and then of course the civil rights movement that generated grassroots leaders who came about and then became leaders for the rest of their lives. so the book has those major themes and i think that's exactly what emerges from the interviews and that's why i wrote the book, to call attention to these themes. but you can also just go to the website and find what you want in these interviews. >> phyllis leffler, thank you very much. professor leffler: it's a pleasure. professor leffler: i'd like to begin by asking you to recollect as best you can what you think of as being the most important early influences on your own life.

the communications director and for six years, he was really on the front of fighting the civil rights movement. organization that staged so many of the citizens in the south. otherollaborated with organizations that organized the freedom rides to segregate -- desegregate buses. they fought that battle in a nonviolent but really aggressive way to change some of the normative behaviors and laws of the american south and the country as a whole. in 1968, he ran for the georgia legislature. he was not seated by the legislature and he ran three different times and one each won each time. they refused to seat him because against theion vietnam war. he always believed there was racism contained within that. case all the way to the supreme court and finally won. he was then nominated for vice president of the united states. he couldn't accept it because he was too young to serve. hishe went on all through life to fight for the causes he believed in. then in 1987, he decided to run for the united states congress and lost that election. then went into a variety of other ways of being an activist includin

he was in the civil rights movement and marched with john lewis, the soma hero. gh was also jailed for marching in the movement. rick malle meyer. [applause] his wife is here. she fixed me some mighty fine meals when i was in ohio. sue momeyer. [applause] >> a writer can dream up a moment like this when this book has been selected. a citywide program to be read by everyone at the same time. i will be coming back in a month for multiple, multiple what does the is to call those? multiple-choice questions. [laughter] i can't think the library enough where i used to go on saturday mornings with my 50 cents. there was never a car and my family. i could go to tokyo and i could go to paris and i could go to d.c.. i could go to chicago if i could get myself into the library. the genius behind all that has been pat luzinski. [applause] i will be returning to the city. i'm going on a 24 city book tour and i will be returning to the city october 21 to appear at the ohio state university. that invitation came from a provost of diversity and inclusion at ohio state university.

fundamental in so many ways to the civil rights movement. has that been a problem for you? >> i don't think so. i am not religious in any regard. i have never attended church. except when i was right young. my parents took me. i'm not a religious person at all. i imagine there are people who are saying he is not a christian, he doesn't go to church. every known and people say what church do you belong to? >> they are so taken aback because it is expected that you do. the -- at the recent and a lazy p convection, everyone who -- naacp convention said firstir mark honor to god. i never said that. it is not a part of me. for some people, that is something lacking in the. it is perfectly fine with me. i am want to keep on doing it. >> this call and response that you're talking about is such a traditional religious -- >> it is both religiously waste -- independent of religiously based and independent of religion. it is a rhetorical style. it is great. are issueshink there for black americans that are unique to the black community that you would define as different than national

a civil rights movement was born in montgomery, alabama, and a protest movement was led by the honorable dr. martin luther king, and as a result of this protest movement, many people galvanized they came together and decided they would not ride the buses and they would transport themselves to and from work. well, one might think that this boycott was the reason that the bus line was eventually integrated, after about a year of protestations. but mr. speaker, the hidden hand of justice was the honorable frank m. johnson. because he on a three-judge nel concluded that the brown decision, which applied to schools, should be applied to public accommodations, should be applied to public transportation. he convinced another judge to do system of as a result, they issued an order that desegregated the buses in montgomery, bale. the protest movement was absolutely necessary but he showed that black lives mattered when he decided that he was going to stand for justice and that he was going to issue that order integrating the bus line. ter on, in the case of gomilion versus light foot, it about d

