dr. king's passing you never got married? the crowds like, they like -- oohh, did he ask coretta scott king that? she shifted in her seat and said well, tavis, let me ask you, why are you married? the place erupted. that last life track went on for three minutes. i blushed. who knew she did comedy? she busted my chops so good. >> did you answer? >> no. she gave me an answer action bust my chops a little bit. her answer was that martin was her life partner and god had given her the vocation of working with him is used to on that mission whether martin is here or not. >> is a little bit of coretta scott king and she died in -- >> and the bush administration. >> i think a lot of people do not know me and they think i am a cold and uncaring person. that -- i was just martin's wife. i try to be my best self and be satisfied with that. and if people do not know it, maybe they will eventually know it. it does not bother me. >> this probably is not there right now but you deal in the book with his affairs. why did you do it? >> dr. ki

dr. king. and he said to me many times that he believed that speech beyond vietnam put a target on his back. when dr. king calls america the greatest purveyor of violence, it was a damning speech. he says about america. mr. harding dies believing he was partly responsible for putting that target on his back. you talk to and young and tta scott king.re who i had a chance to interview and all of those notes i've been keeping and saving for a moment like this when the book would be written. you were three years old when he was shot and killed. can you remember the first time you knew there was a martin luther king? >> she was certainly in my conscious before i turned 12. we discuss something prior occasion. i wrote about this in my memoir. the defining moment is a brutal beating i received in indiana. the brutal beating i received at age 12, i was in the hospital for a couple of weeks in traction as a 12-year-old kid. i cannot understand why it happened. >> who beat you? >> my father. >> my fathe

and i have read a lot of dr. king he's so explicit that nonviolence is the way to effects the change. it's not to say you're lazy and you're not getting out there and working on it. you have to be persistent, you have to march at times, you have to take inconvenience into your life. but destroying your community, i think that's crazy, nobody's saying you shouldibilin't raise voices. >> i also think its a pretty dangerous message to come out and say this is what democracy looks like. that is when there's rioting in the streets and businesses being destroyed, i don't think that's the right message to put out there, and i would actually ask you, juan, i think dr. king if he were alive today, he would be saddened not just for the town of ferguson, but he would be saddened about race decade after his passing. >> we still have this -- here's colonel allan west giving his viewpoint. >> this is once again being part of the grievance industry and the race-baiting industry that continues to keep the black community in a situati

dr. king's death. so this organization it starts to become apparent as marchers begin to descend on washington in 1965 and 1966. they came from the west, the northwest, the midwest, northeast, and of course the south. and i hope that in his comments and remarks that carlos might speak a little bit about his experience on the caravan from the west. i remember some interesting stories that he told, some of which are in the book. and the most photographed of the caravans, however, was the mule train, as you can see here, a classic symbol of southern poverty, sharecroppers, black southern poverty. and what this did was, inadvertently or perhapsed a very tently that this campaign was one more civil rights cam pain and not the multirights cam pain that the sclc and dr. king originally sought. by using this symbol over and over again and having a reporter, it seems just cover and follow the mule train, the national press reinforced this idea that this is really about southern poverty, not about midwest earn p

dr. martin luther king, "the most notorious liar in the country." >> dr. king, what is your reaction to the charges made by j edgar hoover? >> well, i was quite shocked and surprised to learn of this statement for mr. hoover questioning my integrity. frankly, i don't understand what motivated the statement. >> as martin luther king prepared to go to oslo to received the nobel peace prize 50 years ago, the fbi ramped up its efforts to discredit the civil rights leader. we will speak to the yale professor who uncovered an unredacted copy of the fbi's so-called suicide letter when -- to king. the letter threatened to expose king's alleged extramarital affairs if he did not commit suicide. and then, no debate and the new war. one in 89. that is number of antiwar voices indicted on the high profile sunday talk shows to talk about u.s. attacks on iraq in syria. all that and more, coming up. welcome to dem, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. missouri governor jay nixon has declared a state of emergency ahead of the grand jury's decision on whether to indic

