dr. martin luther king jr. preached during the civil rights movement. this church is hollowed ground. welcome to a special edition of "politics nation." i'm al sharpton. and we're honored to broadcast from this church. dr. king became pastor here in 1954. from this church, he led the montgomery bus boycott, reshaping the course of history and igniting a movement that changed the world. today, after 54 miles of marching, we reached montgomery. many of us spoke at a rally on the steps of the state capital. the same steps where king stood 47 years ago at the end of his epic march from selma to montgomery. fighting for voting rights and immigrant rights. tonight, we'll have an exclusive interview with dr. king's oldest son about his father's legacy. and the fight to protect the gains of the civil rights movement. we'll also be talking politics. new job numbers. president obama is moving the economy in the right direction, even though republicans can't admit it. >>> plus, southern fried willard. romney suddenly discovers his southern roots on a swing through dixie. now willard says he even

dr. martin luther king middle school. i am not capable of teaching there. all of the suspensions, how many have i done? none. how many kids have a kick out of the classroom? none. do i have perfect classroom control? yes. why do we take our kids out on the streets? why are they out of class? my son is an attorney, my niece is a medical doctor. we believe in education. they have perfect attendance throughout the history of going to school. tonight, i wondered what i would say and i knew this thing would go off. so what? so what? i am tired of watching our kids get a kick out of school. kicked out for what? for fighting? fix it. you are supposed to fix this stuff, not kick kids out. we are tired of our children being kicked out of school. i have not take anyone out of school but i am being kicked out. for what? for loving my students? i have a 125 get well cards from my students that brought me here. president yee: thank you. thank you very much. >> what are we teaching our children? when we take them to occur, -- to the curb, we are no better than the people

dr. martin luther king again that silence gives cont t content. and surely we are not consenting to all of the of the things that happened to us. again, we must collaborate now. we must stop all of the foolishness about being angry with somebody because they didn't want to do one things that they wanted. we've got to think about who is usually there with us until we can put somebody that is there all of the time. we women are a majority. sometimes, we act like we're just a little part of the c constituency that is out here voting. we are the majority. may believe they don't know what it means. >>> now, the people who are against us aren't hiding. it's not difficult to find them. all we have to do is listen to cvs, msnbc, even that other station over there and you'll find out who the real enemies are. so we just have to say no, no, no, no. we won't go back. and we've got mean it when we say it. so many of our women friends have died waiting for things to happen. while they worked, we were not always there with them. but we must be with women today

dr. martin luther king jr.ht activists like al sharpton and jesse jackson are raoeulg up americans with that type of language, and her quote, playing the race card. evetta king joins me now. dr. king welcome, good to have you here. >> thank you for letting me join you. martha, if i may say, just listening to reverend sharpton and reverend jackson. reverend jackson, no justice no piece. there is power in the blood of reverend martin luther king jr. there is power in the blood of trayvon martin. certainly the power is in the blood of jesus christ. we are in easter season. to say no justice, no peace if you know jesus you know there is peace. trayvon's family is grieving right now and they don't need a lot of anger and fear surrounding that. certainly trayvon martin, a young man, cut down in his prime, i would say because of my ministry, a late abortion, now his dreams are dead. also with mr. zimmerman his life is turned upside down. two young men, one dead. of course we love oufr children, we love all children. a

dr. martin luther king." and we're going to pretty much have a lot of subtle messages saying, "well, what if this happened to america? and this is how we feel." and i happened to be in hamburg, germany, when all of it was going down. and like i said, it was like--it was a highlight of my career, being that we played in arizona with u2 in sun devil stadium, no pun intended. you know, everybody was expecting the big p.e. show to open up for u2. and we played that song and then got off the stage. and by the next year, they voted in a dr. martin luther king holiday. my whole thing was saying that you can spur and you can trigger minds into not being so much asleep by using art, using song, to make them think progressively against what's wrong or what's ignored. oftentimes, when we're not heard or seen while we're in pain, you know, it's business as usual in america. and my whole thing is to say, "well, sometimes it can't be business as usual, because slavery was business as usual." and if you have the discussion