democracy until 1920 when women got the vote so that's the big progress step by talking about the civil rights movement, same-sex marriage. stinnett and that you include in the moral arc? some people would say no. >> they are traditionalists that want to concern the old hierarchical sort of class-based society whereas the trend is to grant more individuals and more autonomy and freedom and liberty over their own bodies and minds. in other words here we are a freedom fest this is what it's all about is that it's my mind and my body and i can do whatever i want and you can tell me what to do as long as i'm not hurting somebody so the two people that want to get married, who cares. it's none of your business what they do as long as no one is hurt and no one is, so that's the kind of step in the right direction. and having that as a standard for write-in individual to have the power and autonomy and choice that's what has been happening extending the moral spirit including more people over the last 250 years or so. >> is this the same as morality? >> yes. so i'm doing two things come the first time trackin

he was in the civil rights movement, he marched with john lewis, the selma hero. he was also jailed for marching in the movement. rick momeyer. [applause] >> his wife is here, during my stay in oxford, ohio. [applause] >> a writer and dream of a moment like this when their book has been selected. in the citywide program to be read by everyone at the same time. i will be coming back in a month with some multiple multiple multiple, what did we used to call those? multiple choice questions. i can't thank the library in of where i used to go on saturday mornings with my $0.50. there was never a car in my family, go to tokyo, i could go to paris, i could go to memphis, tenn. i could go to chicago if i could get myself into the library. the genius behind all that has been hat was in ski. [applause] >> i will be returning to the city, i am going on the 24 city book tour. i will be returning to the city october 21st to up here at the ohio state university, the patient came from the vice provost of diversity inclusion at the ohio state university and her name is sharon davi

yet during like the civil rights movement the media was so critical for spreading that outrage, herewe are back again, almost full circle to that yellow journalism. in what you read did you find examples of people who took back that power, it may be that set some kind of groundwork of how it helped the civil rights movement and how it could work now? >> i'm sorry i'm just taken this question. [laughter] pardon me. i think what happens is we often look at the media as the creator of the attitudes that it is reflecting. so so what my book did was it pinpointed the genealogy of the ideas of the media then reported on. in 1906, if you went to an encyclopedia and you looked up african, it would be described as someone midway between an orangutan and a human being. if you're thinking about the media portrayals, these ideas were not created in newsrooms. they are embedded in the science of the time. they are embedded in the scholarship, the history book, and then the popular culture that just runs a way with it. the idea idea started at harvard, columbia, yell, princeton. the high-minded, h

my buddies and i kept track of the civil rights movement.t more akinwe to blacks than to whites. the war in vietnam looked much like genocide, waged by a racist government against people who looked just like us. so war and oppression in the key minty -- what links them is capitalism. in particularly u.s. finance capitalism that generates imperialism. exists.sm cannot the premise of capitalism is inequality, and from that comes exploitation, oppression, misery, death. as i came to address these issues, i came to understand that in order to have a world where there is no war, we also happen to have a world where there is no money. if you think like that, you are a revolutionary. who thinks like that? i decided i would become a revolutionary, and proceeded to in myferent activities community. and working in that vein, i became close to the black panther party. has anyone seen the movie that is out now? if not, go see it. i was fortunate enough to go on a black panther party delegation went to vietnam. we also went to china and algiers. we were

talk until the cows come home the based on the research that it was the most successful movement was the of civil rights for the women's rights movement. those that are. immigration and then you have pope francis cut man who'd dropped to the microphone at the white house who said we have defaulted on the of promissory notes that was one of the strongest statements in the "i have a dream" speech. boehner there are problems we have seen that. >> so then you have to correctly frame that. i go to the local starbucks i a high five minute arista. and she said there is a homeless guy outside who camps out by the starbucks. every day she gives them a little bit of change because she feels are for him. but when she saw him lying there barack obama is president. get a job. but that is an understanding the problem but how would plays into that narrative so when he goes to more house to say nobody cares about discrimination it is impossible to imagine hillary to say get over the glass ceiling. lead and. >> he thought that he could say that? >> to have the privilege to talk about in a certain way the obligation to l

