jamie: roy and claudette have three boy, roy, anthony and wesley, roy can't ask for more. then in 1966, tragedy strikes. >> claudette and my dad were coming back from the drag races on their motorcycles, at the end of the ride, truck pulled on ut and claudette was killed instantly. jamie: as 30-year old widower with three young sons, roy relies on his parents who live across the street for child care, he writes and tours, back in nashville, young wesley finds comfort in his father's songs. >> how it visited with him, he was on the road all of the time, so, that was i just always, would go to those records and listen. jamie: on tour in leads eengland, his drummer insist he go out and have fun, at a nightclub he meets 17-year-old beauty barbara skwraeu jacobs. >> he ran into my mom, and he looked over said grab that girl i'm going to mary her. jamie: they fell in love, starting a long distance romance, he suffers another devastating loss, on sep 15, a fire rips through his home in nashville. jamie: where was he? >> the last show of a tourer in gland. he was showing pictures

. >> roy and claudette have klee boys. roy dwayne, anthony, and wesley. roy can't ask for more.her professionally or personally. then in 1966, tragedy strikes. >> claudette and my dad were coming back from the drag races on their motorcycles. at the end of the ride, a truck pulled out and claudette was killed instantly. >> as a 30-year-old widower with three young sons, he relies on his parents who live across the street, for child care. while he soothes himself by writing and touring. back in nashville, young wesley finds comfort in his father's songs. >> it's kind of how we would visit with him, because he was on the road all the time. so just all these -- we would go to those records and listen. >> while on tour in england in 1968, roy's drummer insists he go out and have some fun. at a nightclub, he meets 17-year-old beauty barbara jacobs. >> he ran into my mom and my dad looked over and said grab that girl, i'm going to marry her. >> they fall in love instantly, starting a long distance romance. just as roy is getting on his feet, he suffers another devastating loss. on sep

claudette colvin joins me now.for having me. >> what does selma mean for you? your work was in montgomery but what does selma mean for you? >> oh selma means that we can come here and reflect on all the progress that we have made in civil rights and the laws that we have changed. >> you were 15 years old when you made a decision not to give up your seat. what inspired you to do that? >> all the injustices that was perpetrated on the black community at that time. >> is there something specific about the experience of being young people being teenagers, that makes you willing to risk so much? >> i was willing to risk a lot because so many things was unfair. one of my classmates was supposedly a serial rapist his name was jerry mirece and he was later executed. >> i want to bring in my colleague in new york dorian warren, and ask you, dorian if you also want to weigh in or christina greer there on this question of how young people have been particularly relevant for social movement. >> melissa, that was one of my ques