dr. martin luther king, jr. as a public figure, shifting on to the 1960s with a greater involvement of youth activists and a coordinating committee and there was the swag of the civil rights movement and in the last two decades, historians have begun to look at the civil rights movement. over a longer period of tinme, really beginning and i would argue looking at the first attempt to fight for civil rights of citizenship among african-americans during the time of reconstruction and emancipation in 1865. but really looking at that period fighting a legal battle and maryland is an interesting place to do that. when you think of the civil rights movement and i ask my question this all the time, what images do you think of when you hear civil rights movement? >> it interactive part? >> it is. marches. >> radicalism. >> radicalism. pirk kets, lynching. so those things don't just all of a sudden occur in 1940 and end abruptly in 1968 when we come to the period of black to you power. and so historians have termed the n

dr. scott has contributed to the martin luther king junior papers project, volumes two to four and the fourth coming colombian guide to african-american history from 1939 to the presented. william f. soez zi was a reporter in baltimore for nearly 20 years before leaving the newspaper to write for television in 2002. mr. sor zi, a baltimore native wrote for the last three seasons of "the wire," the television program on home box office, hbo, and also acted in the series. if you remembered an ill tempered reporter named bill sor zi in the fictional sun nusz room, that was he. he and his partner david simon are developing a mini series for hbo about the volatile events surrounding a federal public housing desegregation case in yonkers, new york, in the '80s and '90s. the two are also at work on a book about the rise of the drug culture in baltimore using pennsylvania avenue and its habit ways as a vehicle to tell the story. i would say we're in for aeveni. it's my pleasure to turn the microphone other to my dear friend from "the afro" john. john? [ applause ] >> good evening everyone. can you he

dr. martin luther king talked about economic structure.he said there are 40 million poor people and the country, and you have to ask what kind of country creates 40 million poor people. you have to ask about the structure of our economy. we are only second to sweden in inequality of income distribution, and nobody wants to talk about -- if you talk to other people, they will say, this is class warfare where you begin to talk about the differences between who earns one or they need to work harder. there is no one harder working than an undocumented worker cleaning somebody's house and getting paid under the table. [applause] tavis: since you raise these prepaid cards, you have a card called the approved card and that is different from anything else. i want you to respond and tell us about what makes this card different. >> there is a big business with people being poor. the more poor you are, the more you pay for insurance, the more you pay for everything, the more money they make of you, so i would not disagree about capitalism. there is a

dr. martin luther king, the doctor called it a lynching. here is the latest for us. >> reporter: thousands across the country wearing hoodies at public rallies. an inside churches, a symbol of protest to demand protest because of the unarmed black teenager killed in sanford. >> i would like to say we thank them and we appreciate all the support. it means a lot to us. >> his mother reacting to the nationwide protest against zimmerman. he claims he killed him in self- defense and his friends are upset over the killing. >> after this first started reports were that i got he couldn't stop crying. >> he has never been arrested or charged in the killing. >> because he is not in jail, he has been very confident, naively that this would all blow over. >> but it won't. they could bring a hate crime charge for using a racial slur when he called his supervisor before shooting him. >> in your view is a race cyst? i have never seen anything to indicate that. >> his cli in the will remain free according to him. >> after the 911 tapes are released and the

dr. martin luther king of taking a stance against the war machine. we began to get surveiled at a much deeper level. the more that we raise our voices in the chicano national movement, the student movement, i was in at the time the fbi came to visit me at my work. not at home, at my work. these were activities i was present in and these were activities being subject to the surveillance of the fbi. thank you. >> thank you, supervisor and committee. thank you for introducing this important civil-rights legislation. you have my full support. rim a san francisco poet and i am on record supporting this civil rights legislation. thank you. >> a good afternoon, supervisors. thank you for endorsing this ordinance. i am the executive director of the arab cultural community center in san francisco. i am inspired to have heard all the testimony i've heard today as well as those we have been hearing at the human rights commission hearing throughout the year. i have heard many different things i would like to echo and try to package it in a short synopsis. the fi

dr. martin luther king. we ask you to return the dream to our school. not incidents such as these. february 24, administrator threatens to discipline the teacher of severely impaired students following the code, allowing paraprofessionals to provide support for groups of students. february 23, and investors friends -- refuses to suspend a student who solicited oral sex. he informs the counselor. did not warrant a suspension. february 13, administrator has a latino student searched because she was laughing loudly in class, minker's didn't have an illegal substance. the only item they found was a petition not to fire the for -- for teachers we ask you to fire. an administrator undermines the authority in front of students. i could go on and on. a teacher yelled out in front of students has a nervous breakdown and has not returned. these things need to stop. we need you to return the drink to our school. thank you. -- we need you to return the dream to our school. >> i know you know my face. i have been here all last year over and over again. last year, this time, the board deputy sup

