king two point zero. the original and i think that this king is a neutralized the. king of the king that's really been concocted created to serve some very powerful interests and to obscure in many ways the democratic grassroots movement that actually produces king and some of the processing social problems that you crusaded against throughout his life did it using this mythology this m.l.k. dr king mythology what's in it for you. jan yes yes i couldn't you so i actually one hundred percent agree with professor richard that the big issue here is that we fail to acknowledge fully that during king's life he was really hated by a lot of kind of mainstream political leaders by f.b.i. agents by the by most of the kind of narrative that we're thinking about today in terms of the color blindness post racialism a lot of that was leveraged against people like martin luther king jr and so today we're fifty years after from his assassination a lot of cases. we had this kind of idealism romanticized idea of who he was because that's a really more comfortable way of remembering

king. reminder coming at the top of the hour rebroadcast on c-span and on c-span3, live coverage from the crosstown concourse in memphis as civil rights leaders and the head of the children's defense fund reflect on dr. king's legacy. joining on the conversation, 202-748-8920 in eastern time zones. and in the western time zone, 202-748-8921. rochester, new york. i stayed home from work for this. when you think about 50 years of a remarkable man. a phenomenal man. a man who wasn't afraid to share a dream, that many people still think, even to this day, that it is not possible, but it is. it is a blessing to see we can commemorate a man who never gave up, and never gave in. when you think about the past couple of decades, you think about how far we have grown, especially with barack obama being president back in 2008. i voted to that year. the one thing i remember saying a lot is how people would prepare for barack obama's -- compare barack obama's election to martin luther king stream to a p

you know king comes out publicly. with his stand against the vietnam war what he says in that in that speech it's remarkable speech precisely a year before his assassination is the united states is the greatest purveyor of violence on the planet that he says the united states is on the wrong side of the world revolution and the truth is that you know this kind of anti-imperialist stance this kind of anti-war stance king in many ways and more broadly many elements of the black freedom struggle had long embraced this kind of agenda this connecting racism at home to racism abroad is connecting jim crow and white supremacy in the united states to imperialism and to colonialism and to the war agenda but because of cold war pressures and other pressures because of this emphasis on respectability much of the mainstream civil rights movement had avoided those kind of international cheeks and discourses so so king's real embrace of this more radical this more global agenda of justice was really was really remarkable. you know

king. would like us to keep that in mind as we move forward. it is a beautiful sight to stand here and it is incredibly humbling for me to stand here at this moment on this day. [applause] >> praise god. terri: he was a man, a husband, a father, a son, a brother. he was a preacher, and a scholar. he was a visionary, a strategist, a leader, a servant. he was a radical thinker, a believer in the concept of direct action and civil disobedience as an effective means to affect change. he believed in the promise of america for all people. we hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal. that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, among these life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. he was a dreamer, he had a dream, but he was not simply a dreamer. but a man of action who made the ultimate sacrifice. peace, harmony, and integration were goals, but so were equity, access and opportunity. economic equity, educational equity, access to housing, f

dr king. almost every president of the united states had spent a night here in south king would not have even been allowed to stand on the front steps of such an establishment. it wasn't that long ago the blacks would fear for their life staying in even a shabby motel. americans love the american way of life to earn some money and lead a comfortable existence in the one nine hundred sixty s. this train is unfulfilled for most black americans but times are changing. in one hundred sixty three a civil rights movement stages boycotts and nearly a thousand department stores and restaurants. the financial impact causes business owners to re-evaluate how they operate the king is given a friendly reception at the will of her tell even though he's not accustomed to such service. hello hello and it martin king has someone two of his best people to washington andrew young and wyatt t. walker. for years king has been building a team of trusted individuals and strategists who sometimes risk their lives fo

king says. he starts to feel that even white liberals are abandoning the movement because so many white americans are embracing this notion of peace and law and order with no justice. when we think about 1968, it is going to be an incredibly tense year, but it is also a hopeful and optimistic year because so many not only civil rights act visits, but black power act visits are trying to talk about the politics of transformation at the grass loots level. when you talk about the politics, they are talking about everything from community control of urban schools, talking about building farm cooperatives in the rural south. they are definitely talking about black elected officials, but they are also talking about welfare rights activism. they are talking about the relationship between african-americans and africa and u.s. foreign policy. they are critiquing capitalism and saying is this the right economic system for poor black people. they are really trying to re-imagine what citizenship will look l