what had probably helped to define us in the civil rights movement had already had that. i added the peace corps on that. but then it was the vietnam experience, learning what it meant about what our country was in its ability to not understand history and what it was doing in the world, but also to learn about what motivated folks who had sees history and were determined that that history was theirs. we think of vietnam is a small country. it is of course 90 billion people -- 9 million people. it has never been a tiny country. laos is tiny. cambodia is tiny. vietnam always was and will be a key focal point that tom hayden introduced us to in the course of our work. the key focal point for the politics of the region. internationally and regionally. to understand vietnam and our relationship to it, i think we go back to a phrase that ho chi minh used that we used a quote and maybe we understood and maybe we didn't, it is that nothing is more -- more precious than independence and freedom. americans see that phrase and think -- civil rights, liberties. when the vietnamese h

movement, environment to listen, gay rights, the american indian movement. these are all smaller things. and local sexy as the not as vietnam war or civil rights movement. they did not grant people in that way. did sort ofovement explode for a while, because it dealt with almost everything. and you had protesters, student -- debt.g student at homeowners protesting the mortgage crisis. unemployed people from all different backgrounds from walks of life. brings together a much larger group of people, rather than some specific rights for a certain group. >> how would you reconcile citizens united super pac's, and dissent? lph: i don't know if i would want to reconcile them. [laughter] it is pretty clear that the government now believes corporations are people. and that individuals don't have basic rights. i remember after the 14th amendment was passed, that was supposed to really establish individual rights, it began to be used as corporate rights. , i don't knowhing -- one of my students said they believe corporations are people executes one. [laughter] i don't know if one can reconcile them. ishink it's citizens united -- if that just stays there, i thin

civil rights struggle. and, really, what he was part of was an american civil rights movement before america knew that it had a civil rights movement. and so, because he was so engaged, his life story became a natural vehicle for telling the history of black new york from around 1900 to 1950. and i believe all the big events and all the big characters are in there. >> yeah, he saw new york city change. he saw the position of black people in the city change. it's interesting to learn about where the center of black new york was in one decade versus -- you know, how it shifted to harlem. he lived on striver's row. he bought one of the first houses. >> he does follow the migration of blacks in new york city from around columbus circle, which was the heart of black life early in the 20th century. he becomes one of the founding citizens of black harlem in 1906, well before it was a black community, when there was still enormous white racial hostility. and along the way, personally, he becomes the first black cop, suffers threats, suffers ostracism, suffers every attempt to push him off the job -- decides that, if

. >>> teaching us about the civil rights movement and this feels like on a small scale but something similar. >>> what lesson is it for kids? they love the subject, love the teacher that's a great lesson in itself. >>> a final decision hasn't been made on chen's future another meeting is scheduled for next week. >>> if you plan on traveling for this holiday weekend, you can expect some company out there, especially today, according to dot last year the friday before columbus day weekend was the second busiest toll traffic, so far, so good. >>> that's going to change in a few hours so pack your patience. >>> all aboard for your pets, small animals will be allowed on trains from boston to virginia, trips up to 7 hours. >>> there are some restrictions, pets must be in carriers and combined weight must be 20 pounds or less so pet. must be up to date on shots and a 25-dollar surcharge if you want to bring your pet. >>> bostonians, based upon interviews with 6,000 people a group known of go boston 2030 says residents want every household to be 10 minutes or less from a rail station, statio

civil rights records in the congress. i've been involved in the civil rights movement all my life but more importantly what are we talking about that is important for the african-american and the latino community? here is what it is. today among other things real youth unemployment for hispanic kids is 36% for african-american kids, 51%. i'm going to put those kids to work with decent jobs or get them the education they need rather than send them to jail. we need major reforms of a broken criminal justice system and i applaud president obama for taking a pretty bold step and releasing thousands of people nonviolent people from jail. we need those are the kinds of ideas we need -- >> 6,000 there. >> not a small thing. we got more people in jail than any other major country on earth. we spend 80 billion. we're destroying lives. invest in education, invest in jobs, stop sending our kids into jail disproportionately african-american and hispanic. second of all when i talk about making public colleges and universities tuition free it benefits all america and the african-american community and latino community more. when i tal

