martin luther king, jr. it's called "they killed a king." ♪ ♪ they killed a king >> please welcome back to the show, sam moore. great to have you back, my friend. thank you. you played many, many times with everybody i can think of. from springsteen, you played with everybody, goes across the gamut. and one of the things, this music you've done with the song about martin luther king, i hope people will go to the website and watch it. but you know we're not going to let you come on here and not play one of the great hits that put you in the rock 'n' roll hall of fame. >> why? >> i just figured, first of all, being able to play with you is a big thrill for me. and we want to make sure that we play one that everybody will

he made a career out of hating martin luther king and heaping scorn upon him. he was present, he was elected to congress in nearly 60s and always filing of these link the reports based on innuendo and character assassination and guilt by association. all of the mccarthy tactics. he had his hearing not only before dr. king was shot but interestingly after dr. king was shot he was all over the pages of the congressional record saying bad things, interesting stuff. the most king opponents, not all of whom were republicans and not all of whom were conservatives really kept their mouths shut on the floor of congress and elsewhere with some interesting exceptions. but bashis broken to need to go after king and stayed in congress until 1982, through most of the debate on the martin luther king holiday, the national holiday that was finally enacted after a four year struggle led by coretta king with some help from steve wonder and a host of characters who are traced in my story. but-brook kept dishing out this old conspiratorial king consorted with communists stuff, de

as if martin luther king would be standing side by side with him on this point. i can't speak to it and i don't think that rand paul or sean or any one else had any idea this is what this guy's views were and what he ultimately how he ultimately felt about black people or seeing black people thinking they would be better off as slaves. that is the height of stupidity. i don't think that's the case. i think for a lot of these folks it was the initial cause celeb about you know, the constitution and his rights to you know, to be the rancher and defend his property when in fact legally he was wrong. >> right. that's it. i wonder if somebody like rand paul is going to sit back and say why does this keep happening? let's listen to that. >> the issue with clive bundy has absolutely nothing to do with this party. zero. he is a rancher that had a beef with the federal government's continued overreach and suddenly this became a question when he made inappropriate comments about what every republican needs to answer for. that is ridiculous. >> jonathan, what do you make of

those are stories, the subtitle is "the king years" and he focuses on martin luther king but it is a much broader story the net and he does a wonderful job of painting really the broad sweep of human history through the civil rights movement from about 1954 to 1968. for many academic historians they appreciate his work but they also try to push the movement a different direction. there are two greatest wins of the mississippi movement who really shaped the whole future direction of the civil rights. a book called local people, a story of civil rights in mississippi, and when you tell that story it doesn't follow king's life. he is not the main story so we highlight sort of the longer traditions of black organizing dating back to the '20s and '30s and he talks about some of the main, the aspect of grassroots organizers, when sncc shows up and have a try to work with local people. the other book in the light by charles pena who is both a historic a sociologist called i've got the right -- the light of freedom. wider social change happen, how does organizing work? he tries answers the q

if we drive martin luther king out this much doesn't mean anything. we need him for the tension and we want to generate. and king is constantly being pushed in multiple directions. this much reveal some in some ways as is most morally powerful because he is constantly trying to articulate the discontent. betty is trying to craft it into his larger language, his core principles, nonviolent action, the integration of america. to do so he is constantly using his rhetorical gifts to try to merge these messages into something coherent, find this unity. it is just a burden. by the end of the march is worn down. first by the same token the market doesn't have any power. >> why did he call it a mistake? >> is toward the end of the march 90 is just gone through some fairly extraordinary trials the marchers had just gotten the philadelphia. since june 21st, 1966, exactly two years later -- the two-year anniversary of the murder of three civil rights workers. it was, of course, large national story. they're going there to commemorate those murders and lead a dem