dr. martin luther king avenue. the naacp putting this vigil together. we're expected to see various leaders here in the washington, d.c. area as well as black leaders from throughout the country being present at this vigil here tonight. again, scheduled to take place in 30 minutes. earlier today, there was another vigil up on capitol hill also for trayvon martin. let's show you what that looked like earlier today. demonstrators held the event and they called this one hoodies on the hill. that rally, of course, also memorializing the teen brought out large crowds, encouraged to wear hooded sweatshirts just like trayvon was wearing when he was shot. just so you know, this same reaction we are seeing in washington is also being seen in other places throughout the country. tonight, vigils are also scheduled down in sanford, florida, as well as philadelphia and chicago. a lot of support for trayvon and for this entire plight being seen throughout the country. this is scheduled to begin in 30 minutes. tomorrow, we're expected to see yet another vigil. that on

dr. martin luther king said, we it patriot for equal opportunity education to be realized. this is the civil rights challenge of thissen racial. -- of this issue. it's a daily fight for social justice and together it is a fight we will win. thank you so much. [ applause ] now i'd like to bring out the real stars of the show who you doing the hard work. carole smith, as i talked about, is the superintendent of the portland public schools. then we have a fantastic turn around school here in d.c., luke moore high school, which is an alternative high school with a charismatic and hard driving principal. we have rose smith, a teacher there and daquan smith, a senior there. f i could ask them to come ou real start of the show, high school senior daquan burley. i could not have done this in high school. you're way ahead of me. you're a senior now. i'd love to hear what the school was like in the first couple of years before the turn around and what the environment and what the culture is like now. >> well, the first couple of years, me being so young, when i came i was 14 years ol

dr. martin luther king got his national day of celebration. so we continue to move and, you know, there's so much perseverance. we have committees throughout the entire united states. and so it looks like it's getting closer and closer each year we move a step forward like caesar always said. in order to reach that goal, you've got to do it a little bit at a time. so that's what we're going to do and we're going to percent veer until we eventually get it. i think with having a democratic president, the chances are much better of getting recognized as a national holiday. >> i know that this is an hour nor for t honor for the family but they will roll-up their sleeves and go to work. >> go help the holidays, go help the farm workers. what's what he always said but people right now they deserve it and we still have thelp the far every way that we can and we do whatever we can every year. we started with just the march, you remember, and then we went into the breakfast and now we have the golf tournament for three years and every year. >> we're go

dr. martin luther king, jr. he preached hard work. he preached unity.ched the fact that we are of one people. we may be different colors. we may be different religions. we may be different backgrounds, but we are still americans and we are still southerners. if you look at any picture of him on the stage, he's moving, he's gesturing. he is animated. he's always pumping his fist. he's always pointing. he's moving and he's not looking up or around. he's looking right at people. and everybody there who was within earshot, i'm sure, thought for at least a while that he was speaking directly to them. he was looking directly at them. and as he looked at them he spoke. he touched a chord. >> all weekend long american history tv is in shreveport, louisiana. to explore the rich history of the city founded in 1836. you're watching american history tv. 48 hours people and events telling the american story. >>> we're in our doctor's office here at the pioneer heritage center. modern medicine as just evolved over a short amount of time. the pioneer medicine stayed s

dr. martin luther king, jr. he preached hard work. he preached unity. he preached the fact that we are of one people. we may be different colors. we may be different religions. we may be different back growns, but we are still americans and we are still southerners. if you look at any picture of him on the stage, he's moving, he's gesturing. he is animated. he's always pumping his fist. he's always pointing. he's moving and he's not looking up or around. he's looking right at people. and everybody there who was within earshot i'm sure thought for at least a while that he was speaking directly to them. he was looking directly at them. and as he looked at them he spoke. he touched a chord. >> all weekend long american history tv is featuring shreveport, louisiana. learn more about shreveport and find out where c-span's local content vehicles are going next online at

