. >>> they came and said, fanny lou, did pap tell you what i said? i said, yes, sir.an that, if you don't go down and withdraw your registration, you will have to leave. i addressed him and told him that i didn't try to register for you. i tried to register for myself. >> that was just a portion of fannie lou hamer's testimony. as an organizer of the massachusetts freedom democratic party, she was petitioning them to block the all-white designation and recognize the multi-racial freedom democrats. her evidence was her own harrowing story of the unimaginable struggle she had endured to register two weeks earlier. we found an exclusive nbc interview with her from 1969. what's so incredible is how it feels like the same interview could take place today. >> this is fannie lou hamer from ruralville, mississippi in sunflower county and she has a gift for earthy and vivid phrases and for stating her views without hypocrisy. she will be membered as a featured player on the democratic convention five years ago. she is visiting new york to help get negroes and puerto ricans reg

but a lot of what happened in the south depended on people like fannie lou hamer.angerous for them to do the work they did. >> they were women in the hierarchy of the civil rights movement. it was mostly men. >> it was women that did stand up all throughout. in alabama, or wfr thherever ths in the south, the struggle was so scary. >> i want to say fannie lou hamer said, yes, i represent the left, the left out. i have been left out for 400 years. more in just a moment. first, it is time for preview of the weekend with alex whit. >>> we have new twists over that controversial over that anti-muslim film. one of the people apparently behind the video is talking to federal officials but why? >>> in libya the role the u.s. is playing in trying to figure out who killed the american ambassador. the fbi is now there. >>> new polls in the race for the presidency. what do they tell us that could be pivotal for november? and in office politics an expert talks about the value of debates. >>> there may be more and even racier pictures of kate middleton out there. the publisher w

it's the 50th of atlanta city and fannie lou and mississippi democratic party. it's the 50th of dr. king in saint august teen florida. the 50th of so many things. in 2015, of selma, voting rights act and the civil rights movement forced a president to say we shall overcome. remember hilary and barack obama had that battle. was lyndon johnson and mlk. barack obama said mlk given these milestone,s that emergency room cog dhash coming up. we see in the election opened up opportunities for all of us. especially those who write and agent and are active about issue. we see brother on television now we see different people. whether we degree disagree 0 with the new black faces peopled needed negro face in higher place. they're calling you. people were professor -- [inaudible conversations] what does it mean? space opened up. space opened up. what does it mean for us the milestones whrorntd obama gets reelected. the civil rights milestones. they were talking about how miseducated or no education. the 50th ankers anniversary. is going to have talk about king and civil rights. what can bedo?

of a tax system that doesn't get you, if you are sick and tired of exploding debt or if you like fanny lou and you are just plain old sick and tired of being sick and tired, join us, work with us, win with us, and we can make our country the country it was meant to be! [cheers and applause] >> now, george bush had a game, but he has no game plan so that we can compete and win again in the global economy. i do. he will take on the big insurance companies to -- he will not take on the big insurance companies to get affordable insurance for all americans, but i will. [cheers and applause] he won't even implement a president for his own -- chairman for his commission on aids, but i will. he will not streamline the federal government and change the way it works, cut 100,000 bureaucrats and put 100,000 new police officers on the streets and cities of america, but i will. [cheers and applause] he has never balanced a budget. but i have 11 times. he bonet break the hold the special interests have on our elections and the lobbyists have on our government, but i will! [cheers and applause] he won't

exploding debt and reduced investments in our future, or if, like the great civil rights pioneer, fannie louamer, you're just plain old tired of being sick and tired -- [cheers and applause] -- join us, work with us, win with us, and we can make our country the country it was meant to be! [cheers and applause] now, george bush talked a good game, but he has no game plan to rebuild america from the city to the suburbs to the countryside so that we can compete and win again in the global economy. i do. [applause] he won't take on the big insurance companies and the bureaucracy to control health costs and give us affordable health care for all americans, but i will. [cheers and applause] he won't even implement the recommendations of his own commission on aids, but i will. [cheers and applause] he won't streamline the federal government and change the way it works, cut 100,000 bureaucrats and put 100,000 new police officers on the streets of american cities, but i will. [cheers and applause] he's never balanced a government budget, but i have -- 11 times. [applause] he won't break the strangleh

fannie lou hamer, dorothy day, they knew class struggle was going on, but they had a moral and spiritualmension to it. it was love and justice, not revenge and hatred. you get class warfare when the revenge and hatred sets in. if you keep the love and justice, you say you know what? we've got to work this thing out together, but the inequality is very real. >> host: are you teaching this semester at princeton? >> guest: i'm back in new york city. >> host: and are you still associated with princeton? >> guest: thyme emeritus, i'm retired. >> host: when did you retire? >> guest: this past may. >> guest: a couple days ago. [laughter] >> guest: princeton, you know, it's a mag magnificent place. i teach a course in the political, we go to samuel beckett mediated by chekhov and little eugene o'neill. >> host: all in one semester? >> guest: one semester. [laughter] that's just one course. >> host: tavis smiley, before we go to calls, tell us about your radio show. >> guest: radio show, i do to two shows, my show and the show with dr. west called smiley and west. i've been in the media now for 2