martin luther king iii is the eldest son of dr. kingocate himself as well as a minister. thank you so much, mr. king, for taking the time to join us and help us sort through this complex moment. first up, what is in your view the correct lesson for protesters today to learn from what dr. king championed? >> well, i think the correct lesson is that when you engage in nonviolent protests and you endure that victory can come. the reality is, we live in a society that is violently charged. we have to create a society that is more nonviolent, which really goes to the heart of some of -- not this civic issue, but some of the violence that occurs in our nation. 7 out of 10 television programs are violent. many of our video games are violent. so we are living in a culture that is promoting violence. and yet, really, as a human being, we should be at a much higher level operating from a nonviolent perspective. what my dad and his team taught us is that through nonviolent direct action that ultimately you can be successful. and it's clear to me t

dr. martin luther king jr.'s "poor people's campaign," african-american into -- and chicano activist came to washington, d.c. but it is largely remembered as an african-american movement. this event is part of the american folklife center at the library of congress to mark national hispanic -- heritage month. >> i should say that my name is steve winick, a writer at the american folklife center. we are presenting this symposium entitled "organizing across the boundaries, strategies and coalitions in the struggle for civil rights and social justice." this first presentation is called "when poor people marched on washington, the 1968 campaign in black and brown." i will introduce the speakers, and then they can come up and begin the discussion. so, the first person i will introduce is gordon -- who is an -- gordon mantler who is an assistant professor at george washington university specializing in the history and the rhetoric of 20th century social justice movements and the african-american and latino experience

dr. king's death. so, this disorganization -- it starts to become apparent as marchers began to descend on washington through the nine caravans modeled after the 1965.mery march in west,ame from the northwest, midwest, northeast, and of course the south. i hope in his comments that carlos might speak about his experience on the caravan from the west. i remember some interesting stories he told, some of which are in the book. photographed of the caravans, however, was the mule train. a classic civil of southern poverty, sharecroppers, even black southern property. -- poverty. what this did was inadvertently reinforced the notion that the campaign was one more black civil rights campaign, and not the multiracial campaign that scls and dr. king had thought. by having a reporter cover and ressow the mule train, the p reinforce the idea that this is really about southern poverty. not about westerner midwesterner northeastern, puerto ricans and native americans. upother symbol that ended distracting from the

dr. king the day before he was slain courage to support black businesses. dr. king wasn't fighting for economic empowerment, not just basic human rights, he was fighting for our businesses, not just the right to support everyone else's. don't businesses. is okay to say black and businesses in the same sentence. [applause] >> this is a quota won't here, all we have got to strengthen black institutions. i call upon you to take care money out of the bank's downtown and deposit your money, we want to have a movement in memphis and do what we are doing. put your money is there. you have six or seven insurance companies in memphis. we want to have been a state that your insurance there. when thing, he says he died in memphis, he said this the day before he was ordered. number 2 he referenced six seven insurance companies in memphis in 1968. we don't have one in the whole country, not one property and casualty insurer. you can't find a public life insurance company doling out $10,000 funeral coverage

our noble dr. king wasn't fighting for economic empowerment to not just basic human rights but fighting for our businesses, not just the right to support everyone else's, black owned businesses. is the key to see black and businesses in the same sentence. this is what police a year, and will see it in the book. we have got to strengthen black institutions. i call on you to take your money out of the bank's downtown and deposit your money and we want to have a movement in memphis, tell you to follow what we had doing, put your money there. you have six or seven insurance companies in memphis. we want to have -- take out your insurance fair. two things i want to talk about, you know he died in memphis, he said this the day before he was murdered and he was the sixth or seventh insurance company in memphis in 1968. we don't have one now. in the whole country. not one property and casualty insurer. you can't find a life insurance company doling out $10,000 funeral and royal coverage but that is it and they

it's a story about dr. king that most americans goent know and some issues he faced starting with will hether or not hefrs g to come out against the vietnam war. and he uses this line in the text and i found myself wrestling with this again, back to watching your film. he said there's some evil in the best of us and some good in the worst of us.xl so that we are not human and divine, we're just human. so m call for human. woe're fallible. we make mistakes. the same i wrestle with watching this film. if i had been nina, and, again, i goent want to give the movie away, if i had made that decision, how would i have lived with myself after that. put another way, how do you not beat yourself up for that decision if you think you had no other choice. >> exactly. i think it's different for every person. i think, for 34rksnina, she daus or sonsed crossed that boundary and it wasn't a slippery slope. after all, i'm not asking jake too much. i don't want to know too much. and thank god i can hold onto my apartment and th