. >> historically, douglas brinkley, you know, the civil rights movement obviously happened but historicallybeen anything that you can see that equates to sort of the black lives matter movement and the presidential campaign? >> well, i think all this is an out growth with the occupy wall street movement. if you're going to occupy wall street to criticize financial shenaniga shenanigans, you're going to occupy political stages. this is the theater of the '60s, 1960s civil rights movement but there was dick gregory running for president in 1968 and people, a lot of disruption at conventions by african american groups trying to bring a consciousness level to things. i thought -- >> that's considered hanging -- >> let him finish, bob. >> well, people are being shot in america now. black lives matter and trayvon martin and i think there is a lot of legit ma si to black lives matter bs they shouldn't have disrupted hillary clinton, if they did it should have lasted a second and been a hackler. people may have been having to go baby sit or go back to their job and ruin the event for everybody. i d

civil rights. he regretted that he was not old enough at the time to be part of the civil rights movement. he was pro- immigration, these are things whether they make an establishment but they make him different. he is a different kind of a republican. one that we agree on of what republican should emulate now. he would be very popular now. certainly when he was pushing these tax cuts he was going around the establishment. not attacking them, not moaning and blocking everything, but he went around them and succeeded. >> he was in hot water for doing so. >> he was in hot water a lot. he was a senior republicans would be the establishment now, the chairman of the committee, leadership and all of that didn't like the fact that he was not a member of the house ways and means committee and here he was pushing tax legislation. bob dole didn't like it because he didn't agree with the economics of it. he thought, who is this upstart? who is trying to rewrite the tax code. he was an outsider in those days although he was a member of congress. later he became a leader and he blocked his own presiden

one of the great books about the civil rights movement is called "my soul is rested." is a moral history of the civil rights movement. he went on to be the editor of the "new york times. he had an office at the state capital and looked out on a statue of tom watson. and heed at it every day kept asking himself, what happened? what happened to this guy? tom watson started out as a liberal. tom watson would have black preachers on the stump with him when he was campaign in the 1890's and he had this incredible line he would use and why he terrified elites in atlanta. he would tell racially mixed audiences that you are kept bert so you may separately fleeced. that terrified atlanta's elite. something turned in tom watson and it all went wrong. hal wrote about the civil rights movement in this book, and he talks about seeing the statue of tom watson out of his office. he looks at it every day as he puzzled over, what does this mean? when we have aan black homecoming queen at the university of alabama, which was news when he was writing it? history should not be defaced or

spirit of the whole movement in this part of the century byte then you build a social movement looking at the civil-rights struggle and i th3 civil-rights struggle and i threw in the peace that contract with america to get power back to the people had to get into a sense of the social movement? >> it starts up in society set a lot of times if you have a protest movement mothers against drunk drivers the civil-rights struggle started off as a protest movement and it was hugely important to to do so a lot of good things start this way but if they don't fight the injustice to fight for the people who are the object of that. >> is an important distinction. with the people that you fight for to have the strong moral overlay the protest movements are up against though world but is it that interested in. but ultimately your goal should be eighth to be a majority of a protest but then to move on how society can do better. >> one was the civil rights movement talking about the busboy, and those important elements the doctor came with such a visionary it was his role tuesday i cannot believe we used to do that. we

largely because of the rise of the modern civil rights movement of the 1950's and 1960's. people using the stars and bars begin to show up at civil rights marches and activities where integration and segregation changed the laws and mores. the opposition was sometimes peaceful, but often violent. essentially, these are people who decided they did not want change. they want the world to stay the same as it was before the civil war. they wanted the old ways of african-american subjugation and second-class citizenship. of stars andce bars becomes associated with white supremacy and supervision of african-american rights. this is why it is hard for many people to accept the flag as not sinister into just an indication of cultural heritage and not more. because in fact average shows up in these kind of settings, it is associated with those kind of people. the other reason there is an association is you can see it directly in when it is used by certain groups. look at south carolina, that terrible incident earlier this year. in south carolina, the stars and bars that they wanted

