for dr. kinging a general civil rights perspective with an anti-war perspective. we're not going to see the whole clip, but in the end of the clip, stevie flashes the peace sign. this, i think, this is the era of black power, which is associated with black militancy. what's interesting is in a lot of this music, you see people trying to project a civil rights-oriented vision of integration and racial harmony, even as they are protesting against the status quo. we tend to think of civil rights and black power as a clean break. but i think when you look at the music, you get a sense of the continuity between civil rights. and black power. ♪ ♪ heaven help the girl who walks the streets alone ♪ ♪ heaven help us all ♪ heaven help a black man if he struggles one more day ♪ ♪ heaven help the white man if he turns his back away ♪ ♪ heaven help us all ♪ heaven help us all ♪ heaven help us all ♪ heaven help us lord, hear our call ♪ ♪ when we call ♪ heaven help a boy that won't reach 21 ♪ ♪ heaven help the m

and dr. king. another thing to keep in mind when we take a look at the music of the movement, african-american music had a global popularity. many jazz musicians had toured in europe going back to the 1920s and 1930s, including louis armstrong, and it's -- it's -- the civil rights movement is really an international phenomenon in large part because it's happening at the same time as the cold war, and it's happening at the same time as african independence movements. and here you see some images of louis armstrong. louis armstrong was drafted by the state department as a cultural ambassador, and so he was sent all over the world, to africa and eastern europe primarily, as an instrument of cultural diplomacy during the cold war. here you have him playing at the sphinx and the photo on the left is armstrong performing at an orphanage in cairo in the late 1950s. armstrong is someone who is universally popular, and the state department, many people would have criticized the state department in the 1960

dr. king lewis, julian bond were all young men when they were at the forefront of the civil rights movement and i think we need young people not only doing that, but keeping pressure, keeping people grounded and keeping us all focused on a future. we do need i think a new resurgence among young people. >> that creates different parts of accountability as well. living in the 24-hour news cycle, stuff that used to get swept under the rug isn't getting swept under the rug anymore. you have tmz, cnn, every other network that's focused on it, but you have to leverage that and join the young people. that's why i pay attention to the hip-hop generation, because they have the men involved. on the other hand, at least having an imagination to reaching out to the young people. what dr. king, when he talked about the war in vietnam, he said i'm not speaking out against the war in vietnam unless i speak about the violence against the young people. >> the critical point of how you opened up is it a moment

dr. king's sclc. when the sit-ins broke out, she encouraged the young people who were involved to form their own organization, which became sncc. so song pays tribute to ella baker's role as a champion of the youth in the movement, and also represents someone who represents a group-centered grassroots approach to civil rights leadership. this is a live performance in minnesota. >> there's a lot of things going on in the world. there's a lot of freedoms being threatened. think about it. here we go. ♪ we who believe in freedom cannot rest ♪ ♪ we who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes ♪ good. >> now carol and i will sing the verses, and when it's your turn, come in nice and strong. ready? >> whenever you are. ♪ until the killing of black men, black mother's sons ♪ ♪ is as important as the killings of a white man ♪ ♪ a white mother's son ♪ we who believe in freedom cannot fail ♪ ♪ no, no ♪ we who believe in freedom cannot rest ♪ ♪ you know that which touches me most is that i had the chance ♪ ♪

those of us who voted in the spirit of dr. king trusted the american people to also make their choice based on the content of barack's character and competence. and we did not expect to have someone in the white house who would pick up the gauntlet that dr. king dropped beyond what was called for in the presidency. >> you think the expectations were unreasonable? >> not only unreasonable in some instances, they were poorly thought out. we have to realize that barack obama is the president of the united states, not the president of african americans. >> so in a second time he is going to strive to have a majority in congress, which might give him some freedom to do what he would otherwise be inclined to do. and what might that be on behalf of the african american community to satisfy people that he really is living up to some of those expectations? >> i think he would be able to do more in terms of education, target circumstances and educations, as much based on class as race and ethnicity. that would be very difficult for him to do

