was also at the historic march on washington in 1963 joan baez perform the song that united people in protest we shall overcome was originally a gospel song it combines a simple melody with an appeal for a peaceful future. the music from the struggle doesn't always have to be polished or sad or angry it can sometimes be lifting you're trying to empower people to try to sighted people you have going to do this this is going to happen you know change is going to compete the load it's a spirit of unification it's about that week the take knowledge that we're not alone in this in arcane hacking and in our resistance. but the spirits of we shall overcome quickly became a distant memory. was the 1960 s. continued to see racially motivated murders and brutal police action. in the song mississippi goddam nina simone was explicit and her condemnation of this reality. while other musicians also stood up for the african-american struggle for freedom. so you sing from anger no i sing from. intelligence i sing from letting them know their i know who they are and what they have done to my of people

i ran into joan baez, james baldwin. >> reporter: an exhibit of the 88-year-old photographer's imagesthe selma march opened this week in san francisco's main public library as part of black history month. >> i was recording history. i knew it. i was photographing things i had a passion for. >> reporter: the march led to the passage of the voting rights act, which prohibited racial discrimination in voting. >> i climbed a telephone pole to get the shot. >> reporter: historic change captured with the click of a shutter. joe rosato jr. -- >> all of our lives were changed by it. >> reporter: -- nbc bay area news. >> those are remarkable photographs. >> really are. >> when you see these in history books and life magazine. >> imagine to be the person who took it. >> and here it is in the bay area at this exhibit. that's a great story. >> very cool. >> jeff ranieri is back with us talking about changes in the weather coming. >> it's going to be pretty big once we hit this saturday and also sunday. the record-setting temperatures definitely going to be fading. let's get the microsoft forecast

many americans will remember a song produced by woody guthrie and sung beautifully by joan baez calleddeportee," about a terrible plane crash in which a number of mexicans being deported were killed. there were 32 people on the flight and 28 of them were mexicans. what impressed woody guthrie is that the newspapers only reported the names of the white pilots and so on who were on the plane. everybody else was referred to as a deportee and not named in the reports. in some ways, he dramatized what was going on. we had taken this labor and were using this labor and now we wanted to get rid of this labor. by the middle of the 1950's, during the eisenhower administration, there was an operation called unfortunately operation wet back, which was designed to dump even more mexicans out of the united states and across the border. in all, a little over a million were deported during operation wet back. this is the kind of love-hate relationship with labor from abroad that america had had for a long time. here it was, with respect to our southern neighbor. we wanted them when we wanted them bec

i was a kind of joan baez socialist. i dreamt i saw joe hill last night. i, as i said, i'm a christian liberal. which means that i acknowledge a responsibility that we have towards the poor. that we can't just take a kind of country club view, oh, a bunch of losers. this, againing would be donald trump. oh, those losers, i don't care about them. i've got my cadillac. all is well in the world. so on a lot of the policy proposals that nancy makes from the left, i agree. i may not quite agree with the scale she wants to, wants to do them on but we agree that we should help poor people and pregnant women and so forth. that there should be not a fist in people's face, but an open hand of help. and that's perfectly kept with what we unfortunately call capitalism. when you think about it, the or their capitalist d i do not like the word, but capitalist transaction, we buy a cup of coffee. for one thing, the sheer act of buying a cup of coffee is mutually advantageous, and both people are happy about it, the seller and the buyer. but furthermore, you'll notice in