it's something they saw during the civil rights movement. ovement. my father was a member of snake. and you saw these same schisms then. the black lives matter movement is not going anywhere. but hillary clinton and bernie sanders and martin o'malley and all 25 candidates on the republican side will have to learn to adjust to this movement, because they're pushing people to talk about their issues. and some people may have a problem with the protests happening. but no one has a problem with the message. >> okay. and katrina, this is a challenge, as bakari said, for all candidates. they have to figure out the best way in which to handle moments like this and to address the concerns. >> well, i fundamentally disagree with some of the messaging, considering that many of these organizations, including black lives matter, are targeting police officers. so, no, not everyone agrees with the message that this group is sending. and i thought the headlines were going to be hillary clinton ejects protesters from event. because when republicans eject peo

in the 1960s he joined the civil rights movement and joined the antiwar protest. he moved to vermont in 1981 and became the first mayor after winning by 12 votes. he served 16 years in the house and is in the midst of his second term in the u.s. senate. his strength is that he has been a consistent and blunt progressive voice on income inequality, universal healthcare, climate change and campaign finance reform. polls lea show him leading the thin new hampshire. >> martin o'malley. he's 52 years old, married, and has four children. and mayor of baltimore o'malley oversaw the greatest crime reduction in any american ski. then he increased minimum wage, passed new gun laws and raised taxes. he's responsible for boosting maryland's economy. he is a progressive to the left of hillary clinton, and the problem with that is that it's the same political lane as bernie sanders. unlike sanders, o'malley is barely registering in the polls. some believe that he could be the strongest democrat in a general election but by his own admission first owe mai o'malley needs a breakt

i love coming from your administration, you often say education is a civil rights movement of our time. what are some of these programs doing to address these persistent inequities? >> get to that. first let me explain why i feel strongly, passionately, this is a civil rights issue of our generation. drink at the same water founding, ride the same bus but are not educated, cannot read, you're not truly free. we've tried to do so much. whether increasing access to pell grants. s $40 billion into pell grants, to 9 million recipients. first generation college goers, many from the minority, give the white house put a spotlight making sure african-americans have access to great education. >> secretary duncan, when you leave office and look back upon your time and your administration what do you best want to be known for? >> starting to ask about legacy questions is not how i think. couple things. first, significantly increase access to high quality early learning opportunities. i keep coming to that. we've invested more than a billion dollars to invest in high-quality settings. we feel grea

civilization and reinscribe american's economic status quo. >> i want to tie this back around to the black lives matter movement and how that relates to the civil rightsblack lives matter, it doesn't seem like they do when you look at some of the statistics in places like chirge chicago, where weem are killing each other. >> again, it's -- this notion of blaming the victim. like who in chicago is perpetrating that violence. i guess that's the question is figuring out what it looks like and where it's coming from. this question is critical in the black live's matter in the fact that the criminal justice reform is the current civil rights issue of today. the criminal justice system is the system through which blacks are losing the right to vote, they are losing housing. they are being banished from society through incarceration. being denied -- >> didn't we fight this battle in the '60s. you mentioned the black panther party, police brutality, the integration of all those plenties like detroit and washington and new york city. wasn't this the issue 40, 50 years ago? >> the country has changed. immigration has changed. immigration increased. jobs have be

chen was teaching us the civil rights movement and this is on a smaller scale but something similar. >> he is a real piece of this school, and i think that taking him away would deprive future students. >> reporter: days after picturing, student -- picketing, students and parents wanted to be heard, silently filing into the brookline school committee meeting to explain why their former teacher larry chen should be spared. they listened until they could listen no more. >> larry chen now! >> i can't be more proud of how you've conducted yourselves. you've been respectful. you've been articulate, you've been passionate, but we do have a very, very important meeting we have to conduct. >> reporter: chen received a notice of termination after using the grown-up version of in the presence of students after school, but a final decision hasn't been made. >> we're not continuing this dialogue right now. i'm sorry. >> you will bring back larry chen. >> reporter: the public discord will have to wait. as for the teachable moment, parents say this is it. >> they love the subject, love the teacher