dr. martin luther king walked. as martin fell at the age of 39 in 1968, harry belafonte never gave up the flag and continued that battlefront to ensure that those who could not speak for themselves were heard through his wonderful and sweet resounding voice, his ability for lyrics and his acting talent of the many movies that he allowed us to enjoy. . so i'm delighted to join you in wishing harry belafonte a very happy combirget day and again let -- birthday and again let him know that he's too long from seeing us. we saw him just recently but any time he wants to come to the united states congress and share with us in our fight for justice , in the desire to pass legislation that makes sense, whether or not it is dealing with the rights of women, whether it is to fight for the overdue passage of the equal rights amendment or to ensure the re-authorization of the violence against women's act or to make sure we fund the office of civil rights, or we ensure that the stamping and trampling on the rights of 96-year-old

dr. martin luther king said, we cannot wait for reform to happen. we cannot wait for equal educational opportunities to be realized. this is the civil rights challenge of our generation. i want to thank everyone here and everyone in this field for their courage, their commitment, and their leadership in bringing new hope to schools, to communities, and most importantly to children where the light of hope had dimmed. this is at heart a movement and i believe it is about so much more than education. it is a daily fight for social justice and together it is a fight we will win. thank you so much. i would like to bring out the real stars of the show and carol smith as i talked about, the superintendent of the portland public schools, and then we have a fantastic turn around school in d.c., luke moore high school, an alternative high school with a charismatic and hard-driving principal, rose smith, the about is and tech teacher there and doc burley, a senior there and if i can ask them to come out, please. i will start with the real star of the show, doc

dr. martin luther king preached from the steps it has a wonderful history but now it's fallen into disrepair and the city wants to demolish it ... >>looking at the building you can see it's in terrible shape the roof is open with a large gaping hole and trash littering all sides of this building there are cracks in its facade and there are places where some boards are covering the windows permitting the elements to get inside any way but owners are hopeful that the money can be raised to save this historic building ... >>the status right now is that we have some security issues that are serious we need help to secure the property we need financial assistance, >>and nobody wants to see the building come down with the primary concern is safety for the public >>the building has been vacant for about 10 years it has fallen on hard times. the owners are hopeful that some angel will step forward to raise $100,000 that will go toward making this building safe so that reconstruction can take place if that does not happen it will be demolished because the city has received a demolition orders from th

dr. martin luther king. lewis was one of the two leaders of the martha fateful sunday.ar gassed when alabama state troopers charged the marchers at the foot of the edmund pettus bridge. >> i thought i was going to die. >> this weekend, john lewis, o now a long serving member of congress, was back on the bridge, older now, but still determined. >> i think it's important for those that was not even born, not even a dream to know what happened. know the price that was paid. the only thing i did, i gave a little blood that day. >> for the past 12 years, lewis has been dedicated to making sure america and particularly the nation's lawmakers never forget the civil rights struggle. he leads a bipartisan annual for members of congress to selma where the march grew out of an act of violence in nearby marion. we were there in 1965. >> we were among the few newsmen who arrived early enough before the troopers held off the press. one negro was shot in the stomach. he is in critical condition. he thinks the trooper shot him. >> that man was jimmy lee jackson. eight days later, he di

dr. martin luther king mantle of the community of the beloved and we absolutely believe in non-violence.n the due process. we just want florida to step up to the plate and do their constitutional responsibility. arrest mr. zimmerman. we already know he is the culprit. >> thank you. appreciate it. all right. coming up in our next hour, we're going to look at the trayvon martin. and you will hear from the moms of young black males and the advice they give their children to try to keep them from dying. they are raw and emotional as well. we want to watch this coming up at the top of the hour. >> your top stories are three minute as away including pope benedict's. but first, each week we profile -- the program is called the next list. next sunday he talks to jose gomez marquez who is using toys to save lives. >> i want to create the equivalent of what lego is today for toys. i want to have not just the -- but the movement of democracy innovation in health care. i want to do that for medical technologies. i use toys to make affordable medical devices. [ male announcer ] the draw of the past i

dr. martin luther king jr. championed against injustices.ave you wondered how he learned about issues that impacted the lives of african-americans? many wrote to him. amelia boynton is one of them and is making her mark today. she helped organize a selma to montgomery march in 1965 known as bloody sunday. she was one of 17 who were hospitalized after being beaten and tear gassed by police and left for dead on a bridge. that brought national attention to the voters rights movement and led to the signing of the 1965 civil rights act. this week activists mark the 47th anniversary of bloody sunday by recreating the march. they say the push for voter rights is just as relevant today. we choose amelia boynton as the person who is at 100 years old, certainly making their mark. [ male announcer ] that. right there -- reminds you why you fell in love with her in the first place. and why you still feel the same. but your erectile dysfunction -- that could be a question of blood flow. cialis for daily use helps you be ready anytime the moment's right.