dr. king's dream and the american promise. we are not in a post-racial america. not yet. [ applause ] we'll be closer to fulfilling that dream when more black and brown children enter kindergarten ready to read. we will have arrived when more children have fathers actively engaged in their lives when more black ben by their mid-30s have college degrees and not criminal records. [ applause ] we will have arrived when our schools are less segregated and less isolated racially when dr. king was assassinated instead of more selling gra gated as they are in fact today. and we will have arrived when an innocent black teenager in a hoodie is not somehow a criminal suspect. [ applause ] the truth is that in the years ahead, america will desperately need your leadership. there are so many battles that you must help fight, and to make sure we win. the poll tests and lit really tests once used to bar blacks from voting, those may be gone, but just since the beginning of 2011, in this past year, 17 states, one therpd of our nation, have passed laws that restrict the right to

early on, very early on, bayard is encouraging dr. king to see linkages between economic justice and racism. he's doing in in the 1950s. he's also encouraging king very early on before anybody else does so, to form alliances with the labor. .. >> he led a memorial march to the education of workers as well. so he encourages king with the labor movement. they give for raising the issue. [applause] >> it seems the book on the grandmother is highly desirable with her relationship with bayard. but is there any movement to public monument of bayard anywhere? >> i would love to see a book on and juliet and jennifer. to never sacrificed unbelievably as well. there is a beautiful letter shortly after jennifer died. it is very moving how they had a perfect union. and he always took bayard as his own. i would love to see that just on their lives. with the second point*. i don't know. >> there are some high-school s named after bayard. saying ku westchester. [laughter] [inaudible] also year the un with a park [applause] and. >> i wanted to ask a quest

it bends not on its own, dr. king said, but because each of us in our own way puts our hand on that arc and bend it in the direction of a more just world. i'm proud the kennedy library is hosting today's conference and recognize and thank all of those who have put together this terrific program. i'm not allowed to say this in public especially in the presence of my friends from the fdr library, but this is, having grown up in beverly, massachusetts, this is my favorite presidential library. [ laughter ] [ applause ] i cannot think of a better day or a better place to mark presidents' day. i want to personally thank all of our speaker, many who traveled far, including one from south africa, to be with us here for these proceedings and a special welcome to those of us watching around the world on c-span. i'm especially pleased to see so many young people and students in the audience today, those of us who lived through the kennedy presidency, now prepared to pass the torch again to a new generation of americans, knowing

. >>> still ahead he marched for justice with dr. kingre than 50 years later he is still on the front lines of the civil rights movement, my conversation with reverend dr. joseph laury, ahead. today is gonna be an important day for us. you ready? we wanna be our brother's keeper. what's number two we wanna do? bring it up to 90 decatherms. how bout ya, joe? let's go ahead and bring it online. attention on site, attention on site. now starting unit nine. some of the world's cleanest gas turbines are now powering some of america's biggest cities. siemens. answers. . >>> we're back on "politicsnation" with a simple question. who actually runs the republican party? this is a serious question. i know that mitt romney will be the nominee, and i know that john boehner is the speaker, but who actually has the power? could it be the mama grizzly. last night her pick for the nebraska primary beat gop candidated backed by rick santorum, mike huckabee, and jim demint. a last minute flood of outside money gave a win to a dark horse candidate, and it's

and hadn't known anything about civil rights background i had had with dr. king and promoting civil disobedience, talking about it at least, since writing a book with my wife on india and gandhi, et cetera. and he said now in ten minutes, tick off the things that i ought to do if i'm president to clean up the damn civil rights mess. so i had my moment. i had my ten minutes. >> what'd you say? >> well, among other things, i said with one stroke of a pen, you can sign the executive order eliminating discrimination in federally assisted housing that the civil rights commission had recommended and was sitting on eisenhower's desk for six months or something like that. with one stroke of a pen. he said i like that. we talked about the problem of the southern legislatures filibustering. he jumped at the idea of executive action. and i had five or six other points. a few days later he called me in and said sergeant shriver has convinced us we should have a civil rights section of the campaign, not just a minority votes section, but a civil rights section that would have

it's yes food. >>> coming up, blocking the vote, this 93-year-old woman marched with dr. king, now her vote has been taken away. it's outrageous, exclusive interview is next. >>> steve king can be added to the voices calling for fairness. king writes, "i don't want to apologize for being rich. i want you to acknowledge that in america, we should all have to pay our fair share. that's called stepping up and not whining about it. "for republicans asking those to pay their fair share, it's like a scary movie, a scene out of the shining. >> come on, the top 1% pay 38% of the taxes in america, how much more do you want them to pay. >> his idea of fairness, at imposing it on ores. >> red rum. >> it's fine to talk about those things in quiet rooms. >> what is in room 1237? >> nothing. there ain't nothing. >> republican tax policy, be afraid, be very afraid. [ donovan ] i hit a wall. and i thought "i can't do this, it's just too hard." then there was a moment. when i decided to find a way to keep going. go for olympic gold and go to college too. [ male announcer ] every day we help st