i said, the civil rights movement, and everything, it was organized by women. they put in a lot of the work for the organization behind it. . whittled my way in i saw a lot of women there also. they were the ones handling the money, collecting donations. women are deftly involved. without the women, the men would not have the kurds to go out there and do that. next up is barbara from texas. how do you say the name of your town? zapata. th we are on the border with mexico. i watched the million man march yesterday and 20 years ago. it made me feel good. what is so important to me is was minister farrakhan saying about what is going on with the weather in the united states. the pope came and got attention from everybody, including myself, i watched every day. when it came to this, there was no media. when they killed the nine in south carolina, it seemed that south carolina got beaten down with that storm. i believe that a lot of things are going to happen because they did not listen when obama made president. they did not listen when the pope came. right after h

there's not a big civil rights movement like in the '60s that's driving the more liberal. that's the way i've seen it. >> so i'm ross eisenbrekt. and i have a question, because i'm very confused about pre-'65, the ability or the status of people who came without authorization. i mean, people were deported, i know. and for all kinds of reasons. and it seems that being here without authorization would have been one of those reasons. and then i just want to make a comment about family and the, one of the new civil rights, which is, you know, how we treat lgbt people. you know, this law, i think, allowed or required the exclusion of homosexuals. i'm not sure, but that was certainly what happened. and going forward, one would hope that that wouldn't be the case and that a new, a new way of looking at family, even in, for immigration purposes would take into account lgbt families. >> yes, so let me comment on that last point about the exclusion of gays and lesbians from immigration law, that's issue, 1965 kept that in place. in fact, the law built, classified people who are lgbt

this is a guy who has a long history in the civil rights movement.erican voters. he did you want like talking about himself. he hates profiles. talk to anyone on his staff and they will tell you he doesn't want to talk about his life. he has to do that. >> not a chitchaters. a very hard interview. >> i think it was van jones who made an excellent point yesterday. bernie sanders is the guy who has packed 5u8 these arena. s, 20,000 people, knows how to kill on stage. but when you're standing up there, it's very different on a stage with four other candidates speaking to them potentially attacking them, it's different. >> he's more comfortable talking about policy than talking face to face about you or about you or this voter or that voter. that's something a presidential candidate has to be able to do, which is to connect individually. i'll be interested to see how bernie sanders does that tonight and also how hillary clinton does that tonight because she's got the same problem to a degree. >> that's my third prediction. i think bernie sanders comes wi

and then, because we were invisible, and the civil rights movement happened in the '60s, i would try to align myself with black people. i would try to be black, because there was no latino platform. we were still invisible. all of a sudden the world became you know, black people-- rose. and then i said, "okay, i'll just slide in with these people". still not finding where i was going to fit in as a latina. >> does your own daughter see the world in a different way? is there less pressure to sort of pick a side and figure out where you're at than there was in 1968? >> my daughter lives in the south and she favors her father who's white. and she has an african american boyfriend. and i think they get pressure from both sides. >> so the country's not that different than it was in--. >> it's not that different. i think that racism has really reared its ugly head in-- in-- in ways that were unimaginable to me. in '69 i thought we were gonna fix all of that with sesame street, but-- clearly it hasn't. >> yet, you lived long enough to sit on the set at sesame street and share a coffee with

civil rights while at the same time we are denied human rights. >> farrakhan called for more responsibility in the inner- city, calling the black lives matter the next leaders of the civil rights movement.>>> gov. brown just signed the voter act which eligible -- registers eligible voters when they get their driver's licenses or renew them. critics say automatic registration could lead to voter fraud if people who are not eligible are registered.>>> gov. brown vetoed several bills, including one authored by david hsu which would have increased funding for low income housing credit. there >> a worldwide problem with high-stakes. we will tell you how much money companies are spending to fight hackers and cyber criminals. >>> bill cosby was questioned about a decades old molestation cannot -- case. he was disposed -- deposed as part of all lawsuit when he was accused of molesting a 15-year- old girl in 1974. some of the deposition could become public>> on december 22, 2015, judge harlan will take these concerns into account when he makes a further decision regarding which portions of the transcript of the depositions should remain sealed and which portions, if any, should be made public.>