king. i ask every citizen so reject the blind violence that has struck dr. king, who lived by non-violence. i pray that his family can find comfort in the memory of all he tried to do for the land he loved so well. i have just conveyed the sympathy of mrs. johnson and myself to his widow, mrs. king. i know that every american of goodwill joins me in mourning the death of this outstanding leader and in praying for peace and understanding throughout this land. we can achieve nothing by and divisiveness among the american people. it is only by joining together and only by working together can we continue to move toward equality and fulfillment for all of our people. i hope that all-americans tonight will search their heart s they ponder this most tragic incident. >> king was born in atlanta, january 15th, 1929. he was the son and the grandson of prominent negro ministers in atlanta, and he had an extended education. he graduated finally with a doctorate from boston university in 1954 and got h

king. us to keep that in mind as we move forward. to standeautiful site here. it is incredibly humbling for me to stand here at this moment at this day. [applause] he was a man, a husband, a father, a son, a brother. .e was a preacher and a scholar he was a visionary, a strategist a leader, a servant. he was a radical thinker, a believer in the concept of peaceful, direct action and civil disobedience as an effective means to affect change. he believed in the promise of america for all people. we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal. that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. , he had dreamer audrain, but he was not simply a dream or, but a man of action who made the ultimate sacrifice. harmony and integration were goals, but so were equity, access and opportunity. economic equity. educational equity. access to housing free from environmental hazards. access to safe neighborhoods

is not really a biography of king or a book about king himself. and certainly not about the manhunt to catch him or any sort of suspense driven account ike that. it's more about how people experience this moment how it impacts did them and also, how this moment impacted america's larger history where i think this event acted as a sort of tipping point in our nation's history and really helps to do any last dreams. for multiracial america. we have a brief biographical sketch about me. it is my third book about civil rights. i wrote one on the south and one on the north. on this book i wanted to focus on one event that i could look all around the country and even all around the world. and how they grapple with that one event. it's also in a way it's a book that has been 20 years in the making. i first visited memphis 20 years ago in 1990 when i was entering my senior year in college. i was going to do a senior thesis on the 1968 strike in memphis. that's why king was in memphis. he was there assisting the sanitation workers who were on strike. and s

bells rang thirty nine times once for every year martin luther king jr lived his life was short but king changed millions of lives ending segregation and securing voting rights for black americans we will and i will to deliver one of the some of the parlor in the in the behind me. wearing a sock shot him killed him in the round six zero on the on a before the ninety six year brutally murdered. at the lorraine motel thousands gathered to honor his work and their own activism it was that downes feelings of being a second class citizen that i addicks various during my life mad life time and asked santa not is a noun speaker after speaker walked on stage to talk about what king meant to them and what challenges they see facing society today apathy hunger was racism war dream in the mall ameena we should be talking about love and justice and helping the poor and treating the strangest right so we have to reshift the narrative we have to care for the poor people's campaign the national poll for more revival earlier on wednesday a march through the streets of memphis to mason temple the place w

king. it is a fair question. i was a certainly not meant to do that. i grew up in a nonpolitical family. my father was a dry cleaner. i was planning to be a surgeon. i did not care of a politics. -- about politics. it is the tenacity of the movement that changed the direction of my life against my will because it lasted so long over a crucial period of my life. i was in first grade during the year of the brown decision. i was him high school at the beginning of the siddons. -- sit-ins. the spring of my senior year in college was the spring that dr. king was murdered. all through my formative years, this relentless movement was going on. it took that long to really convert me. it was fearful when i was young. i remember the atlanta temple was bombed. that's the first political event i remember. there were swastikas and anti-black slogans in the ruins of the atlanta temple in 1957. scaryvil rights euro was -- bureau was a scary. all of my thousands of interviews mean anything -- don't believe