and you want to make sure to highlight key figures, the main leaders and that included martin luther king, stokley car michael -- carmichael, and the man who start the whole thing, james meredith, and this image was lucky enough to capture all three of those and the whole sweep of matchers. >> host: faction. tell us about the march you're referring to tell us about the title of the book and how you chose it. >> guest: sure. the title is "down the crossroadses: civil rights, black power, and the mary dirt march against fear." in the three weeks of the march you can make an argument the civil rights movement transforms and approaches its crossroads. the call for black power is first heard. stokley carmichael unveils the slogan in the march and generates controversy, it immediately generates a great swelling of enthusiasm many mean local black people and ignites a new direction of black politics. now, those changes might have happened over the course of time anyway but what the meredith march did was dramatize the shift because it brought together civil rights leaders and regular people

now, martin luther king did not want her to take her seat in the front of the bus. that wasn't what he was talking about. he did not say go to the front of the bus and that's where your seat was. what reverend king wanted was that she could set anywhere in the bus. that's what he wanted. i want her to be able to sit anywhere in that bus and i want to be able to sit next to her anywhere on that because. >> when rosa parks refused to give up her seat on that bus, she was fighting discrimination. it was an act of selflessness. she sat so millions more could stand up to the racism of the 1950s. cliven bundy is a lawless rancher. he's not fighting against discrimination and he's not fighting on behalf of others. he's fighting for himself. he's refusing to pay fees that thousands of other ranchers have no problem with. in this country, you're allowed to challenge laws you think are unjust. i've done that myself. i protested the bombings in viegas and even served 90 days in jail for this belief. if mr. bundy believes in his cause so much, why won't he do thoo? that? >> joi

martin luther king's endless slow campaign and crusade. johnson's skill.x way of getting the bill through the senate, there are forgotten people. clarence mitchell. known as the 101st senator when there were only five black members of congress. he was a diligent person prowling the hallways working on this bill. one of the most important members of the house, william mccullough. he was crucial. he believed in civil rights. >> talk about an interesting exchange between president johnson and his press secretary, george ready. ready told a reporter johnson was continuously in touch with martin luther king and he did not like that. >> this was in the aftermath of the signing of the bill. george ready had been asked by reporters if the president had talked to martin luther king. he had. but johnson didn't like the idea that he was too close to king. king was still a controversial figure at that time. he wasn't the saintly figure he's become in memory. johnson new how politically risky the bill had become. he knew it would pu the democrats in trouble for the fut

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. >> on this day in april, 1968, martin luther king jr. was assassinated while standing on the balcony of his room in memphis, tennessee. as news of his death spread, violence broke out in more than 100 american cities. bobby kennedy was campaigning that night for president in indianapolis when he got word that king had died. the local police chief warned him speaking to the crowd could be too dangerous but bobby kennedy pushed ahead and asking them to pray for the king family and to continue his legacy of nonviolence. john lewis describes what happened next. >> you were with bobby kennedy in indiana that terrible night when dr. king was killed. tell me about that night. >> on april 4th, 1968, i was working for the kennedy campaign, trying to help organize a rally in support of bobby kennedy. and we heard earlier during the evening that dr. king had been shot. but we didn't know his condition. we continued to organize and there was some debate whether robert kennedy should come in and speak. and some of us said he got to come and speak to

this was the martin luther king day parade in spokane, washington, in 2011. a 36-year-old white supremacist packed fishing weights and other shrapnel dipped into rat poison into a backpack bomb and left it on the scene of the martin luther king day parade in spokane in 2011. he pled guilty later that year. he was sentenced to 32 years in prison. part of what prosecutors used to try to influence the judge in his case to lengthen his sentence is that after he was arrested in spokane, once he was in jail on suspicion of having been the bomber of the martin luther king day parade, that confessed bomber from jail exchanged letters with the guy who shot up the two jewish facilities and killed those three people this weekend in kansas city. frazier glen cross wrote to the mlk day bomber and offered to be a character witness. offered to set up a defense fund for him. did media interviews about the mlk bomber case, telling talking points memo at the time, i have been conversing with him on the internet for years. i had a very strong opinion of his intellect, and most