>> could you please share with us your emotional reactions to the 1960s with black power, civil rights movement? what were you thinking and feeling during that particular time period? >> i found it all profoundly moving and thrilling. i was a little girl really when the first civil rights demonstrations started. and to hear my parents and their friends, you know, talking about king, and then there's -- we moved into the '60s, suddenly james baldwin, you know, was articulating everything for us. the break for my generation was black power and the '60s. and it was extraordinary because it was linked up to an entire racial and class critique of america, of white america, of black bourgeois america. and it was extraordinary. it changed my life. followed by, which were just as indispensable, the women's movement. and then later, you know, by various ethnic, peoples of color and gay rights. all of that was profoundly transformative. >> dr. shirley thompson's colleague at ut, lisa thompson, or wrote a book "beyond the black lady" that i think your book goes well in conversation with. i was wondering,

civil rights while at the same time we are denied the human rights of self- determination. >> call for more responsibility in the black community for inner city killings and blames those behind the black lives movementt leaders of the civil rights movement. >>> no jail time for be -- bergdahl. that coming from an officer presiding over the case. bergdahl is accused of leaving his post in afghanistan. military prosecutors charged him in march can dissession and misbehavior before the enemy which carries a maximum penalty of life in prison. a lieutenant colonel says bergdahl should face a lower level court martial and be spared from the possible. >>> and nine and released last year after he was exchanged for fival ban commanders. >>> all right. time now is 8:20. up next, we have one of the people hoping to become the next and last american idol. >> yeah. we're going to chat with that person. that woman, i believe coming up next. resident chandler layton. >> we're so excited for you. >> yeah, i'm here. i'm excited. i'm ready this year. if you are returning, that's good. a lot of people don't know that whole behind-the-scenes process. i have seen folks go through it. the it's nerve-racking. you have to

the stone wall inn will forever stand as the site of the modern gay civil rights movement. it was designated as an official landmark. in 1969, a police raid of that bar sparked what became known as the stone wall uprising by gay patrons. >>> film crews shooting the movie that depicts the miracle on the hudson. cameras from the top of the rock here in the comcast building captured activity yesterday on the hudson. a barge for the clint eastwood directed film set up in the river off of west 38th street. that's a little south of where it actually happened. filming here in new york city expected to continue through friday. they may have a bit of a delay. >> right. we remember when it actually happened. >> brings me right back there. >>> 4:58. you might consider looking through those old coins your grandfather left you. >> one auction shows they could be worth millions. this $10 gold piece set a new record yesterday. it went for $2.5 million. it does date back to 1795. 105 u.s. coins were auctioned here in town. they all belong to a dallas property developer. the grand total of

head of a biracial committee in memphis the husband of maxine smith a great leader of the civil-rights movement. and my father met with him to devise a plan waiting until the house was dark they brought one black couple in to use it that in the white section while the house was dark. with the lights went on they saw there was a black couple but it was only one couple. the next week they brought in two black couples and is that the the white section during the middle of the movie when it was dark. they did that each week for four weeks until after four weeks as the black couples wanted could come into the theater. my father didn't want any publicity to happen while this experiment was going on. there are other businesses so your father that with us today and fire police commissioner so asked to the newspaper to keep this quiet he did not want this to the newspaper. my father and the police commissioner kept this secret from the mayor of memphis because he was a staunch racist and segregationist and would have killed all the whole thing. it is the civil-rights action without telling the mayor of

