>> these were some of the experiences of millions of black people including one woman named fannie lou hamering] born to a sharecropping family in rural mississippi, she worked on a farm for the first 44 years of her life, toiling under the on justices -- the injustices of jim crow. >> but when the civil rights movement came to her town, instead -- it stirred in her a desire for something better. from that point on,

smith, joyce and dory ladner ruby robinson cortland cox, diane nash james stokely carmichael, fanny lou hamer, ela baker, gloria richardson bernard lafayette and the rev. jesse jackson who will deliver the eulogy here today. all of us knew marion barry when he was being formed as a man by the civil rights movement. years later we were in washington when marion and i had different roles. i used to tease him on the dance floor about bringing those cotton chopping moves to the big city as marion did what he called dancing. he laughed. knowing that this was my way as a d.c. girl from up south of saying to my own old friend from the southern movement you have come a long way, buddy from picking cotton in mississippi to running the nation's capitol. [ applause ] but those cotton picking roots served marion barry jr. well. he challenged poverty by working himself out of it. coming from the cotton fields of mississippi he said i was used to hard work. it doesn't bother me. that's what he wrote in his autobiography. but it was the civil rights movement that equipped marion to challenge segregation and

fay robinson, portland cox, diane nash, james forman, stokely carmichael, ivanhoe donaldson, fannie lou hamer, ella baker, bernard lafayette, the rapper to jesse jackson who will deliver the eulogy here today. all of us new marion barry when he was being formed as a man by the civil rights movement. years later in washington when marion and i have different roles, i used to tease him on the dance floor about bringing those cotton shopping moves to the big city as marion did what he called dancing. he laughed, knowing that this was my way as a d.c. girl from of south of saying to my old friend from the southern movement, you have come a long way, but he -- buddy from picking cotton in mississippi to running the nation's capital. [applause] but those cotton picking roots served marion barry, jr. well. he challenged poverty by working himself out of it, coming from the cotton fields of mississippi, he said, i was used to hard work. it doesn't bother me. that's what he wrote in his autobiography. but it was the civil rights movement that equipped marion to challenge segregation and prepared him t