a.g. gaston motel. looks like a thriving business? it's closed. it's closed. i couldn't get over it. so i took a lot of pictures. the whole street basically is desolate. but see, it's all locked up. if you look in the courtyard, if you look in the courtyard, i think the room where martin luther king gathered with his people and where he prayed is in the corner up there on the second floor. sad, isn't it? that's from the back. so this building which is across the street from the motel, not far from the motel, rather, is called the a.g. gaston building. so he really was quite a successful business man in town. these are all over town describing the marches. but here, look at this. the march route, you can walk the same march. you can walk in the footsteps of martin luther king on that day, good friday, in 1963. you are here and you can go to the place where he was arrested. anyone been to the lincoln memorial in the last few years in washington? no one's been there? oh, it's a very cool memorial. but if you go, did you know that the steps that -- the place where martin luther king stoo

so this building which is across the street from the motel, not far from the motel, rather, is called the a.g. gaston building. so he really was quite a successful business man in town. these are all over town describing the marches. but here, look at this. the march route, you can walk the same march. you can walk in the footsteps of martin luther king on that day, good friday, in 1963. you are here, and you can go to the place where he was arrested. anyone been to the lincoln memorial in the last few yea no one's been there? oh, it's a very cool memorial. but if you go, did you know that the steps that -- the place where martin luther king stood when he gave the i have a dream speech is marked by a star? you can stand on exactly the place. i wasn't supposed to take this picture. this is in the birmingham civil rights museum where they said no pictures. i couldn't resist. this is his cell. this is i believe, if it's not a mock-up, i actually believe it's the real cell where king was for those eight days where he wrote letter from a birmingham jail. so i took a secret photograph. this is the top of t

gaston motel. the only motel that would rent to them. by the way, the guy that owned that motel was the richest african american in montgomery and he charged them market rates. a.g. gaston was known -- the biography of him says birmingham's black millionaire. so he's one of the guys. he's one of the guys for whom waves were being made. can you imagine charging market rates to the southern christian leadership conference in 1963? charging market rates to martin luther king when he comes to fight segregation in your town? the guy was skeptical. didn't even give him a discount. so about 20 of them gather, including fred shuttlesworth who is a real fire brand in the town. i mean he's a guy who had been beaten so many times, it's just amazing what he went through long before martin luther king ever got involved in civil rights. so they're in that room and they are arguing it out. if king goes on the march, he knows he'll be arrested. he's the chief fundraiser for the civil rights movement nationwide. he's the only face that's known outside of alabama and the deep south among all the people that are there. he was constantly going to new york and other northern places.