dr. martin luther king, jr.. [cheers] [applause] >> dr. i am happy to join with you today and what will go down in history as a greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. [cheers] [applause] five score years ago, a great american and whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the emancipation proclamation. this momentous decree came giving like to hope of millions of negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. it came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. but 100 years later, the negro still is not free. 100 years later, the life of a negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. 100 years later, the negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. 100 years later -- [applause] the negro is still languished in the corners of american society and finds himself an exile in his own land. we've come here to remind america of the still urgency of now, now is the time to rise f

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dr. martin luther king junior's i have a dream speech talked about the civil rights movement and shared insightis friend, dr. kick and told students if king could pass on a metsage it could be a call for high profile americans to take action on gun violence. >> i love you jay-z and kanye well. i love you awful these people. i know sean penn you're doing great things down in haiti and hello, does the fire, house is on nir america. where are you? we need you. >> what a privilege for students today. >> oh, my goodness. >> the price of gasoline is taking on a percentage of budgets these days. >> it's amazing how much money we spend on energy. americans spend on average $2900 per year. that is almost 4% of our pretax income. today's news is a bit strus traitd since using less gasoline in 2012. higher gas prices outweig]b= savings throughout those reduced consumption methods. a second report from union of concerned scientists found they'll spend as much on gas as the cost of the vehicle. motorists who purchase a electric vehicle could get a tax brake under a measure introduced today. it would provide

dr. martin luther king and his dream and some of the issues that we were dealing with over 40 years ago areof the same issues that we are dealing with today. and i'm so honored to have dr. claiborne carson here today to talk to us about some of those issues. he is unmatched in terms of his expertise about dr. king and has made sure that his dream and his words and the education that we have from dr. king stays alive for generations to come. so, this is truly an amazing event today. dr. king in 1967 asked, where do we go from here? and today we're still asking that same question. where do we go from here? well, we still have people suffering in our community, people in the african-american community. where do we go from here when we have lost numbers of african americans in san francisco? where do we go from here?

dr. martin luther king jr.nization led 600 peaceful nonviolent protesters attempting to march from selma to montgomery to dramatize the need for voting rights protection in the state of alabama, throughout the south, and our nation. as we crossed the edmund pettus bridge, we were met by state troopers who shot us with tear gas, mao beat us with nightsticks and trampled us with horses. i was hit on the head and suffered a concussion on the bridge. 17 of us went to the hospital on that day, the good samaritan hospital in downtown selma. just eight days later, president lyndon johnson introduced the voting rights act, and later, on august 6th, 1965, he signed that act into law. >> that was congressman john lewis, democrat of georgia who led the march on the edmund pettus bridge in selma that day in 1965. he was speaking about that experience today on the steps of the supreme court. as the conservative majority on the court seemed to indicate a willingness to at least considering dismantling the pilars of the votin

dr. martin luther king once said, "the ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." on climate change, we have settled the scientific controversy.[applause] what remains is how we respond to the challenge. now i know washington can't solve this global problem alone, but we must embrace our role as first responders, as our children's health is in clear and immediate danger. we must also embrace our role as entrepreneurs and pioneers, ensuring that economic solutions to climate change begin here. companies in this state are already moving forward, and we will not, will not, hand over our destiny to lead the world in clean energy, to any state or to any nation. [applause] we don't deny science in washington, we embrace it. we do not follow technological innovation, we lead it. [applause] and we will not pass up a golden opportunity to create jobs. we need these clean energy jobs that work for the long haul. they will be in bellingham at the itec solar company. in seattle at macdonald-miller, a

dr. martin luther king.n told that there were men looking to kill him that night. and they drove up to a house, and bill and king were staying in the house together with a group of other people. bill told the story that people were petrified that night. i mean, they thought that the house was going to bbombed, and they darkened the house so there were no lights at all. and he was afraid for his life. and king must have sensed this fear in the room. and he walked over to a piano and started to play "this little light of mine," and the whole group just started to sing this song, and they sang songs all through the night. and bill said at the end of this time, it was like there was nothing to be afraid of. i mean, he himself, a non-religious person, was moved by this music and himself strengthened by it. [light piano music] [explosion] [folk guitar strumming] ♪ it was back in 1942, ♪ i was a member of a good platoon. ♪ (seeger) plato was supposed to have said, "it's very dangerous for the wrong kind of music to

dr. martin luther king, jr. gave a lecture today. he co-wrote the i have a dream speech.ay the professor offed a glimpse of his part. >>> 49ers back home a lut of fans there to -- a lot of fans there to greet them. >> that was nice. the rest of the country is thinking maybe 49ers are winiers. complaining too much about -- whiners. complaining too much about the refereeing. baltimore, long before the 49ers returned to the bay area, second guessers were coming out of the wood work. wondering why the final three plays were passes. started at the 5-yard line. 3rd down play, number 22, smith rips the ball loose. this 4th down play, though, was, well, it was over thrown here. comes up here. on this one. jim harbaugh was pleading for pass interference and referred the refs blew the call but there were what, 7 penalties called in the game. most players knew it shouldn't have come down to that. >> we had a chance and we didn't close out and it came down to that. they battled. we put ourselves in a hole, we fought back. offense didn't put it in. not on them, it is on us, they put u

