dr. martin luther king jr. room was chosen because it was the most insular room in the house and the phone calls sometimes lasted for hours. so that is the actual phone in which dr. king would receive the president's phone calls. that came into this house. things were very volatile. the country was aware of how volatile things were in selma. and in the south. so, dr. king and the president kept, i don't want to say regular calls, but they did have a direct connection on a semifrequent basis to discuss what was going on, what would repair the country, and exactly what both men needed to keep this country on track and to keep violence down. >> then we've got to come up with the qualification of voters. that will answer 70% of your problems. >> that's right. no tests on what chaucer or browning said. you will have to take it to the postmaster >> the dining room in the jackson museum is very much a foundation for this house. it is not only the place where my mother and father and i shared so many wonderful dinners,

our reports surface that kennedy as attorney general had approved wiretaps on dr martin luther king and others. bobby's reputation as a civil rights advocate lay in tatters but he survived his sent back and now focused his efforts on ending the conflict in vietnam. johnson's policies on the war had become increasingly unpopular more and more american supported kennedy's views. on march the sixteenth one thousand nine hundred sixty eight robert f. kennedy announced that he would run for president. i do not think it did my candidate. or the president of the united states. i do not run for the presidency merely to oppose any man. but the whole new policy. that this country is on for. because i have such strong feeling. about what must be done. and i feel that i'm. to do all that i can. see you call it. policies. and in our city. all of these polls that gap. between black and white. because that is now on mistaken belief. that we can change these disasters to bite the policy. only by changing the man we're now making. was bush surely an impossible dream i candidate did not have the backing

to demand civil rights and jobs dr martin luther king stood in front of the lincoln memorial and delivered his historic i have a dream speech bobby kennedy respect a king's commitment to civil rights but had concerns about his private life and had authorized the f.b.i. to tap his phone is later president johnson would use this to discredit kennedy with the black community. in november president kennedy flew to dallas texas for a series of political meetings. bobby would never see his brother alive again. it was the end of an era bobby kennedy was devastated by the assassination and to a lesser extent by the fact that he and john would never be able to fulfill their vision for america. be fair that his brother would now go down in history as a well intentioned mater and that the kennedy presidency would be remembered mostly for this final tragedy and not for the crises it had faced. lyndon johnson was sworn in as president bobby disliked johnson intensely and all of this seems somehow like a coup d'etat. bakery . barely able to function he was now. longer a forceful presence at cabinet meet

dr. martin luther king a month earlier. kennedy gave the students a call to action. when you look across this country and when you see people's lives held back by discrimination and poverty when you see injustice and inequality, he said you should be the last people to accept things as they are. let kennedy's words echo here today. you should be the last people to accept it. whatever path you've chosen, be it medicine or business engineering or the humanities, whatever drives your passion be the last to accept the notion that the world you inherit cannot be improved. be the last to accept the excuse that says that's just how things are done here. duke graduates, you should be the last people to accept it. and you should be the first to change it. [applause] mr. cook: the education you received gives you few opportunities that you have. you are uniquely qualified and therefore uniquely responsible to build a better way forward. that won't be easy. it will require great courage. but that courage will not only help you live your life to the fullest, it will empower you

dr. martin luther king did not stop us. i'm here to tell you that nothing that the congress of the united states of america and the policeman and the national guard they can do here in washington that can stop us. we have made up our minds that we are not can let anybody turn us around. [applause] come to washington for our freedom. we have come to washington for just this. -- for justice. we have come to washington for jobs. >> it looks like a nice place. water, light and everything like that. >> i just feel sorry for the young people. the sick youngsters. i did not know much about what was going on, but i know that something is wrong. otherwise, they would not be here. >> it is one way of drawing attention to what has been happening for 100 years and longer. >> i do not think that they should use other people's money. i think they're going about it wrong. >> their up your get something for nothing. >> there is nobody got aced derek drive -- a stake driving them -- a stick driving them. why do not they get -- white don't t