king.e fell and was pronounced dead at the hospital and was moved to a mortuary about six blocks from the motel. that shot changed america. it changed america in a way that enlivened our senses to what it means to treat persons as persons. that all of us are persons. and all of us have human dignity, inately, in and of ourselves. the day after dr. king died, nearly 7,000 people were standing outside at civic center plaza here right outside these front doors mourning the death of dr. king, understanding the significance of his life and the impact of his death. three days later, 10,000 people were up on knob hill at grace cathedral, again mourning dr. king's death and celebrating his life and what he did. he was not very popular at the time he died because he made a statement, and he made a statement of the inalienable rights and human rights, merging problem with america and problem globally in his pronouncement against the vietnam war in 1967. so he was not very popular. but when he died, t

king. would like to keep that in mind as we move forward. it is a beautiful sight to stand here and it is incredibly humbling for me to stand here at this moment on this day. [applause] ms. freeman: he was a man, a husband, father, a son. he was a preacher and a scholar. he was a visionary, scholar, leader and servant. he was a radical thinker. a believer in the concept of peaceful, direct action and as a disobedience successful means to affect change. truths to be self evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain in a billable -- in alienable rights and the pursuit of happiness. it was a dreamer and he had a dream, but he wasn't simply a dreamer, but a man of action who made the ultimate sacrifice. peace, harmony and integration were goals. access ority or opportunity. economic equity, educational access to housing, free from environmental hazards. access to safe neighborhoods, fresh fruit and sound health care in the opportunity to achieve th

king. he himself never wanted to be cited in defense of violence. in mississippi, in 1966, after james meredith was shot he spoke with earnest and passion about what was then the new gospel of the black militias. dr. king jr.: mean-spiritedness circulating, saying that i ought to imitate the worst in the white man in the west in our presence. who has lynching people and throwing them in rivers. all people are telling me i telling me just to stoop down to that level. oh no. [applause] dr. king jr.: i am not going to allow anybody to pull me so low. perpetuating evil throughout our civilization. i am tired of the war in vietnam. i am tired of war in the world. i'm tired of shooting. i am tired of hate. i am tired of selfishness, i am tired of evil. i will not use violence no matter who says it. [applause] harry: dr. martin luther king jr. has been struck down by the violence against which he preached and worked. yet, the cause for which he struggled is not fallen. the force that called for ju

a roman catholic priest prayed for king and explained d the king is dead, long live the king. on the opposite side of the country, author james baldwin called for swimming pool with theactor billy d williams . the phone rang and a friend told baldwin of the tragedy in memphis. it took a while before the sound of his voice. i don't mean the sound of his voice something in his voice got through to me, baldwin laterwrote . altman felt none. unbelieving wonder overtook him. he wept briefly and succumbed to shock and helpless rage. for years that evening would remain a blurring baldwin's memory. he wrote, is retired into some deep effort in my mind. in black springs virginia hundreds of college students had packed an auditorium to watch senator strom thurmond, the longtime segregationist from south carolina debate the literal satirist. golden and harry boulder was a character. he was a liberal and a jewish american who lived in north carolina and who had founded this newspaper of political satire basically called the carolinaisraelites . so he was debating strom thurmond on the nig

king in his various capacity as an enter religious witness, king and justice, king and action, king in faith and king in community. we wanted to talk about that. we wanted to intersperse that with a music group, from dr. king's era, and what it is we have been striving for, and that is beloved community. and so we welcome you here today and we want to start by bringing here to the stage here to talk about king and interreligious witness, the reverend eric matoius, episcopal diocese of california, and representing the bishop of california. >> thank you very much, aaron. honored guests, friends, good morning. i bring you greetings, good morning, i bring you greetings from bishop mark anddras, episcopal bishop of california, and send greetings and love to be with you on this important event at this important day. speaking about the interfaith, interreligious witness of dr. king. we have to remember that dr. king always spoke about building the beloved community. that the goals to create a beloved community as he wrote, that will require a qualitative change in our souls as well as quantit