can't imagine. ♪ was it caesar chavez ♪ some say dr. kinge ♪ ♪ that if you've been to jail for justice, you're in good company ♪ ♪ have you been to jail for justice ♪ ♪ i want to shake your hand ♪ just sitting in and writing down ♪ ♪ have you sung a song for freedom ♪ ♪ have you been to jail for justice ♪ ♪ then you're a friend of mine ♪ hey, you law-abiding citizens ♪ ♪ come listen to this song ♪ laws were made by people ♪ but people can be wrong ♪ once unions were against the wall ♪ ♪ but slavery was fine ♪ women were denied the vote ♪ while the children worked the mine ♪ ♪ the more you study history ♪ the less you can deny it ♪ a rotten law stays on the books ♪ ♪ till folks with guts defy it ♪ have you ever been to jail for justice ♪ ♪ and songs were sung for freedom ♪ ♪ have you been to jail ♪ have you been to jail ♪ well, the law's supposed to serve us ♪ ♪ but so is the police ♪ but when the system fails ♪ it's time for us to speak with our piece ♪ ♪ we must be ever vigilant for justice to prevail ♪ ♪ so give courage to your conviction

dr. king's life as he clashed with the press, the president, and leaders of the civil rights movement. >>avis smiley, your book, "death of the king," it says there is a story hidden about mr. king. what is it? >> from april 1967 to april 1968, it shifted against him because of his opposition to the vietnam war. i have seen three biographers on here before. without the heavy lifting by the historians, i cannot have written a death of a king. no one has ever focused on the text. they have not focused on the last year of his life april 4, 1967 to 1968, one year to the date. what is the last year like? how does he navigate? how is america treating him? he left five years after i have a dream. he involved in the five-year period. >> into the back, you say you didn't 19 interviews for this book. which one did you learn the most? >> good question. i suspect there is nothing like talking to correct coretta scott king. i talked to coretta scott king many times. mr. hardy passed away who wrote the vietnam speech for dr. king. he believed and he said to me many times that he believed that speech bey

the same t-shirt that had president obama on, they had dr. king, i have a dream, realized.k it was a misguided tampa at us to reach for something, our humanity, to be -- to be just validated. i mean, and i think it speaks to the injury that we live with every day as black people. i want to speak to something that you said. while i do think the media has a very, very strong voice and trajectory of where we go as a people and how we're represented as black men, i think that we would be remiss if we didn't look back and say maybe it started before. maybe this -- >> absolutely. >> right. maybe the roots of why young black men are villainized and are seen as threats go back to a time where we were being lynched for looking at women or to saying hi or -- we're talking about the branches, but we really need to focus on the root when it comes to the injury of slavery. there's a book that talk about post traumatic slave syndrome. and how it's all connected. i don't think you can separate what's happening in hip-hop culture and music and the celebration of murder and the celebration

one year earlier, dr. king has delivered his i have a dream speech and the f.b.i. has named the most dangerous negro of communist influence does exist in the negro movement and can influence large masses of people. it seems hoover and the f.b.i. were convinced that martin luther king were trying to bring about a communist overthrow of the united states. and their attempts to discredit king went far beyond just calling him a liar. the f.b.i. placed bugs in king's hotel room, tapped his phones, bugged his apartment in at lan that. while hoover found out very little about subterfuge, he did begin to learn about king's extramarital affairs. and that brings us to one of the most shames of the american government. today, the "new york times" published a full, unredakted letter sent to king in 1964. it's an utterly shocking document. a letter accuses king of being "a filthy, ash normal animal who's engauged in sexual or jills at odds with his claims to morality with dirty, evil companions, male and female. the calling king a great fraud and pleat lieblt. the truth is it w