dr. martin luther king has been killed. also father brooks intrigued me as someone who was a pioneer who went out and basically circumvented the admissions process. he was very controversial. those of you who read the book and who know him he was a very strong-willed man and basically went out in a car with jim gallagher, drove to the school to personally interview lot of these men, not the men who came in through other means such as eddie who came in through an athletic scholarship and -- an eye-popping? can everybody still hear me? probably better. and sat in a coffee shop one night and decided who was going to get in, the two of them and presented the bill to -- for a college that had a million dollars in endowment at the time was quite as cost -- waycross to bare. what i was looking for, how do you decide anybody who is a parent in the room knows that intelligence is not something that is a hallmark of success. doesn't necessarily lead to success. when you talk to father brooks he was looking for leadership comedy and p

dr. martin luther king jr. led thousands of people in the voting rights march here in montgomery.y that i will never forget. >> there are those who are trying to push us back. but we're not going back. >> we have to reflect. we come here to be renewed. we come here to be inspired. >> 47 years ago, i remember looking at my parents' faces. they were riveted watching the television set. they were so proud of the men and women who walked across that bridge on behalf of each and every one of us who are here today. >> are we ready to march? are we ready to march? ♪ this little light of mine i'm gonna let it shine ♪ ♪ this little light of mine >> god, we thank you. we thank you for giving our leaders 47 years ago the strength to take blows for us and to inspire us. >> i would rather die on the highways of alabama than make a butchery of my conscience. >> we're not being beaten on the bridge, but we're being blocked at the ballot box. >> i have been voting for 60 years. >> it's a tragedy. they are attacking the voters like they are. >> a voteless people is a hopeless people. they're not a

dr. martin luther king jr., james earl ray made that list.boston crime boss whitey bulger was on it for more than a decade until his capture it last year and of course seal tim 6 took care of ubl. arrested 465 of the criminals on that list. but the fbi first targeted the 10 most wanted 62 years ago today. and now you know the news for this wednesday, march the 14th, 2012. we're all back tomor

dr. martin luther king has been killed. also a father brooks intrigues me as somebody who was a pioneer who went out there and basically circumvented the admissions process. he was very controversial. a very strong-willed man. basically went out in a car, and drove to the school personally interviewed a lot of these men -- an eye-popping? there. and can everybody still hear me? probably better. and then sat in the copy shop one night and decided who was going to get in, the two of them. then he presented a bill to the president of the time, $80,000 which for a college that had about a million dollars in endowments was quite a cost to bear. so what he was looking 45i asked him how you decide, anybody who is apparent from the room knows that intelligence is not necessarily something that is a hallmark of success. does not necessarily lead to success. when you talk to father brooks he was looking for qualities, looking for drive, looking for people who had a work ethic, people who were hoping to reach beyond their grasp, black

dr. martin luther king jr., james earl ray made that list.boston crime boss whitey bulger was on it for more than a decade until his capture it last year and of course seal tim 6 took care of ubl. arrested 465 of the criminals on that list. but the fbi first targeted the 10 most wanted 62 years ago today. and now you know the news for this wednesday, march the 14th, 2012. we're all back tomorrow, noon pacific, 3:00 eastern time for "studio b." back here for "the fox report" for the journalists of fox news, i'm shepard smith. opinion and analysis begins now with a l

dr. martin luther king, jr. ut the deep south battling injustice, but have you ever wondered how dr. king learned about issue that is impacted the lives of african-americans? many people simply wrote to him. 100-year-old amelia boynton is one of them and today she's making her mark. considered one of the pioneers of the civil rights movement, boynton helped organize the selma to montgomery march in 1965 known as bloody sunday. she was one of the 17 hospitalized after being beaten by police. that incident brought national attention to the voter rights movement and led to the signing of the 1965 voting rights act. all this week activists mark the 47th anniversary of bloody sunday by recreating the imagine and other activities. they say the push for voter rights is just as relevant today. so for her fight against injustice and contribution to history, we choose amelia boynton as our person who is at 100 years old making their mark. . [ male announcer ] even if you think you can live with your old mattress... ask me