dr. martin luther king said we can pass all the laws we want. we still have biases and prejudice. how with reeducating the heart to recognize humanity in all people? ernie green, i'll let you have that final word. >> i think we're educating the heart by events like this that really we begin to peel back the cover of the activity that is going on among the presidents and their at administration, and it's important for us to take the story that dr. king's statue didn't appear on the mall overnight, that the number of people who contributed who played a role, the unnamed faces and thousands and thousands of people black and white that had a vision about what this country could could become, that it would be better for its history and that hopefully its history will be brighter than those who played a role in it and i think it really underscores the opportunity for the next generation, kennedy talked about passing the torch. the torch really gets passed because of all of the players that played a role in it, and that would be my last word. >> and that is the last word here except let

as dr. king would suggest. we all share the democratic spaces, even if you have more than i have, but the last person who wanted to have a conversation like this, they shot him down like a dog on a balcony in memphis. to have this conversation, with all due respect to michael sandel, who is going to lead us in that conversation? >> we have to have leaders, but we also have to build, and so does society, between the market on the one hand and the government on the other hand, it institutions of civil society, where people gather together initially in small places, and learn the art, the habit, of civil discourse and democratic discourse an argument and then gradually enlarge the reach, so it is just a choice between markets and consumer identities on the one hand or the government, then there is very the space in between that can cultivate the common life that i think we need, so we need leaders who can inspire, who can elevate our vision, but we also need institutions, educational institutions, unions, various

i'm not that chunky white child on the back of the wall in 1968, when dr. king was giving the mountaintop speech. i was two blocks away when he was assassinated at the lorraine motel. it changed my life. nobody on the planet wants fdr to engage in the anti-lynching legislation more than i do, but let's look at 1934 and let's see what dubois says when fdr calls lynching murder. he's the first president in the history of the united states to call it murder, and w.e.b. dubois editorializes on the front page of "the crisis." fdr does not support the legislation in '35, '36, '37 or '38 when it comes up, by 1938, eleanor roosevelt spends seven days sitting in the gallery of the united states senate, and she's surrounded by civil rights leaders, all people of color. when they ask her what eleanor is doing, she says, "i am bearing witness," and that to me is a powerful, powerful statement. so you have to look at, granted there was no legislation passed, but there were internal policies changed. there was eleanor's outspokenness. there was her literally putting her life

it just didn't -- i mean, part of the problem today is that everybody thinks that dr. king made the speech on the steps. >> and that was it? >> that was it. >> everybody held hands. >> and my hope is that events like this get people to bore down deeper to understand what else was going on and why, you know, we felt we could step forward, and we had the support of family, that we could do something different. >> well, we're going to get to your moment -- big moment in the sunshine in just a minute, ernie green, but did i want to highlight something for people who don't know, because i don't assume everybody knows. emmett till was 14 years old. he's part of the whole lynching thing that was going on. he was lynched in mississippi for allegedly whistling at a white woman. those people that lynched him later said that they did it, but it was, of course, after the trial, and it was a rigged trial, but this was a signifying moment in the lives of so many young men like ernie green to know that if the country is going to change, this has got to stop. so that's an important, very i

dr. king's words there is always the right time to do the right thing.nt elections. so there's always an excuse and it is never the right time if you want to play it safe but it is always the right time if you want to play the history and stand on principals that make this country as wonderfully extraordinary as it is. the politics are wonderful. i was criticized mostly from my own party leaders, democrats, not republicans in 2004 to your point, that i was moving too fast, too soon too quick. but we had to force the issue and put a human face on it. and i have no regrets, we were talking in '04 to a president at the time who is doing exactly what mitt romney is claiming he wants to do and that was george bush, and that needed to be countered with stories of real people's lives. >> interesting you were one of the people that inspired me since i did that panel with you, i have come out for the very same reason putting a human face on it and trying to move forward. >> yeah. >> dr. king that's the one thing that makes me feel better. >> yeah. >> let's talk q