dr. martin luther king before his assassination in april 1968. the events were documented by producer edward scheer and a rarely seen 20 minutes film titled "on the case." anne, thank you for being with us. it chronicles the division between black and white america. how did your husband put it together and what do you think the audience will take away after watching? >> and putting it together, he and his colleague spent eight weeks and 27 hours of tape recording andce filming. they went to mississippi. they filmed the buses. and all the way through the resurrection city. use of the audiotape rather than an interview on camera, my husband felt would make people more willing to express what they really felt because they wouldn't be tied to a voice and a face and an individual. it would be anonymous. we've got spectators out here. we've got some so-called white liberals out here. we've got the bloggers was he out here, but it ain't nothing man. what these people do when they go back to the homes, then we find whoever is outside. these are like to s

martin luther king's assassination. >> this has been a fateful week in the history of our nation. we join with men of goodwill everywhere in paying our profound respects to the memory of drabout the increasing awareness of all men that we must unite in compassion in order to survive. >> the best picture nominees that year were genuinely controversial and influential. movies like "bonnie and clyde," "the graduate," "guess who's coming to dinner," "in the heat of the night," both trying to address racism and race relations. >> virgil, that's a funny name. for a negro man. i heard you come from philadelphia. what did they call you up there? >> they called me mr. tibbs. >> "in the heat of the night," sidney poitier was playing a black man who was strong, who was smart, who was decisive. the movie takes place in the deep south. >> let me understand this. you two came here to question me? >> we were just trying to clarify some of the evidence. was mr. colbert ever in this greenhouse, say last night about midnight? >> this is 1968. you don't have black men hitting white men in movies and getting away with it and living to tell the tale, anyways, and he does. >> there was a time

i first want to state that as a professional i have worked at dr martin luther king met a school and a high school. i was formerly the director of the. health leader program. >> can you state your name for the record? >> my name is leticia jones. i went to malcolm x academy. i graduated from celebrate in high school. third generation bayview hunters point and my kids are now proudly fourth-generation. all of those titles, all of the titles that i have warned -- born, what brought me into night is as a concerned parent, in my heart has been broken over the last couple of weeks as my son started new traditions elementary school, two months ago. he started the school and he has had his face spirit and, he has had issues taken off and put in the toilet, and none of those issues are properly addressed. they were softly addressed. what happened, what brought me here tonight is in a field for parents and students, and everyone else who is at a community event, his teacher began to scream at him, he doesn't deserve to be here. i asked if we could speak about a matter that had just happened d

dr. martin luther king jr. wrote when he was in a birmingham jail. he talked about our need to embrace others. really the only way to receive and to achieve solutions to our social ills. he reminded us that we are caught up in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. you all have been tied in a garment of destiny while you were here on campus. but you have reached out to others who are in that garment as well. , you have reached out across lines, across differences. i applaud you for rejecting the calls for division that come from the outside, and choosing instead to reach across those lines and demanding that our institutions do so as well. and that is not only the institution that you find yourself in today in the university but the institutions that support our democracy, our political institutions, and the institutions that you will be entering into as workplaces. so keep up that drive, keep up that energy, keep up and continue to embrace community over division. sharing your experiences through protests, through

the original poor people's campaign was launched by dr martin luther king in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight according to lose thier how hours since then the gap between rich and poor has grown she believes that with donald trump as president the situation is only growing worse and she insists that something must be done. to take away our poverty not our children. are who we are. it's. our suspend twenty years working with grassroots anti-poverty groups she had long wanted to launch a campaign. if we do about hear about the poor it's to have you know race bait people it's divide people it's to blame for the problems that everyone's having and it's to say that that poor people are lazy crazy and under starving when you know again eighty percent of americans at something. and i live well experience hardship so you know are all of us lazy crazy and good for nothing love the next morning on capitol hill harrison who group want to pressure congress to finally take action there demanding higher minimum wages health insurance for all and affordable housing well over the initiators of th