king was about.e wasn't just about the gods he knew's footage that you look at with him standing up in front of the lincoln memorial and delivered a speech about i have a dream was really about economic justice the movement continues. for poor people for working people it is one that will not stop until there is justice that rolls pulls down like water. and righteousness like a mighty street. this is being broadcast if you could come to one of the microphones. wheelchair to take it from there. you can step to the microphone i was previously introduced but go ahead sir. for my knowledge could you introduce yourself i forgot my hearing aids tonight. my name is rodney strong. i'm from memphis tennessee originally i'm an attorney here in atlanta georgia i work on issues associated with minority business disparity diversity supplier diversity economic justice and those kinds of things. i've missed a great deal. i'm thrilled to be a part of this experience. i wanted to ask if there was any information abou

king did.working with unions and working with the sanitation workers was completely appropriate to everything else that he was doing. juan: reverend lawson -- >> let me also say that in actual fact, then you grow spiritual, anegro huge collection of music that slaves sang that according to historians, frederick douglass being one of them, the slave was forced to sing so that would signify to the white overseers and to the plantation owner where they were on the plantation. huge collection of original music in the united states sung by the slave had a number of major themes. one of the major themes was from the book of exodus of the bible. go down moses, tell of pharaoh let my people go. that is out of that music the black religious experience has been very different from mainline or majority christian religion in united states. tens of thousands of those songs are available, not in their total form, but in various pieces of poetry and liturgy. so i maintain economic justice is at the heart of s

king. i remember when he came to chicago in 1966 on a reuse greed with hatred. i remember the assassination, so vividly because my father had a famous cookie factory in chicago and the day after the murder he came home early from work and i said why are you home? he said a lot of my employees lived on the south and west side of chicago. their neighborhoods are on fire. they're going home to protect the house and the families. a few weeks after the rights he drove me to the neighborhoods because he wanted to see it for history. it's as drafted with since i was was a child. i knew the anniversary is coming up but it is an important occasion. it's the climax of the trilogy of books i've done on assassination in american life. abraham lincoln, john kennedy and now dr. king. for different reasons. they're all great american heroes and the series fell incomplete until i did this book on martin luther king. i've always wanted to do this. >> host: reading through this, you focus a lot on james earl

king. rush had allegedly crossed the street in an area without a crosswalk, when officer christopher hickman yelled and ordered him to place his hands behind his back. when rush ran from the officers, hickman tackled him, repeatedly struck him in the head, tasered him, and used both arms to place rush in a chokehold. at several points in the video, rush is heard echoing the words of eric garner -- who died in 2014 after a new york police officer placed him in a chokehold, "i can't breathe." >> i can't breathe. i can't breathe. i can't breathe. i can't breathe. i can't breathe. oh, my god. amy: rush survived the assault with burns from the taser and injuries to his head and face. officer christopher hickman resigned in january just before he was to be fired for violating his department's use-of-force policy. last month, hickman was arrested on charges including felony assault by strangulation. in california, state lawmakers introduced a bill tuesday that would tighten the rules under which p

this is the story of king of jordan. the twentieth of july one thousand nine hundred fifty one was a critical day in the history of jordan. king abdullah lebanon his stay in the founder of the kingdom was attending friday prayers at a lock the mosque in eastern jerusalem when he was confronted by a young palestinian man. abdullah was shot dead at the gate of the mosque. he had paid the ultimate price for what palestinian thaw as his too close relationship with the new state of israel. jordan had annexed the west bank and jerusalem along with its palestinian population in the one nine hundred forty eight war that they call. the catastrophe. abdullah's death would determine the life and career of his grandson the teenage princess. kandor the philistine even cult figure i was. going to vomit or to me. that the reason we are doing that maha custom uni work. of the law. god gave you that. list in what i did men i met holocaust or don't remember him going to the media well it's not really about. that be what their own want to

but he chose to give doctor king. i think if you look at the personality and what he says later after his capture, in the end i think that he wanted to be somebody after all. he wanted to do something significant and achieve something important. there were self hypnosis books he had, he took them all the way to england and concentrated on the manner to make it happen. i think he wanted to feel his wife didn't amount to nothing. he did something of significance in the end. he asked him to turn the show on so he could watch himself and i am no psychiatrist or psychologist i just read history and try to write about it. i would say the likely motive is that he wanted to achieve some significance to. >> host: he's one of the rare assassins who lived and who could have told us the motivation. ray decided i'm going to try to withdraw the plea and a mysterious man guided me and i helped him unwittingly. if there was a rule that was one of his brothers were both of his brothers but for 30 years, he gave interviews on tv. whate