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>> you do know that when dr. king was alive we had the watts riots and the newark riots and the detroit riots and chicago. and there was a a report that determined a body of pain and fuel of poverty which is a weapons of mass destruction precipitated by police action triggered those riots and that police behavior should -- the police should have blacks and whites, men and women to be credible. they should reflect in the judges, don, as well. but beyond that, the issue of unemployment, unemployment for blacks is three times the national rate. that matters. blacks are ten times more likely to be arrested. that matters. and for juries to look in the face of killed young blacks and say that man was justified in letting them go through, that's a bitter pill to swallow. i hope we will have enough rational sense to speak above our pain and be non-violent but also be consistent, persistent and been tenacious to get relie to our misery. >> reverend jeffsy jackson, thank you for joining us on cnn. >> thank you, don. >> we'll be

you don't want dr. kinged nonviolent, direct action, you've tried to kill the dream. okay, here's a taste of the nightmare. [ sirens ] >> the outrage could not be contained. fires burned the cities of america. >> washington, chicago, detroit, boston, new york -- these are just a few of the cities in which the negro anguish over dr. king's murder expressed itself in violent destruction. >> i remember coming back to washington two or three days after king had been killed. you're thinking, what am i seeing here? this is the united states of america. and there are machine guns on the steps of the capitol? >> 100 cities raged with riot. 20,000 are arrested. >> people were in open revolt. sirens wailing. people screaming. and it shook everyone, black and white, to the core. >> nothing could be more desecrating to the memory of martin luther king than to use his death as an excuse to engage in violence. >> there was a faith and spirit vacuum. when you find people who have lost that hope, fear tends to fill that vac

dr. king said that the arc of the universe is long, but it bends towards justice. we have to bend the ark, and moments likes these, as tragic as they are, we would regret not taking the opportunity to reassess who we are as america american citizens. the truth is that there are two distinctio distinct justice systems, one pore white people anfor white people and one for black people. during dr. king's life we could not have imagined a criminal justice system with racial contradictions as deep and as pervasive and as what we're dealing with right now. it's actually worse now than then over the last 30 years america's prison industrial complex has mushroomed. african-americans are 13% of the nation's population and 50% of the prison population. we're focused on this issue of police brutality, but it must be seen within the wider context of america's prison industrial complex. this massive system of arresting young black men over the last 30 years has created a situation in which they are criminalized and stigmatized, seen as public enemy number one, and so sometimes

dr. king's church. but the truth is dr. ing's life we could not have imagined the criminal justice system with racial contradiction as deep and as pervasive and as what we're dealing with now. it's actually worse now than then. over the past 0 years america's prison, the industrial complex has 13% of the nation's population. anis 50% of the prison population. it must be seen in the wider context of america's prison industrial complex. this massive system of arresting young black men over the last 30 years has created a situation in which they're criminalized and stigmatized, and seen as public enemy number one. sometimes they're shot and killed by police officers, sometimes by night guardsmen in a neighborhood posing as police officers. it's the same problem, and we got to deal with it. >> reverend, demonstrations--are you holding a vigil on monday, the best with that, and it's great to see you again. and we'll have you on the program to talk about ways forward here in seizing this moment. >> we have a vigil at ebenezer mond

this week on "q&a," our guest is tavis smiley, out with his new was the book "death of a king: the real story of dr. martin luther king jr.'s final year." it explores the tumultuous and difficult final year of dr. king's life as he clashed with the press, the president, and leaders of the civil rights movement. >> tavmi

i'm reminded of dr. king for whom we now have an african-american monument or a monument of an african-american hero on the national mall of the united states of washington d.c.. i've had the honor of signing the permit and moving a project along in my time as secretary of the interior. if you visit washington and you go and see the most famous quotes from dr. king one of them is about the ark of the universe were he says the mark of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice. the ark of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice. the issue of immigration and children and families on the border is one such issue, one such issue. you all who will hang on to the edge of that arc to try to help this country and its leaders understand the importance of having a system of immigration reform that makes sense to this country is one of those important imperatives that will fulfill the vision of dr. king that arc of the moral universe bends towards justice. thank you very much. [applause] >>