dr. martin luther king at the march for jobs and freedom in invoking the emancipation proclamation, the end of slavery and arguing for an asking for economic rights for blacks. later in his life, as i'm sure you all know, martin luther king joins the poor people's campaign. he was in memphis where he was assassinated to march with the striking sanitation workers there, as we have been reminded by the 50th anniversary just last month. continuing the tradition today of ashley would include job production and wage increases for low-wage workers who are still disproportionately people of color and raising the minimum wage for the same reason. statesar, the united into controversy over monuments of the southern rebellion leaders. ashley hated those that were erected before his death in 1893. in his draft memoir, he spoke viciously about them, claiming they were whitewashing slavery, claiming those monuments should also have a statue of a slave in chains or a slave running away from slave catchers to accompany it. ashley, no monument to although the toledo federal courthouse is now named for him

endeavor to dr luther himself is supposed to have said twice a long time not. well then it must be right. catalina and martin luther founded an institution of us the clerical marriage had a tremendous impact on cultural history because it effectively ended religions demonization of sexuality for toys for long sexuality monsters also made of flesh and blood wasn't mentioned off life not mass age and it was a bombshell oft not just for luther it's contemporary because in austin i wanted nobody inside could not. you know bomb. the reformation didn't just revolutionize family life with its emphasis on the sermon it also transformed religious services. the core messages depicted above the altar of the church invest in back salvation cannot be earned through good works sacraments or indulgences. was. salvation is attained only through the grace of god. was there was no longer any into meijer in between god and humankind neither a pope nor a church. luther had paved the way to a new world order. charles the fifth was determined to prevent its emergence after the edict yvonne's he'd left germany to wage war on numer

since you have as of it were gathered here to put an end to the blasphemous lie a spread by dr martin luther from that under the new tower strictly that. myth with heretics zeal yes cast doubts on tape a lot thora to into his writings to question the author of the of the church and in so doing he has destroyed the unity of all christians genial tell martin luther are you ready to recount your life's an heiress here and now he can't yet so we don't hold. even luther's powerful supporters advised him to recant. no one can deny that through the pope's laws the consciences of the faithful have been most pitifully troubled. on does and also to the possessions of the germination have been devoured by unbelievable tyranny or that if then i recant the only effect will be to add strength to such tyranny to open not the windows but the main doors to such blasphemy of. any snitched unless i am convinced by the testimony of scripture or by clear reason i cannot and will not recant anything. so help me god. a man. last. luther's appearance before the diet of ones went down in history is a turning point i

ninety five theses which luther posted invitation back in fifteen seventeen and a portrait of dr martin luther based on a woodcut illustration by lucas khanna. according to the head librarian visitors a surprise time and again to find such rare books in such a small town. i must say that the library is extremely important for our history and for german history too because it bears witness to how germans lived here what the school was like what they did here what education and the cultural life were like and what the library was like. back to the exciting sherpas race in the prime one hundred kilogram event. all the competitors have to push themselves to the limit and with every need to they climb the big load on their backs gets even heavier. a normal high kill would take eighty to ninety minutes for the distance the sherpas coverage in half the time forty to forty five minutes. but even they have to take breaks that show got a check needs to stop occasionally on for. a brief pause for breath and a quick drink. the effort is immense. for just the last third of the distance is the toughest it i

dr. martin luther king jr..plause] >> from the american federation of teachers, please welcome, randy weingarten. >> our choice is not whether change will come, but whether we can guide that change in the service of our ideals and toward a social order shaped to the needs of all our people. in the long run, we can master change not through force of fear, but only through the framework of an understanding mind, through an openness and new knowledge in fresh outlooks which can only strengthen the most fragile and powerful of human gifts, the gift of reason. hemispheric -- johan nesburg, south africa, june 8th, 1966. [applause] >> please welcome our next -- emma, gonzales gonzales, representing the student movement, march for our lives, the recipient of the 2018 student human rights award. [applause] emma: first is the danger of futility, the belief there is nothing one woman -- one man or one woman can do against the ignorance and injustice and aling -- and violence, yet young began the protestant reformation, a y