martin luther king jr. face of the civil rights movement to at least most white americans and i wanted to play a little tape. you know this tape so well because you've cure ated all of the audio -- >> this is lbj talking to dr. king. >> i think one of the great tributes that we can pay in memory of president kennedy is to try to enact some of the great progressive policies that he sought to initiate. i'm going to support them all and you can count on that and do my best to get other men to do likewise. i never needed your help more than i do now. >> you know you have it and feel free to call on us for anything. >> thank you so much, martin. >> the date is november 25th, 1963. we're talking three days -- >> day of the jfk funeral. >> that is a call made. do you think lbj knew at that time that j. edgar hoover was eavesdropping on dr. king? >> he certainly found out very soon and that was something he had all sorts of a.m. bifl enss about. lyndon johnson comes into office, and made a pretty good civil rights

king senior -- father of martin luther king junior.e influence waned the of the more militant organizations, the student nonviolent coordinating committee and the black panthers . the ford and rockefeller foundations moved in. in 1970, they donated $15 million to moderate black organizations, giving people grants, fellowships, job training programs are dropouts, and seed money for black-owned businesses. repression, infighting, and the trap of funding led to the gradual atrophying of the radical black organizations. martin luther king, the firm in connection between capitalism, imperialism, racism, and the vietnam war. as a result, after he was assassinated, even as memory became toxic to them, a threat to public order. foundations and corporations worked hard to remodel his legacy to fit the market-from the format. the martin luther king center for nonviolent social change within operational grant of $2 million was set up by, among others, the ford motor company, general motors, mobile west electric, procter & gamble, u.s. steel, and

martin luther king.epeats itself and so does stupidity. fort hood, texas, is once again the site of a tragic shooting. 16 wounded, four dead. the shooter killed himself when a heroic m.p. pulled her gun on them. authorities investigated mental issues and a personal dispute, not terrorism. since this is a tragic repeat of history, i'm just going to repeat this comment. and i quote, military base shootings could be halted for good with the stroke of obama's pen. all he has to do is rescind bill clinton's 1993 order banning military personnel from carrying side arms. that action turned it into a gun-free zone. why? is anyone better trained to carry a weapon than the u.s. military? yet when they were under siege at fort hood or at the navy yard, they had to wait helplessly for the police to come and save them. it's not only deadly, it's as senseless as banning construction workers from carrying hammers. end of quote. now, if you wonder who said that, well, that was said by me on my daily radio commentary bac

martin luther king museum and while dr.ng was certainly a central figure in this narrative, what we realize was that we needed people to hear the voices of every day people, the colvins, people who actually did things, ruby bridges, folks like charles steele, those individuals that people doesn't know every day, they're not common days, they're every day people who took extraordinary stands, had the courage of their convictions to stand and indeed made a difference in this country and hopefully through their stories, all of us vicariously can be inspired to make a difference today. >> rashad, one of the things i love about this museum, you approval visited before the renovation, it shows a full arc -- i hold you up as one of our modern civil rights leader as we talk about marriage equality and ongoing struggle in civil justice. that's so important for your generation and younger generations to feel brought into and engaged by this movement. >> absolutely. so often when we hear about the civil rights movement today we hear a

petertin luther king, seeger. doest they are dead. what david crosby believe in?eve in the same things i believed in the first place. i think the value of the human individual is crucial for the whole thing. not believe the founding fathers of this country intended the guy with the biggest tv theld get the keys to kingdom. masscouldn't envision media. they couldn't envision you could just buy populations and shape it. are in a lot of trouble if you want to know the truth, but i don't want to get discouraged. i don't want to let that make me shut up. tavis: you are not shutting up to my thankfully. a lot of great stuff. is there a message you want to communicate through this? why these tracks? i am trying to get a sense of what is on this for everyday people. >> story, glimpses of stuff that is true, celebrations of the things we liked in the first ,ase, love, intelligence loyalty, gentleness, kindness, empathy, looking out for your brother. tavis: i feel like -- if i am wrong you can let me. >> -- slap me. >> slap the guy your size? tavis: i love you so much i wou