so on 8/28, this august, down in birmingham, alabama, where the last civil rights movement started, i'm asking people to come together of all different faiths, of all different beliefs, of all different walks of life that can say, you know what? my political interests may differ from you, but my principles are the same. we've got to stop talking about interests and start talking about principles. so we're going to on saturday the 29th we're going to have a march on the same streets that martin luther king did. i have alveda king joining me, and i believe i have ruth graham, billy graham's daughter, joining me on other arm. we have thousands of pastors coming from all over of all different religions and people coming from all over. and then we're going to the start putting that into action. because i believe it's time for people of all walks of life to stand up and raise their hand and be counted and say, you know what? we've got to stop the hatred, we have to stop, we have to stop jamming our point of view down other people's throats, start seeing people for human beings again. and the

for example, we think of the civil rights movement beginning in 1955 in montgomery, alabama and completeing its work in 1965 with the passage of the voting rights act. whoohoo. it took one decade to change america. look more carefully. can you see dre the scott told he has no right. homer pless i, you can see people throughout the south crushed in the early 1,900s. the civil rights movement didn't take ten years to change america. it took closer to 110 years t. moveth remains today. they remain fragile. fighting, fame failing. this is what we do. the struggle continues. no one promised us that our part of the struggle would be the part to enjoy for victory. our efforts may fail and fail and fail. but those failures do not absolve us of responsible to tried and right now in our country, our fellow sids are dying and they are dying in part because guns are too plentiful, too easily obtained and too deadly. they are dying in part because we have not made the choices to make to limit the number, the access and the sheer killing of american firearms. we are failing. but that does not mean we are

the civil rights movement, for instance, you know? and again, it came from the bottom. when you think of the women's movement, getting women the right to vote, it came from the bottom. so all of these movements are the ones... the workers movement, you know, to create labor unions, came from the bottom. and once people understand... because basically people in the united states have very good hearts. and they always want to do the right thing, and they want to do the fair thing. but if they don't know, then it's very hard for them to participate. so basically, as an organizer, what you have to do is you have to break it down into a message. once people understood the kind of conditions the farm workers were living under, you know, that they didn't have drinking water in the fields, or toilets for the women, or for anybody in the fields, you know, rest periods, and that they were being brutalized, then people wanted to help. but it's got to come from the people first. it had to come from the farm workers so that people could understand. and i think that that's the big sec

so that's the kind of big progress steps that i'm talking about, civil rights movement, same-sex marriage is a, is now legal as of, you know, barely a week and a half. >> host: and that you include in "the moral arc." >> guest: oh, yes, absolutely. >> host: some people would say no. >> guest: i know. but they're traditionalists who want to conserve the old hierarchical, you know, sort of class-based society whereas the long-term trend is to grant more individuals more autonomy and freedom and liberty over their own body, their own mind. in other words, here we are at freedom fest. this is what it's all about is that it's my mind, it's my body. i can do whatever i want, and you can't tell me what to do as long as i'm not hurting somebody else. so two people that are in love that want to get married, who cares? it's none of your business what they want to do, none of my business as long as no one's hurt. so that's the kind of step in the right direction. and having that as the standard that is the rights of an individual to have the power and autonomy and choice over his own mind and body,

the largest gathering on the national mall since the civil rights movement organized support in the 60s. >> i'm honored that you have come to represent our struggle and our demands. >> it's thought the event 20 years ago led to a spike in black voter registration which became vitally important for at least one person there. there was an illinois state senator in the crowd there. his name was barack obama, a sign of how things have changed and how in many ways things remain the same. there were initial concerns this might attract trouble. but this gathering was peaceful to remember the ground covered, and the distance still to. >> real evil in america is not white flesh or black flesh. >> i did not attend the event as a reporter but as an african american man who wanted to witness a historic gathering. my son-in-law and i took a train from new york to union station where we joined the crowd converging on the mall. the total was revised upward to more than 800,000. organizers still insist more than a million men attended. whatever the number, it was a day to remember. a powerful, symbolic