dr. martin luther king jr.as turned into a major racial issue in memphis. >> we were an orderly march going up the main street. i was in the middle of it. and there was some unruly people no doubt, loud people. and i saw the police in a phalanx and said they're going to break up this march. >> then suddenly a handful of men are busting a window over here. >> chaos has just broken out downtown. negro youths are smashing windows. >> and i went back to king in the first rank and said, martin, the police up there are planning to break us up, and you're going to be a major target. so we're going to turn around and go back. >> that sound you just heard was the sound of tear gas fired by a police officer in an attempt to thwart this unruly demonstration. >> if you do not leave this area, you will be arrested. we urge you to return to your homes immediately for your own safety. >> move! >> we must not allow the events of the day to cause us to let up. that would be a tragic error. >> there will be continued marches. we

dr. martin luther king made his "i have a dream" speech, and that was the same time frame when justin herman plaza got rid of the fillmore district, which was 60 squarelocks and 5 to 10% was japanese and chinese people. so we need to have a hearing on the fillmore. >> supervisor yee: thank you. >> good morn i'm jane chin. i'm the interim director of the chinese historical society, and thank you for this opportunity to address count was lady liberty stands in new york harbor, give me your poor, your hudled masses, to be free, this was not for the chinese. the exclusion law severely impacted the lives of the chinese peopl and the tens of thousands of men who were already here. first because the law required chinese to have proper documentation in order to reenter the united states if they were to leave to visit their family inhina prohibited them from leaving. and second, without being able to visit their wievs aves and children they left behind in china, their family unit was destroyed. imagine men could not return to their wives and children they left behind. imagine women in china never to

dr. martin luther king. she's the founder of the black heritage council of alabama.n black sunday happened in selma, she met the injured marchers right here at first baptist church. >> even though there was gas on bloody sunday, all of them didn't go to good samaritan. we had an infirmary because a lot of people didn't have medical. they had a little section there. >> those girls were down here in this basement. >> reporter: jesse strong was just a little boy when a bomb thrown by klansmen ripped through this church in birmingham. >> we cleaned up after breakfast. we felt something go boom. we came outside and there was a big hole in this part of the church. there was smoke. the pressure from the dynamite knocked the cars out of the street. >> reporter: killed in the blast, four little black girls who were in suay school. many more stories like theirs are left untold. that is where the equal justice initiative comes in. they've worked with the state and other activists to create a historic civil rights trail marking spots like this one where montgomery's massive slav

dr. martin luther your birthday a holiday king jr. >> there is a picture in the back and you can see dr.sitting in this seat here. >> he was a senior. yeah. >> so when he was here did people have any sense of what he would become. >> no. >> not at all. >> no, he was just a very sharp dresser. >> okay. all right. which is a part of being a morehouse man. >> yeah, yeah. >> what was it like going to the school in the 40s and 50s. i would imagine america was pretty different. >> this was a very vibrant, luxurious intellectual center that just vibrated with intellect. and with hope. >> hbcus produced some of the great leaders of the civil rights. rosa parks. thurgood marshall and one of the geat leaders of the avengers samuel jackson. and still today hbcus are a breeding ground for leadership and change. >> it seems that morehouse is churning out more than it's fair share of leaders into the world. >> i you don't know all they have in them and what they're able to do. >> a student walks out you go, that marty king was pretty good. see what happens he will make a good minister. >> he will do g

dr. martin luther king jr. >> i can feel in my own heart the same kind of feeling.t 42 years old, after winning the california primary, he was also the victim of an assassin's bullet. >> it's on to chicago and let's win there. >> reporter: days later, his brother, senator ted kennedy, remembered him. >> my brother need not be idolized, or in death beyond what he was in life. to be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw ong and tried to right it. saw suffering and tried to heal it. saw a war and tried to stop it. >> chris matthews is the host of "hardball" on msnbc. he is also the author of "bobby kennedy: a raging spirit." robert f. kennedy is a towering figure in american history. mro brother of jfk, the u.s. senate. >> he is the un-trump. he's a uniter not a divider. what other caucasian could have walked into indianapolis and told them that the hero of all-time had been shot by a white guy. he had a connection. he cared about individual people regardless of background. he could talk to working class people and could do both with the same kind of affe