is the last one is on why martin luther king had to die. and it focuses on the poor people's campaign. what martin luther king understood, what we have to understand is that we need a real countervailing force against the forces of capitalism and wealth. and we don't really have that. unions are the closest that we have. so we have to really start organizing, for one thing, supporting unions again, fighting against the demonization of unions. .. >> he found several broad principles and goals that would encompass most of the people in america, this poor people's campaign, and so to bring people together with common interests to fight against those who are in power and those who have and positions of exploitation. that is to say that you can't come together around narrow interests but you have to use broad interest and realize that it really is us against them in almost a class warfare cents. those who are empowering are doing everything they can to push back and dismantle and disempower and they almost -- it's almost like they cohere into a

. >> i thought about what reverend martin luther king said. and i thought about rosa park taking her seat at the front of the bus. now, reverend martin luther king did not -- did not want her to take her seat in the front of the bus. that wasn't what he was talking about. he did not say go to the front of the bus and that's where your seat was. what reverend king wanted was that she could sit anywhere in the bus and nobody would say anything about it. and you and i can sat by her anywhere on the bus. that's what he wanted. that's what i want. i want her to be able to sit anywhere in the bus and i want to be able to sit by her anywhere in that bus. that's what he wanted. he didn't want this prejudice thing like media tried to put on me yesterday. i'm not going to put up with that. that's not what he wanted. that's not what i want. i want to set by her anywhere in that bus and i want anybody to be able to do the same thing. that's what he was after. not a prejudice thing but make us equal. do you understand what i'm saying? >> you know what, i k

and i thought about what reverend martin luther king said. thought about rosa park taking her seat at the front of the bus. now reverend martin luther king did not -- did not want her to take her seat in the front of the bus. that wasn't what he was talking about. he did not say go to the front of the bus and that's where your seat was. what reverend king wanted was she could sit anywhere in the bus and that nobody would say anything bit. and you and i could sit anywhere near her in the bus. that's what he wanted. and that's what i wanted. >> that's one reading of the history. bundy went on to say he doesn't know how to talk these ethnic groups. is it ignorance or a symbol of something more. or he isn't educated on how to talk about these issues or is he just racist? >> i think cliven bundy lacks the courage of his convictions. he is unreconstructed raceist. now that he is in the limelight he is trying to back pedal. i'm disappointed. i wish he would stand when o when he said black people need to go back to picking cotton and maybe we were ha

that martin luther king would be standing side by side with him on this point. i can't speak to it and i don't think that rand paul or sean or anyone else had any idea this is what his views were or how he ultimately felt about black people, seeing black people sitting in their neighborhood on a stoop and thinking they would be better off as slaves. that's the height of stupidity. for a lot of these folks, the initial cause celeb about the constitution and his rights to be the rampbler and to defend his popularity. >> he had a beef with the federal government's continued overreach. and suddenly this became a question when he made some inappropriate comments. that's absolutely ridiculous. >> here's a guy standing up and making a huge issue of it. >> the republican party wouldn't have the pob it has with the cliven bundys in its midst if a grown-up had come up at the beginning when the tea party was getting up and running and saying what's happened on the fringes of our party is not right and we have to speak out about this. i went back and remembered a new york t

the balcony where martin luther king jr. was killed, the cars outside and the room where he last slept look the way it did in 1968. beyond the walls is a museum designed to counteract the movement in an interactive way, starting with the slave movement. >> we saved space so you could crowd down and see what it looked like to be touching one person for months as they travel through. you can hear the slaves, what they were going through. when it opened in 1991, the national civil rights museum painted a picture of the movement. new exhibits highlighted churches, and homes, while introducing lesser known soldiers. >> it's important to know that it's not just the few, there were thousands of stories that need to be told. >> what did you come here for. >> iconic exhibits like the sit-in lunch counters replicate the sounds. you cap sit in a cell where dr king wrote his letter. it is in a new environment, col pleat with statues of women. every day women who could have been rows apart, wanting a seat on the bus. a primary exhibit is

