there were only three speakers that day bill payne, myself, and that's me leading dr. king down.that photograph is medgar he havhe evers. i said he was going back to mississippi even though he was threatened with assassination. he went back, and he gave his life. that's why bill payne and others committed the rest of my life to work as hard as i could if he gave his life, and the least i do could is the same. >> you chose a life of politics. what was it like to be a political figure of color? >> well, one of the things that i learned because of people like that that you must do everything you possibly can wherever you are to try to change the situation here. when i was a member of the state legislature i tried to use my position to bring about change. i took on issues that some were very unpopular in the legislature, but i didn't care. one was i introduced legislation that is now law that says that the african-american contribution to this country must be infused in the regular curriculum, not only for black schools, not only for february, but throughout the year in every single

and bill payne, a former new jersey assemblyman.at to have you both with us on this historic day. >> i'll start with you. how should the movement be defined 6 years later? >> well i think the - obviously the selma march was memorialized today as a mop umental move part of the civil right movement. today, getting together and recognising those people who participated some 50 years ago at that particular time was something that needed to be done, shut be done, and memorialize that. when i think about it 50 years ago, or today, 50 years later, there's more that needs to be done. so much mar that we hoped would have been accomplished by this time. unfortunately, it seems as though the racism that we experienced way back then is rearing its ugly head and has never gone away. i think what we'll see now with the selma march and the ferguson issues are those that will awaken people now. >> as we look at the haunting images, ms gillespie, it was not only a day to reflect on the past, but to shine a light on the future was it not. >> yes. it