dr. martin luther king warned us about people like chuck schumer. it wasn't the ku klux klan and white senior counselors who were the obstacles of justice. it was people calling forivelity and people telling us how to protest. when we talk about civility, it is not civil to rip babies from their mothers. it is not civil to break up muslim families. it is not civil to take away health care from millions of americans. so you want to talk to me about civil lit, let's make're engaging in justice and ensuring every american has access to health care and housing, that there is no poverty in america. i was at laguardia airport and i recorded a video of children, i'm talking between the ages 5 to 8 being that came off a united airlines flight who were unaccompanied minors. i am distraught we live in a country talking about civility but don't see the same outrage about kids being strip interest their mothers. >> there's a little bit of a difference between the right and the left. >> really? >> see it in the people chanting lock her up at trump raleighs. ther

dr. martin luther king, and just going back to when you were on the board of supervisors, your heart and soul was with san francisco. even when you went to work for the law firm, there were certain clients you wouldn't take because you wanted to be on this commission. you wanted the best for this commission, and you gave your heart and soul. i just want to personally say thank you for all your hard work and your dedication. >> thank you. i know commissioner makras and gilman, you haven't served with commissioner katz, but let me know if you want to say something. >> you're a great public servant. thanks for all you have done. >> leslie knows this. when she was on the board, she was the first supervisor i ever spoke to. just to let you know, i had blue nail polish, and i had to call my cousin to get the advice to take it off before i spoke to you. thank you for your service. >> thank you. leslie, my friend, i just want to let you know that you have brought so much to the commission, and we are going to miss your valued insight and input on so many different areas. i mean, you always have

dr. martin luther king, jr., my late teacher and friend, reminded us that the end does not justify the means. the opposing group has a good end in mind, and so do we. but for people to misrepresent the position of naacp on this matter, and i have the good evidence that it was represented by the opposing group, some of the representatives of that group, that the naacp was supporting charter schools. our national office of the naacp last year called for a moratorium on all charter schools. [alause] >> finally, i must say that thomas jefferson said that education is the foundation of our democracy. and i might add further, a mix of the wisdom of mississippi, education is like fertilizer. if you don't spread it around, it does absolutely nothing, nobody any good. charter schools came up with a notion about their doing something to educate. all of us ought to be concerned about the education of children, and public schools belong to us. it's the right of every family and child to have a quality education, so i hope that this board will hold your -- mr. superintendent, we're on our way. we're work

dr. martin luther king jr. was killed, he's the one that calmed the crowd and called us to new hope.was tough. it was tough to go on. >> as both allies and rivals joined together at st. patrick's cathedral for the funeral, the last surviving kennedy brother gave the eulogy. >> i want to express to those who mourn today in this cathedral, around the world. we loved him as a brother, as a father, as a son. >> i knew my dad. when i watch that video of him speaking at my uncle bobby's funeral, his voice cracking. >> those of us who loved him and take him to his rest today pray that what he was to us, what he wished for others will some day come to pass for all the world. >> there's a moment there where he wants to weep and america wants to weep. and yet you're not allowed to. >> as he said many times, in many parts of this nation, to those he touched and who sought to touch him, some men see things as they are and say why, i dream things tha nev wer and say why not. >> america los hope, america lost its innocence again. america lost youth. america lost a passionate leader who cared deepl

rights act, that year, got put into effect by demonstrations and speeches that were made by dr martin luther king. discriminatory practice and tricking devices were applied to black people by justin herman. he did the ethnic cleansing of my nationality of the people of the film our area and as a result, 15% population a black people that existed in the fillmore area is down to two and a half-3.5% now. people outside of complaining about the difference of treatment that they are receiving, and even when we protest, we still have a low amount of people that are stressing how they are being on the receiving end of discriminatory practices and tricking devices because of their skin colour. you have other nationalities or even joining in. very much so in the same manner that i come and speak up for other nationalities who are being violated. you watch me speak up for rape victims, you've watched me speak up for it's hispanics in the mission district and i spoke up for people who are at doing in-home care who haven't even been paid for services. now it is time for me to speak up more for my own na