. >>> it's been 46 years since martin luther king was assassinated on a memphis motel balcony.he civil rights leader is known for his "i have a dream" speech. $20 million of renovation, reopening with an in-depth look at history. al jazeera's jonathan martin takes us inside. >> reporter: the lorraine motel seems to be froze no one time. the balcony where martin luther king was shot and killed, the cars outside and room 306 looked the way they did in 1968. but beyond those walls is a museum that has been transformed, designed to chronicle the civil rights movement in an interactive and emotional way starting with slavery in the 1600s. >> they saved some space so you can cross down and see what it feefelt like to be touching one person for months as they traveled through. you can hear actual sounds. you can hear what they were going through. >> when it opened in 1991 the national civil rights museum painted a picture of the movement, but new exhibits go in-depth highlighting the significance of things like churches, homes, and lands african-americans and lesser known foot soldier

martin luther king at one point said that we want hearts and minds to change. a broader, deeper conception of public opinion. that is ultimately what we're aiming for. but we'll take structural legal change today if that's what we can get, and we trust that hearts and minds will follow. he reversed the old orthodoxy equation of conservative social scientists like williams graham somner who says you can't use the state to change deeply rooted traditions, cannot change folkways, and dr. king says that's wrong. if you change the state, change the law, people will follow and that's often the way they approached it. i think it's fair to say that's often the way they won. >> certainly that's true, and in the case of the 1964 civil rights act, whose job was to finish what the civil war had supposedly finished 100 years before, there are clear lie two elements in which public opinion played a huge role. one were the searing demonstrations in birminghamin' 1963 at the time that dr. king was sent to jail and wrote his famous letter and the police dogs and fire hosts knoc

>> dishonors martin luther king junior. and here is why. dr. martin luther king jr.s warfare. this robin hood tax is a class warfare tax. nothing to do with how much money we spend on the military, so i happen to think this dishonors it. addressing the right problem, and the right problem that they ought to be addressing is how do you get the graduation rate up for minorities in this country, more college graduates so they can be on wall street rather than attacking wall street? i happen to believe it dishonors dr. king because he did not stand for class warfare. stuart: how about the tax itself? is proposed it would take half a percent out of all financial transactions. that would actually be a money gusher for the government if it were actually imposed. they go so far as to say this would take care of high-frequency trading problem because every single time he ever made one of these high-frequency trades you would be paying a tax discouraging high-frequency trading. what do you make of that? >> i don't think it would. in terms of it being a gusher for the governmen

martin luther king jr.'s closest associate. it was fitting those two were paired together.s it was when mrs. abernathy participated and protested in her native alabama, the work of civil rights requires a combination of activism and legal acumen, individual bravery and institutional knowledge. from the beginning of the civil rights movement, skilled attorneys worked alongside expertly planned public demonstrations to produce the fragile victories that spanned the heroic period during brown versus the board of education and the votes rights act. the shriver center, is still doing that work. and when the bravery of four plaintiffs from that group of 300 potentially displaced families in joliet met the legal expertise and commitment to civic justice that the center continues to embody in the tradition of its founder who was the driving force behind the peace corps under the administration of his brother-in-law jfk and the man lyndon johnson tasked with implementing the war on poverty through programs like headstart. it was an unstoppable force. those tenants won their fight wi

. >> is this what martin luther king gave his life for? is this what lyndon johnson employed his legendary skills for? is this what america has become, a great, diverse, thriving democracy for, to restrict the franchise? we have too many current challenges to waste a day trying to re-create a yesterday that we're better off done with. >> good morning from beautiful austin, texas. here on the campus, of course, of the university of texas. right behind me, the lbj library where all of these speeches and events have been taking place all week. big one later today with president obama. let's get started with my first read of the morning, and we begin with just that. just over three hours from now, president obama will deliver the keynote address here to mark the 50th anniversary of lbj's 1964 civil rights act. it's the latest chapter, and in a sometimes complicated, tense relationship, apparently between the families of the 36th president and the 44th president. few things annoy this white house more than the kind of advice "washington post" c