dr. king talked about the fierce urgency of now. given all that is happening in our nation we need to move forward on reforms. >> the new york city public advocate i would like to get your reaction to the gatherings in times square. do you expect more demonstrations like this? >> last night throughout the nation in 120 cities there were protests. i'm urging that most of the protests be peaceful. i recognize that protests can change things but we need organize, we need get involved in civic activities. we need to vote to ensure we engage in smart policing. we need community policing going forward. we need to talk primarily about arresting individuals for violent crimes as opposed to nonviolent crimes. you know, i witnessed recently an individual getting arrested for ridings his bicycle on a sidewalk. i believe the waste of resources in the city of new york. and that's what we should be doing. and last but not least, we should be, again, implementing non-lethal force like decadtase. and communication. communication helps in a lot of w

kent state where i was reading about the outcome of all that and you talk about assassination of dr. king, i wonder from a police perspective, what had been learned from all that in the aftermath and how police in ferguson should be preparing right now. >> it's very interesting you bring that up. one of the things that i noticed as a police officer in jackson county missouri in the '80s, '80s through the '90s, one thing we need to look at is revisit policies and procedures. many policies and procedures need to be revisited. >> in terms of dealing with protesters or just in general as a police officer? >> in general as a police officer. the training that is given to officers, how often is that revisited? how often is that brought up to speed, up to date? i used to love "the andy griffin show" but you can't be andy griffin in these days and times. it's a different mentality. we're dealing with social media. we're dealing with all of these different modern day components that has to be taken into consideration when you go out and try to do your job effectively as a police officer. you can't

because here's the other piece, ali, april 3rd, 1968, the night before dr. king was killed, we have all seen that speech, i've been to the mountaintop. that was a 47 minnesota speech. and in that speech, that's what he talked about. >> the last days of martin luther king, he spoke about the very same problems that we're speaking about today. economic inequality. and wage inequality and things, and we can focus on ferguson, with michael brown and darren wilson, but this is the kind of thing that we can see, eleanor, happening in any part of the country, because these circumstances exist, particularly in suburban areas, that are now poorer than they were because they're heavily industrialized. and the people don't have the same hope that you would hope that they have. >> the circumstances are happening everywhere, we have seen the buicks of the police, and our young mening killed. and every week, we're hearing of new instances, so this is a national emergency, it a national problem, and that's why a boycott of black friday is national, and throughout this entire co

. >> he worked on yours and worked with me on my "dr. king" book. but yours is the filthy truth. little bit different. >> i think my fan are going to enjoy it -- fans are going to enjoy it. >> i think your fans will enjoy it. which leads me to gask, when - this is not a critique, just a question. when, where and how did provocation -- because this is a provocative title, "the filthy truth," i would expect nothing less from you. when, where, and how did provocation become such a central piece to how you express yourself artistically? >> well, you know, i've been asked this in a lot of different ways, why my act is the way it is. when i look at the world, the '50s were nice, the '60s were nice. but as the worldesque%la esquee je escalates, i'm talking about human behavior between men and women. that's what i like to talk about on stage because that's how i make people laugh at themselves. when i take these sexual things and paint these bigger than life cartoonish, comedic pictures. that's what i like to do. and i kill them with it. there's nobody that can do it like that. i've had

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i went there with dr. king as part of restore the dream 2014 program, and i was shocked and amazed how many normal folk, black and white -- we had a wonderful prayer vigil. 500 residents, black, white, the whole cross-section of the community. not black panther party that had their own agenda and see this as an opportunity to get on stage, but real people, real people that have hopes, dreams and want peace within their community -- neil: and there are more of them, more of them -- >> absolutely. neil: niger, thank you, my friend, very, very much. back with katrina pearson who's done yeoman's work with me as a legal mind and just a good studier of what we see tonight. tomorrow. you're seen these incidents before, as have i. does the dust settle, does the, on this thanksgiving week, people just cool down, calm down, or do a lot of these people rioting feel they have nothing to be thagful for? >> i think some of them might, but i do also think it will calm down. the weather is going to be changing and getting wors