with an attempt to use dr. kingbject of degradation was a erereal -- >> do you think president obama should defend reverend wright more? >> try to distance himself. >> politically we know what he's doing. but do you think reverend wright may be speak out and letting people know he's not happy? >> i suppose so, but i do not note of their relationship but i know it's a source of pain for me to see him use as an object's degradation and manipulation using the media as if he was an enemy of state. it's not fair and it's not true. >> jesse jackson, got to leave it there and check in with you. an interesting statistic, level of statistics on homicide rates. >> 1,700 in afghan in ten years. >> the next time i have you on. >> 55,000 in the country. >> reverend jesse jackson, good to see you. >> thank you, chuck. >>> what's in store this week on wall street? market rundown is next. first, today's trivia question -- which two countries most recently became members of nato? full members. the answer @chucktodd on "the daily run

back and forth, together really is a phenomenal story and it does my heart good to know that when dr. king stood on the steps of the lincoln memorial, he stood on the exact same spot and in my lexicon, the two angels that sat on his shoulder were marianne and eleanor. [ applause ] >> so he did it, fdr and civil rights in 20 minutes. >> we really did it see, did i it. >> thank you very much. we'll try and start the next pan nell literally four or five minutes. we'll bring some chairs up and bring our next group of panelists up. >>> good afternoon, everybody. good morning, late early day, whatever. i always think it's nice if you are marking the occasion, and we are, of president's day, to say a little bit of something about the presidents for whom this day is named. and that's george washington and abraham lincoln, i found something from george washington i thought was appropriate for our conversation. let me share it with you. we should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience. and i think no better wa

dr. king's case it was clearly not true.but fawell by reducing to ethics produces this idea into a certain type of the eggs. you see this on the left which the gospel was only about social justice and only about puritanism. from the religion is very much about who god is and how we worship him appropriately. and the others are derivatives. but if you leave the dogma out the door, then the argument has to be about his stand on it own and i don't think christian ethics specifically are meant intended to send around and that is the key. he actually is feeding the beast in trying to defeat. what was the other -- the good thing. already mentioned anti-semitism in the hunt now political currency on the rink right now. in spite of themselves the falwell lawsuit is a great unanimous supreme court decision we did not intend that we can all celebrate. he did bring this notion that christianity is not about being kind. it's a muscular christianity which you can access much meditation to those of us more on the lefty record as there is

dr. king's case it was clearly not true.but fawell by reducing to ethics produces this idea into a certain type of the eggs. you see this on the left which the gospel was only about social justice and only about puritanism. from the religion is very much about who god is and how we worship him appropriately. and the others are derivatives. but if you leave the dogma out the door, then the argument has to be about his stand on it own and i don't think christian ethics specifically are meant intended to send around and that is the key. he actually is feeding the beast in trying to defeat. what was the other -- the good thing. already mentioned anti-semitism in the hunt now political currency on the rink right now. in spite of themselves the falwell lawsuit is a great unanimous supreme court decision we did not intend that we can all celebrate. he did bring this notion that christianity is not about being kind. it's a muscular christianity which you can access much meditation to those of us more on the lefty record as there is

dr. king had been assassinated in april of that year.ots in anger fled in the ghettos around the country. the feeling on the street was that it was about to hit the fan. hating was the hip thing to do. from streetcorner speeches to campus rallies, had and gone, gone from being the man to being the piece. young black students were trading in their feel-good motown records with the recorded speeches of malcolm x and the angry jazz recordings. i went down to 120 for fifth street in harlem that night. the night the doctor king was assassinated. protesters and writers swarmed the streets clashing with cops, overturning cars, setting trashcan fires and hurling books at -- bricks at white owned businesses. looters ran into the stores and started taking clothing, appliances and whatever else they could carry. everyone looted. in fact most of the crowd continued to chant, the king is dead and black power but it was enough for the cops to start swinging clubs and shooting their pistols and making arrests. a cop grabbed me and threw me against the

dr. king said, mr.s.ed with you, you know the 15th amendment that was added to the constitution in 1870 has really no meaning to african-americans today. we need a voting rights act. that is when selma to montgomery took place and all of the violence you know so much on the edmund fetter bridge that i'm sure john lewis would have talked about today. that is when the selma to montgomery voting rights movement began in earnest. finally in 1965 president johnson called a nationwide press conference to announce he was changing his position. he would support a strong voting rights act. he did that he did that at the peril of a second presidency. he did that at the peril of losing the democratic influence in the south among white voters but he did it because it was the right thing. now we have a voting rights act. when i was in law school 35 years ago, 40 years ago i suppose, there were no african-american elected officials in my great state. today we have some eight or 900 black elected officials, 300 in my