martin luther king was shot and was killed tonight was was. the painful events of that day are etched on his friends memorise. the term doesn't. mean. and that of his relatives speaking ahead of the anniversary of his death his youngest daughter recalled what the world lost when her father died but also what it gained. he taught us. the importance of embrace in. its not merely as a tactic as a way of life. fifty years on dr king's final speech still reverberates today. have a. week. and with me at the big table tonight is just a tailor she runs and hides the monthly so long that to be responded to it's called black in berlin and she may be familiar to some of you because she was with this on the night of the u.s. election back in november two thousand sixteen it's good to see you we're going to see you know fifty years ago martin luther king was murdered. it's obviously a day to remember it's a day of mourning is there a reason to rejoice. you know i think so i think that dr martin luther king jr's goals of nonviolent resistance and of equalit

king. there were police and national guardsmen at the airport with shotguns and riot sticks to hold back the crowd and writing of newsmen and spectators. was placed aboard for the last journey home to atlanta. a judge in memphis approved a march that martin luther king had planned to lead the next monday. cbs news, memphis. >> dr. king's body came home on a plane chartered by new york senator, robert kennedy. hundreds of people took the time off from their jobs together in the overcast weather. his chief aides were joined by by atlanta mayor, ivan allen who earlier was banned from participating in a black negro march. many stood quietly as after king's wife and children left the plane. the rain stopped just before the plane arrived. ladd that motorcade from the airport through downtown atlanta to a funeral home a few blocks away from the state capital. another crowd of 500 waited there. mrs. king took the children into the home. she met with friends and family to make plans for the funeral.

bernice king. [applause] dr king: i bless you. christ, my brothers and sisters, this is not on the program, but the holy me to ask myding brother, martin king, to come up and stand with me. [applause] dr king: i think it is important that we see two of the children who lost their daddy 50 years ago tomorrow. to an assassin's bullet. as we stand here tonight, he is going to speak in just a moment, and he will bring his family. let me just say that many people don't know, but the trauma that we have dealt with as a family has been overwhelming. daddy to an assassin's bullet. inlost an uncle mysteriously a swimming pool because he knew something about that assassination. we lost a grandmother to a when she was killed while playing the organ at our church when i was 11 years of age. but we kept going. and each of us have dealt with it in different ways, and as i stand here today and as martin stands here today, my brother dexter also stands here today. he is dealing with the grief in ways that are different than even me and martin, so

king. i ask every citizen to reject the blind violence that has struck dr. king. who lived by nonviolence. can findat his family comfort in the memory of all he tried to do for the land he loved so well. i have just conveyed the sympathy of mrs. johnson and myself to his widow, mrs. king. i know that every american of goodwill joins me in mourning the death of this outstanding for peace in praying and understanding throughout this land. we can achieve nothing by lawlessness and divisiveness. among the american people. togethery by joining and only by working together can we continue to move toward and fulfillment for all of our people. i hope that all americans tonight will search their hearts as they ponder this most tragic incident. atlantawas born in january 15, 19 29. he was the son and grandson of prominent nigro ministers in egro ministers in atlanta. he graduated with a doctorate in 1954 and got his first pastorate in birmingham, alabama. it was -- montgomery alabama. in december 195

. >> plus king in the wilderness. honoring dr. martin luther king jr. at the site of his assassination. rare candid moments from the last years of his life. with insight from those who were there. >> martin luther king jr. was a human being, and he was imperfect. he was conflicted, but his love was unchallengeable. >> but first, here are the "nightline 5." >>> and number one is coming up ♪ ♪ ♪ raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens ♪ ♪ bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens ♪ ♪ brown paper packages tied up with strings ♪ ♪ these are a few of my favorite things ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> good evening. and tonight we'll take you inside the life of the young woman accused of opening fire inside the offices of youtube. the bizarre videos she posted, her vendetta against the company and the warning from her family to police. could this bloodshed have been prevented? here's abc's matt gutman. >> my name is nasim. >> at first glance nasim aghdam's videos don't seem too sinister. her bizarre antics racking up millions of views. dressing in co-tums, exercising. promot