dr. alveda, thank you. have a great thanksgiving. alveda king. all right, the number of businesses burned to the ground and hidden treasures among them. here's what that shop looked like before last night's protests. very nice. right? here's how it looks right now following the protests. how do you build after that? what do you do after that? owner janise on the phone with us now. >> i haven't thought about it. i didn't think my business would be burned to the ground. i don't remember this happening in my store. the last time the looting happened, everything was in place. so i'm just shocked. neil: so when you hear protesters saying we're trying to make a statement. we're trying to let authorities know this decision was bad, anything associated with this town, any institution, any business by extension, i guess they're saying yours included is bad. what do you say? >> i say judge a tree by the fruit it bears. i have customers who believe into my store who call me up crying. i have customers come into my store before it happened and say a lot of p

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talk about dr. king. let's give credit to the good people, don.0 trainings with people in the weeks leading up begging people, teaching people. those people are heartbroken tonight because they put in the work. >> to this morning. it's been a long night. >> right, this morning. >> i don't disagree with you on that, van, but we would be disingenuous in saying what we saw last night was peaceful. >> and there are a couple other things people may not have noticed. i've never seen african-american youth with those anonymous masks on. >> what is your observation about that? you think there's something interest. you think this was -- you think this was led by anarchists? >> it's hard to know that for sure but it's unusual for cull dhour jump white to black. usually you have african-american kids, they like hip-hop. white kids like hip-hop. sag their pants, white kids sag their pants. usually culture moves from black to white. it's been that way since elvis presley. last night you saw a white cultural phenomenon, those guy fawkes masks being worn by afri

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. >> you heard someone behind the camera saying this is justice dr. king got to be spinning in his grave if that is what justice looks like that tramples on the martyrs of the civil rights movement that did struggle for real issues they're trying to overcome. you've got thugs and punches and hoodlums in the street and saying this is justice? in 1992 and 1965 when l.a. went through riots here similar hoodlumism and people looting and vandalizing stores and acting frankly like idiots >> people say they don't believe in the system. they say blacks are targeted more than whites and have evidence with respect to traffic stops 1, 2, couple incidents in the past cite by the the media in build up to this case they say they just don't believe the prosecutor tried his hardest. >> i think we need some leadership to emerge from this situation. people who can talk to the main stream in the african american community, that can discuss facts like the prosecutor did tonight. i thought he gave a great civics lesson to viewers but you need someone that is going to listen to

dr. martin luther king, jr., if he were alive today, he would issue an appeal for nonviolent protests, right? >> absolutely. and all of us are issuing the same appeal. i want to applaud michael brown's parents. i've gotten to meet them. they were at the united nations making a plea. they have a heart of peace. they have a heart of justice. they just simply want justice for their son and i stand alongside of them. i also stand alongside of them and you, wolf, watch these stories, that we must have peaceful protests because many of these are young people. i want them to live. i want them to have an opportunity to continue to peacefully protest and have an opportunity to see just results in the michael brown case. >> all right. well those are powerful words that we hope that the demonstrations are peaceful, assuming we don't know what's going to happen with that grand jury, but if he's not indicted, there's plenty of opportunity in this country for peaceful demonstrations. people can get their views out there. what worries me and you, a tiny handful of agitators who could get violent and that w

. >> you heard someone behind the camera saying this is justice dr. kingas got to be spinning in his grave if that is what justice looks like that tramples on the martyrs of the civil rights movement that did struggle for real issues they're trying to overcome. you've got thugs and punches and hoodlums in the street and saying this is justice? in 1992 and 1965 when l.a. went through riots here similar hoodlumism and people looting and vandalizing stores and acting frankly like idiots >> people say they don't believe in the system. they say blacks are targeted more than whites and have evidence with respect to traffic stops 1, 2, couple incidents in the past cite by the the media in build up to this case they say they just don't believe the prosecutor tried his hardest. >> i think we need some leadership to emerge from this situation. people who can talk to the main stream in the african american community, that can discuss facts like the prosecutor did tonight. i thought he gave a great civics lesson to viewers but you need someone that is going to listen