dr. king's case it was clearly not true.but fawell by reducing to ethics produces this idea into a certain type of the eggs. you see this on the left which the gospel was only about social justice and only about puritanism. from the religion is very much about who god is and how we worship him appropriately. and the others are derivatives. but if you leave the dogma out the door, then the argument has to be about his stand on it own and i don't think christian ethics specifically are meant intended to send around and that is the key. he actually is feeding the beast in trying to defeat. what was the other -- the good thing. already mentioned anti-semitism in the hunt now political currency on the rink right now. in spite of themselves the falwell lawsuit is a great unanimous supreme court decision we did not intend that we can all celebrate. he did bring this notion that christianity is not about being kind. it's a muscular christianity which you can access much meditation to those of us more on the lefty record as there is

dr. martin luther king's assassination, 125 american cities exploded in flames. the simultaneous outbreak of urban rebellions in 1967. the 1967 summer of discontent was in the words of "life" magazine headlines predictable insurrection. between july 12th and july 17th, 1967, newark residents experienced six days of rioting, looting and destruction that left 26 dead and hundreds of men, women and children injured. the black community was rendered powerless and disenfranchised through exclusion from meaning representation and police brutality. the conklin hall liberator saw what happens when a city brutally institutionally and systemically disrespects its residents. unfortunately, two years after the rebellion, the fundamental racial economic and equalities of the city of newark were not reconciled. on the rutgers university campus, these were not even publicly acknowledged let alone addressed. in 1967, the black nationalist element of the black freedom movement inspired black students on the college campuses across the united states to claim a new unapologetic but

minister from montgomery, alabama, speaking in pine bluff, arkansas, and the night that i graduated, dr. king came up, sat with my family and was in the audience, so, you know, this -- all of this connection -- connectivity of the charlene story and others, and we all, you know, were doing our individual thing, trying to improve what we thought was the best options for us. >> now understanding it's 56 years later and you have the benefit of hindsight, let's go back to your young self and for history sake in this conference you have to answer the question of were you frightened? >> sure, i was fright new england. >> now there's a situation that now all these troops are up to protect. >> you we weren't frightened. we were frightened on the side of the unknown. when the governor called out the national guard to keep us out, yeah, we were frightened, and -- and the unknown was, you know, will i complete school that year? i didn't know whether it was going to collapse on me, but when president eisenhower sent the troops, i mean, that sent one hell of a message. the most difficult times for us is w

at the same time, dr. king butler noted that it was too soon to know how the african-american community would respond. but seven days remight haved, they are back. dr. alvita king is the pastoral associate at priest for life and author of "life at all costs." and profess butler is the professor of universal studies at university of pennsylvania. radio station in new york, they do very, very well. the day after the president make this is announcement, hear what callers are saying. >> no question about it, i have been doing radio for a long time. whenever i talk about this, i am shocked by how many people call up and are upset with the idea of supporting same-sex marriage. >> if you have a kid, would you want your kid marry ago would you want a boy marrying another guy -- >> if he was gay. >> marry another girl? >> i want my child to be happy. >> emotions, it is not the same, though. >> jennifer, you will not vote for obama because of what he just said. >> definitely not. >> why? >> i don't know. i have never lik

but for many lillehammer, dr. king, ellen baker, they were the ones in selma and mississippi and the ones pushing forward to give the president something to respond to come and i think that after the inauguration a lot of people -- not everybody but to many of us sat down and thought that the past the finish line when relief was the starting line come in november of 2008. >> host: the environment is another place you raise criticisms. what is your take on what happened in the keystone pipeline? >> guest: it got a better. [laughter] the keystone pipeline is the really bad idea. that's my assessment. it would has proposed take the dirtiest most awful scraping the bottom of the bucket nasty pauley carbon and run down through america's heartland over the farm land, offers to the gulf coast so that it could be refined and shipped to china inhofe. because of the kind of toxic stuff is it's very corrosive. we've had a lot of oil spills. you would really be risking the american people to do it to benefit a foreign corporation