. >> let me just say that the story of this song was written on the way holley near and joan baez were34 years ago to the steps of city hall. and she wrote this as an anthem, coming 34 years ago to the steps of city hall. so, holley nears, we are angry people. ♪ we are gentle angry people and we are singing, singing for our lives we are gentle angry people and we are singing, singing for our lives we are here together and we are singing, singing for our lives we are gay and straight together and we are singing, singing for our lives we are [speaker not understood] speaking people and we are singing, singing for our lives we are [speaker not understood] speaking people and and we are singing singing for our lives we are a land of many colors and we are singing singing for our lives we are a land of many colors and we are singing singing for our lives we are gentle angry people and we are singing singing for our lives we are gentle angry people and we are singing singing for our lives ♪ ♪ [cheering and applauding] welcome home, man. [ applause ] >> okay. good afternoon afternoon. it is m

there we see ozzie davis, that's joan baez, who sang back in 1963. marlon brown dough was there. charlton heston was there. there's sammy davis, jr., peter, paul and mary. they had an important part of that day. there's james baldwin, the author. we had a very strong presence of very famous people there that day and also today. i just wanted to show some of these pictures, bob, thank you for being here, the book is i have a dream, a 50 year testament to the march on america. i want to thank you for joining us tonight for this interesting discussion and celebration of the 50th anniversary of a very important day in american history. thank you. the show may be over, but the conversation continues on our website at aljazeera.com, facebook, our google plus pages or twitter. we'll see you for our next show. 0's >> hello, i'm' stephanie sy. and these are some of the stories we're following at this hour. >> obama: i think we all understand terrible things have been happening for quite some time. the assad regime has been killing it's own people by the tens of thousands. >> president oba

i can arrest peter, mall and mary and joan baez singing. it was inspiring.impressive show, that people were standing together and standing up for what was right. >> i see you brought me banners of the march. this is beautiful. your mother brought you to the march. you drove all the way from detroit to march with us tomorrow. >> that's right. >> we're proud of you and we're proud of you that 50 years later you live to tell the story. thank you both for your time don't. >> thank you. >> thank you so much. >>> ahead, the dream continues. >> i felt not to be involve with one being the most significant, the most important, the most loaded demonstration to free americans. that has ever happened in this country. >> it is not so strong as an idea whose time has come. ♪ for a strong bag that grips the can... get glad forceflex. small change, big difference. a man who doesn't stand still. but jim has afib, atrial fibrillation -- an irregular heartbeat, not caused by a heart valve problem. that puts jim at a greater risk of stroke. for years, jim's medicine tied him to

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and there's music, odetta, joan baez, bob dylan, mahalia jackson, peter, paul and mary. celebrities, jackie robinson, paul newman, josephine baker, sidney poitier, lena horne, ossie davis and ruby dee, charlton heston, sammy davis, jr., marlon brando. the celebrities were everywhere. but what seemed to have gripped you as you spoke, and as you've written and talked about, in a sense, was those thousands upon thousands of nameless, ordinary people who were out there. >> it was unreal, unbelievable. when i got up to speak, i could see the people, the young people. i can see those middle aged and older people. i can see some members of congress down near the foot of the podium. it was a sea of humanity. >> were you intimidated? you were only 23. you had only been head of sncc, the student nonviolent coordinating committee, for what, a few weeks? >> only a few weeks. and my first responsibility was to travel to washington. we had a meeting with president kennedy in the oval office of the white house. and we told him we were going to march on washington. you know, president k

so i didn't know who joan baez was, not a clue. >> to derek and jennifer coming you wrote about the marchin washington history. can you give us some insight into your research and when you founded and when you thought was important? >> de want me to start? >> when we first started talking we knew we wanted to nato on the march of washington. neither one of us actually can to this knowing very much about the march on washington so it was a good educational experience for us. we decided to focus on the washington star collection and the historical society said there is a few things in our collection that once we started looking at the photographs it became clear that the was the direction that we wanted to go. i don't know if all of you have had a chance to see it and will be available after words but there are some very powerful images among that collection and they were all press images, but they tell a very clear story about the structure of the day, the organization and the amount of pain the planners want to to make sure that everything was organized and peaceful. that is the cheek tru

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joan baez called it the salt faces in the crowd connecting. >> dorothy had a rather bleak vision of america experiences. i am wondering, what was yours? >> our experience was, we had to be better than everybody else. my parents were immigrants. we were people who chose to be americans. the idea of coming to this country and making a decision to transplant your family to make your life better was great. but, we were also taught that it didn't come to you just like that. you had to work for it. you couldn't sit back and expect it. you have to excel in order to get the same thing. and, i learned many years later that sometimes it helps to be underestimated. [laughter] >> dr. wilson, at morehouse college these days when your students think about the march on washington, are they thinking just about the king speech or about the message of that day? >> i think they think about both. i need to tell my story too. i am a preacher's kid. [laughter] i was five or six at the time of the march. my grandmother had written the shoulders of her mother to go here marcus garvey and then she showed up at the

joan baez called it the salt and pepper faces in the crowd connecting. >> dorothy had a rather bleakision of america is of her experiences. i am wondering, what was yours? >> our vision of america was we had to be better than everybody else. my parents were immigrants. we were people who chose to be americans. the idea of coming to this country and making a decision to transplant your family to make your life better was great. but we were also taught that it didn't come to you just like that. you had to work for it. you couldn't sit back and expect it. you hade to excel in order to get the same thing. and i learned many years later that sometimes it helps to be underestimated. [laughter] >> dr. wilson, at morehouse college these days when your students think about the march on washington, are they thinking just about the king speech or about the message of that day? >> i think they think about both. i need to tell my story, too. i am a preacher's kid. [laughter] i was five or six at the time of the march. my grandmother had ridden the shoulders of her mother to go here marcus garvey

now they could look at the -- as joan baez called it, the salt and pepper faces in the crowd and connectokay. but dorothy had a rather bleak vision of america because of her experiences. i'm wondering what was yours? >> our vision of america was we had to be better than everybody else, we -- >> black had to be better? >> oh, yeah. my parents were immigrants to this country, so we were people who chose to be americans, so great patriots. the idea of coming to this country and making a decision to transplant your family to make your life better was great. but we were also taught that it didn't come to you just like that. that you had to work for it. that you couldn't sit back and expect it and that you had to excel in order to get maybe the same thing. and i leshed many year -- learned many years later that sometimes it helps to be underestimated. you can take advantage of that too. [laughter] >> dr. wilson, at morehouse college these days when your students think about the march on washington, are they thinking just about the king speech or about the message of that day? >> oh, i think th