one way out, the clear suggestion is that dr. king commit suicide. tor of the fbi, jay hoover, made no secret that he hated king. he fought harder than ever and hit back at hoover directly. when the fbi director called him a liar in public he hit back. >> well, i was quite shocked and surprised to learn of this statement from mr. hoover questioning my integrity. and very frankly, i don't understand what motivated the statement. the only thing that i can see is that mr. hoover is probably faltering under the awesome responsibilities, complexities and demands of his very important office. >> i remember discussing the letter with martin luther king iii, but now it has surfaced. it only brings home the sacrifice, pain, set-ups and all kinds of entrapments people endured to get some of the rights we enjoyed. it should make us hold onto them and be aggressive about making sure their sacrifice was not in vain. thank you for joining us. "hardball" starts right now. >> should we just get out of iraq? let's play hardball. good evening, i'm chris matthews in was

the leaders and face of the movement were all christians put dr. king wouldn't have been successful without the participation of the jews. in philadelphia, mississippi the three kids that got killed during freedom summer one was african-american and the other two were jews. >> host: freedom summer '64. >> guest: that is part of what the activity is going on. the 50th anniversary of the civil rights act and the 50 anniversary of freedom summer that led to the act. next year we will celebrate whatever led to the '65 voting rights. we are going to be -- we are already planning that. john lewis and i have had a lot of discussion son on what we can do to celebrate this. one thing would be to get congress to support the effectiveness of the voting act. >> host: do you remember where you were when lbj signed the civil rights act? >> guest: 10% of the money in the law had to go where 20% of the population or more was under the poverty level for 30 years. we work on thes things every day to address the issue of under and unemployment and to try to reach people w

represents a seven-day 120-mile journey for justice, and it invokes the civil rights history, and where dr. king spoke to the conscience of the country. what we are seeking is really justice for a grieving family and systemic reform for an outraged country. >> okay. the seven days -- i know it would not take 120 -- you could do 120 miles in a lot faster time than seven days, so what else do you have planned along the way? >> absolutely. we are commencing the marches every day with a meeting at the washington metropolitan zion church for the first four days at roughly 6:00 in the morning, and we will return to that church in the evening at 7:00 after marching between 17 and 22 miles a day, and then in the second half of the journey, we will be marching, i should say, going back to quinn chapel in jefferson city, missouri. so we are marching from ferguson to jefferson city, from the hometown of michael brown to the hometown of governor nixon. we are trying to change the way in which police officers engage their communities, because the challenge of racial profile something really a generational as

this is an overuse, but dr. king has to be spinning in his grave.if that is what justice looks like it tramples over the martyrs of the civil rights movement that struggled for real things, real racism and real issue these were trying to overcome. you have thugs and punks and hoodems in the street and -- hood lemes and they are saying this 1 justice. this is what i remember in 1992 and 1965 when l.a. went through the big riots. similar high school -- hooliganism and frankly people acting like idiot. >> as a police officer and somebody who worked in law enforcement your whole life, the people say they don't believe in the system. they say that the blacks are targeted more than the whites are in ferguson and they have documentary evidence to prove it, in particular with respect to traffic stops. 24r have been one, two, a couple of incidents in the past of questionable police behavior cited in the media to the build up of the case. they say they just don't believe this prosecutor tried his hardest. your thoughts? >> i think we need some leadership to e

look at the history of african-americans and the nation to move from a thing-oriented society, as dr. kingaid, to a people-oriented society. i think we have to have the conversation about the truth around race, what can do to improve and really bringing people together outside of the sensationalization and the notion of fear. we've had an us versus them mentality going on. >> and what we're seeing now is protesters across the country taking to the streets. trying to get that message back. it was muddied by the agitators who wanted to get on the streets in ferguson. but the peaceful protesters for the most part are trying to get that message out. the reality of being blahhing in this country. what is that reality? >> there's this unknown pressure that most people face. so if i am not black or african-american, i sometimes may speak from a place of bridged positioning without understanding the day to day struggle of what it's like to be profiled. even as an african-american woman with a ph.d. there are certain places i go where people will profile me or won't acknowledge my presence. so agai