led the american raid on tokyo in 1942. he put his army around me, took me to the corner of the room, he said young man, you're no longer jack jacobs. he said you're jack jacobs, medal of honor recipient, and you better behave accordingly, do you understand what i'm saying? >> it definitely weighs on me knowing the responsibility that i'm going to have and i'm not, i guess, timid or scared in any way. i am excited for the opportunity to represent the military and this nation. but it's definitely, i guess, a
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double-edge sword. >> almost everything, even if it's good. we try to help each other out, because we do know that we don't wear the award for ourselves. we wear it for all those people who can't. who served and sacrificed. who performed valiantly and nobody saw them, but somebody saw them but they died. you have a real heavy burden not just because you're a medal of honor recipient, but there's so few. you're relatively young and so the burden is going to fall on you. and the other guys of your age to carry on talking about service and sacrifice and how do we represent all those kids who didn't come home. >> yes, sir. coming up next, advice from the new generation of activists from one who risked his life.
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almost 50 years later, william barber continues the struggle for voting rights in his home state of north carolina. >> whoo! ♪ we've got something to say i say hey, hey ♪ ♪ we ain't going away >> reverend dr. william j. barber ii, and i'm president of the naacp and the convener of the moral monday movement. i was born two days after the march on washington, august 30, 1963. >> we hope to send into mississippi the summer upwards of 1,000 teacher, ministers, lawyers and students from all around the country who will
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engage in what we're calling freedom schools. >> in the summer of '64, i was sort of overseeing the summer project. we didn't call it freedom of summer. the historians have labelled it freedom summer. when i first hit mississippi in 1960, when i came back in '61, i had an identity. i'm a stranger walking down the street, but the little kid points, there goes a freedom rider. so the freedom rides had expanded the consciousness of the black community, and so you could use that as your opening. >> william barber was a freedom fighter and he taught us out to fight. >> people are standing up for what's in their soul, in their heart. and trust in a movement a coalition movement is the most important thing. and so as a matter of principle, we say that we're all trying to stand together. >> mississippi really focused on one state and how to change it.
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the fortunately monday campaign can actually shift north carolina, that will also have a multiplier effect. >> this past february, we had upwards of 80,000 people to show up saying forward together, not one step back. challenging directly what these extremists are doing. >> what we had is a negative right to vote. what we need is an affirmative right that says because voting is core constitutional issue, because it's really part of what it means to be a substantive citiz citizens, therefore, people have the right to vote. >> if you want to change america think states. but you have to think beyond liberal, conservative. left versus right. almost like the sit-in movements of 1960, when it happened, it spread. we're not trying to be a national leader, but people are
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understanding that to change america, you've got to think states. and particularly the southern states. been to georgia, now they have a moral monday, florida, south carolina has something called truthful tuesday. alabama started. been invited to indiana, missouri. we've stood with the fast food workers in a number of places includeling when they went into the mcdonald's headquarters recently and shut it down. >> james cheaney,ed a game goodwin and michael schwarner went to help register negros. they said their purpose wasn't to demonstrate. and it was clear the government could offer them little protection. >> that was my responsibility really to tell them in as sober
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words as i could, you know, that the kids were dead, right? and they had now to rethink what they were getting into. it has to be done in a way that they understand that it's okay not to go. they all decided 99.9% that they were up to this. >> our battle is to hold on and what we've already won and expand to what has never been won. >> this generation, they have to learn something about the history of the country, how we got to where we are. >> we learn forward and
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backward. so we learned forward with the war, civil war, and then we lurched back, then we lurched forward again. we're due for another lurch. but if we don't lurch forward, the lurch back will really be hurtful. >> joy reid, we've already covered reverend barber and what he's doing in north carolina here on this network. some people might say well, that's just one state. but bob moses has the answer to that there when he talked about the multiplier effect, as he put it of changing one state. >> absolutely. and if you recall, you have to think about the fact that bob moses was a 20-something-year-old math wiz from new york, goes down there. the whole purpose of what they did in the heart of darkness, mississippi had the lowest black voter registration in the country. for very good reason. it was a risk of your life to try to register african-american
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voters. he took white college students in the north to integrate. so just the bus ride into mississippi was itself dangerous because you had integrated groups of white and black volunteers. you fast forward and you've interviewed the republican white mayor of a town in north carolina who's now part of moral mondays, reverend barber is really a straight line from that. he's about taking a multiparty and ethnic coalition based on basic common interests. and i think that is kind of the next generation of the movement, to stop making it about partisan voter registration necessarily. it was about voter registration period. the reason so many black voters registered as democrats is that's who had all the power in mississippi, alabama, those states. now what you do have with moral mondays and some of the other movements is there's an idea that there's a basic human citizen interest that crosses party lines and racial lines. i think that's important.
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>> you think of the parents of those young students, college students, many of them, graduate student, getting on these buses to go down there after three of these volunteers have been murdered. >> not only that, naacp field director was assassinated in mississippi. this is incredibly dangerous. i've spoke with white naacp white volunteers whose families didn't want them to go to the march on washington. imagine what happened -- and bob had to make the announcement they're dead. this is a 20-something very young guy who had to turn to a room full of frightened people and say to these people, these volunteers are dead. do you want to stay? i think it gives you hope, we're not facing that now. all we're facing are simple barriers to voting that can be overcome. barriers to activism that can be overcome. and people are overcoming them. >> joy reid, few very much for
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