king and said, .g, this bus thing is more than i can handle, i'm notat ed enough, i'm not smart enough. we need youo come be our leader. and marredde martin said him, , e.d. nixon, i will think abou it. and nixon said, well, reverend, you best have thought about it by 7:00 because the meeting is in your church. (laughter) and, so, the meeting took place, and it was there, thanks to e.do that king accepted the challenge of being the lader. so we do have to remember martin, and we do, w bute ought not to forget e.d. nixon. >> woodrf: the others who are around who played an portant role. >> absolutely. >> woodruff: as well. connie schultz,ip not asking you to speak for all white people -- >> i assure you i don't. >> woo- druff:t do you think most of us get what the civil rights movement is? >> i'm sad to say no, and i'll tell you what makes me think more about that in recent years is the shooting death of tamir rice. when i went to the funeral, we kept talking about how this was a horrible thing that hap

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king.ere is the headline of the piece -- the martin luther king quote -- we can't keep on blaming the white men. writes that dr. pulledoke about -- he's a congregation in st. louis that we have to do something about our moral standards. we know that there are many things wrong in the white world, but there are many things wrong in the black world too. we can't keep on blaming the white man. there are things we must do for ourselves. blacks that have more opportunity than any previous generation has been taught that -- have been taught that america offers litter than trigger-happy cops, bigoted teachers, and biased employers. it is not only incorrect, but as king and a previous generation of black leaders understood, it is also unhelpful. anita in arkansas, hello. caller: hi, pedro. i was old enough to remember when dr. king was killed. -- i am white, but i know black people in my town who are my age who cried over that. the same that we did when john kennedy was assassinated. i do wish the

bernice king. [applause] dr king: god bless you.in christ, my brothers and sisters, this is not on the program, but the holy spirit is leading me to ask my brother, martin king, to come up and stand with me. [applause] dr king: i think it is important that you see two of the children who lost their daddy 50 years ago tomorrow to an assassin's bullet. and as we stand here tonight, he is going to speak in just a moment, and he will bring his family. let me just say that many people don't know, but the trauma that we have dealt with as a family has been overwhelming. we lost a daddy to an assassin's bullet. we lost an uncle mysteriously in a swimming pool because he knew something about that assassination. we lost a grandmother to a bullet when she was killed while playing the organ at our church when i was 11 years of age. but we kept going. and each of us have dealt with it in different ways, and as i stand here today and as martin stands here today, my brother dexter also stands here today. but he is dealing with the grief in ways t

king. amazing. today i have the privilege to introduce our keynote speaker, taylor branch. now that i look over i hope taylor is here. he was sitting over here. taylor has written many books. you probably have read some of them. if not, you need to. i would be remiss if i did not call them out as being one of our great alumni from the university of north carolina. he is a tar heel. heels.the hydes are tar he is also a morehead scholar. with hisnted to say many achievements and awards he has received i think the biggest of course is the pulitzer prizes he won in his narrative history of the civil rights era. it is called america in the king years. throughout my career at fedex, which is meant decades and decades and decades and decades -- i hit 42 years yesterday if you can imagine. . thank you. i think fred smith would not be applauding right now. i've had the privilege of taking my family with me all around the world. canada. we live in canada. we live in europe, the middle east. i have se

king. amy: dr. king was not feeling well, sat right?e actually did not want to come to the church, but reverend abernathy called him and said, i am not enough. they want you, martin. so he came in the pouring rain will stop in my wrong? >> well, i've heard that version. i have read that version. but in actual fact, i had agreed to pick up martin and ralph abernathy at the hotel and we sat in the room talking about an hour before the hour of the mass meeting. atg did not say he was ill that time or did not feel well. i think martin felt that with the downpour of rain -- you cannot imagine. one of our midsouth storms that began that afternoon. it was pouring down. i think margin thought because of the s storm, we would not hae very many people that that mason temple am a but there were thousands of people there. so we finally agreed that ralph and i would go on and then one of us would call him if we felt he needed to come. and that is what happened. reverend lawson, the next daday, where were you when you heard the news that dr. king had