dr. martin luther king talk about those big jet planes can't get off the ground without a ground crew. >>t makes everything run perfectly and smoothly. >> the path began with audrey's own modeling career in new york city. >> i was born, bread, toasted, jellied, jammed and honeyed in harlem. i've always enjoyed fashion, art, culture because it seemed i was always 6 feet tall, i started modeling. >> she became one of the first african-americans hired by blooming dale's as an assistant buyer. >> the head woman of resources said i want to see audrey smoltz. they pointed me out to this woman. oh, no, that can't be her. because of the color of my skin, she tried to say, oerks you don't want this job. and i told her, yes, i want the job. >> her growing knowledge of fashion helped her land a pivotal position as commentator and coordinator of the ebony fashion fair, fostering her desire to go into bilz for herself. >> a entrepreneur is a person who takes risks. i mean sometimes calculated and sometimes -- i'm going to jump into 20 feet of water. >> taking risks, both calculated and spontaneous, th

dr. martin luther king, taylor branch is here to talk about his new book "the king years:istic moments in the civil rights movement." he was a prophet with a political ear and a good sense of timing. he spoke about religion and race everyday, church and state and yet remarkably was never attacked for mixing church and states which a common thing and the reason is because he was so gifted about not trying to subdue one or the other. he would say equal soul or equal votes, take your pick, one day the south will know that when these disinherented children of god sat down at lunch counters they were in reality standing up for the best american drm and the most sacred values in our judeo-christian heritage. he had a remarkably stable balance appeal. >> rose: carmelo anthony and taylor branch when we continue. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: carmelo anthony is here. he is one of the best basketball players in the world. he is a six-time n.b.a. all-star and two-time olympic gold medal winner. this saturday his college

dr. martin luther king jr., but also by other local ministers. >> from the time of the arrest the word had gotten around over montgomery. the ministers were very much interested in it, and we had our meetings in the churches. >> she felt that the church had a responsibility to be active and certainly she was proud of the way that it did so. >> reporter: indeed mrs. parks was to become a deaconess in the ame church. she said that it was in her church that, "i learned people should stand up for their rights, just as the children of israel stood up to the pharaoh." >> you know, she is locked in american history as the "bus woman," the woman who wouldn't move on the bus. so that was -- that was her contribution to the struggle for racial justice. in point of fact, she had a long life after that and before that where she did many things that were couge were courageous and brave. >> reporter: while her protest on that day in 1955 may have been spontaneous, mrs. parks had been attending antisegregation l,evoted at the famous adtleipo ersh traing afor trerde r nionists and civil rights workers. an

dr. martin luther king. much of the march on washington's iconography features king either up close at the podium or with a faceless crowd behind him. but here the leader and the former president from afar can both be seen in a distance atmospheric and collective shot. as king speaks, freed also pivots, capturing both front and back shots of the crowd with thousands of marchers separating freed and king with lincoln behind him. this image serves as a complex and collective portrait of the march on washington at the lincoln memorial. within a year freed crossed paths with king as he photographed the leader in a baltimore street parade on october 31, 1964. freed had gone back to europe and then returned again, and king himself had just gotten back from europe. and on this trip it was announced that he would receive the nobel peace prize, and this was one of the first public gatherings in his honor. freed devoted a full day to photographing king in baltimore including at a parade honoring him and at a speech at

dr. martin luther king, sojourner truth, those are leaders from a historical perspective. i and supervisor breed stand ort shoulders of more recent giants, like espinola jackson, like ms. westbrook, ella hill hutch, doris ward, willie b. kennedy, just to name a few. anyhow, i welcome you and i'm looking forward to -- [laughter] (applause) >> thank you very much. look forward to having a spirited conversation and i'd like to give supervisor breed an opportunity to welcome you as well. >> thank you, supervisor cohen. i just want to start by just thanking you all so much for your patience. i know many of you have been here for a very long time waiting for this opportunity. i'm looking forward to hearing the stories. i'm looking forward to the folks here being honored for the great work that they've done in the community. i, of course, had a really challenging time choosing who i would honor. i settled it at careen mayfield and pat scott who are here today and i'm looking so forward to honoring them and seeing some of the -- my other colleagues on the board who they plan to ho

dr. martin luther king national memorial. the city of washington, d.c. is also working on a statute of frederick douglass that will go as part of the national collection inside of the u.s. capitol with getting the two statutes to go along with the other 50 states statues inside the capitol when there's another statue going up but we will talk about that later. that was the first part of the question. the second part of the question was what is the only statute of an african-american woman come in and of course that statute is also in lincoln park and that is of mary mcleod bethune. now one of the interesting things about these statues in lincoln park is how they are positioned. the freedom memorial of arthur alexandre in the exact center of lincoln park and when the statue went up, lincoln faced the u.s. capitol. so lincoln faced west. when they decided to put the statue of mary mcleod bethune and lincoln park they put mary mcleod bethune in the east end of the park so the set up in the park was this city looked at the capitol dome and everyday and so di