just a trilogy of articles on martin luther king and "huffington post." the first tour in the archives. you can look them up under by name. the last one is why martin luther king had to die. it focuses on the poor people's campaign. what martin luther king understood and what we have to understand is we need a real contra failing force against the forces of capitalism and wealth and we don't really have that. the union is the closest that we have so we have to really start organizing for one thing supporting unions again, fighting against the demonization of unions. how can people praised donald trump and demonize union workers folks who really work and in fact most of the rights that we take for granted came through the union. we need to focus on structuring unions again. also with the poor people's campaign came self-consciously found several broad principles and broad goals that would encompass most of the people in america in the poor people's campaign and to bring people together with common interests to fight against those who were in power and thos

first question the other day was plaintiffively, is it true martin luther king was only five-foot-six? [laughter] yes. next question? yes, sir? >> i compliment you on a speech full of wisdom, really, just have to listen and be totally impressed, and i think the most ironic thing with your speech is that the people who can benefit the most, work 300 yards from where you are speaking are not here to listen as we did of beautiful speech. thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> just one quick comment on that, the members of congress didn't show us the march on washington 50 years ago either. there were on only a couple. in 1963, they had a quorum call to spread in the record the names of anybody not there because they wanted to attack anybody who showed up at this march. never be convinced that the march on washington 50 years ago was a warm and fuzzy event. there were riot troops stationed all around. they canceled elective surgeries, and, to me, they eliminated -- ban lick tore sales for the first time since prohibition, but, to me, the real kicker is that major league baseball, which ha

martin luther king.r this bhap >>> fort hood texas, once again the site of a tragic shooting. authorities investigated mental issues and a personal dispute, not terrorism. i'm just going to repeat this comment and, quote, military base shootings could be halted for good with the stroke of obama's pen all he's got to do is rescind bill clinton's 1993 order banning military personnel from carrying side arms. that action turned our bases into gun-free zones or as i call them, sitting-duck zones why? is anyone better trained to carry a weapon than the u.s. military? yet under siege at fort hood they had to wait helplessly for the police to come save them. any u.s. military members from carrying guns is not only deadly but as senseless as banning construction workers from carrying hammers, end of quote if you wonder who said that, well, that was said by me on my daily radio comment teary back september 19th, to 13. yet the policy still stands. and a lot more victims no longer can. that is it for now. that is

martin luther king at his side. as president johnson said those words, mr. lewis saw dr. will march from selma to montgomery, dr. king said with tears in his eyes. the voting rights act will pass. dr. king and mr. lewis made their march from selma to montgomery and president johnson passed the voting rights act. if we have overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice it is largely because of courage and fortitude of those like lyndon johnson, martin luther king and john lewis. ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming to this stage, congressman john lewis. [ applause ] >> thank you, mark, and the staff of the lyndon johnson library. my beloved friends, my sisters and brothers, i have the special honor to introduce the keynote speaker of this celebration of the civil rights act of 1964. it is so fit iting and so appropriate that president barack obama would join us today to honor the legacy of president lyndon johnson. now, president barack obama was born into a dangerous and difficult time in american history. a time when people were arrested and taken t

february but has been classified as active since 1999. 46 years after the assassination of martin luther king, jr., the national civil rights museum reopened today in memphis hoping to bring a new generation into this country's civil rights narrative. nbc's ron allen has the story. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: with that, a new era begins for the national civil rights museum. it was until that unforgettable moment in american history just a typical memphis motel. >> martin luther king, jr. was killed tonight in memphis, tennessee. >> reporter: king was assassinated on the balcony of the lorraine motel 46 years ago this weekend and, like the powerful images of that moment, the motel was preserved in time. king's room, number 306, as it was for visitors to see, lunch, the day's newspaper still there. >> this museum after 22 years needed to be updated, needed to be engaging to a younger generation. >> reporter: 18 months and some $30 million privately contributed dollars later it's more dynamic and interactive and expanded beyond tributes to icons like rosa parks. new exhibits explor

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martin luther king, stop the carmichael. but what happens when elected the civil-rights movement on the ground. the people who are organizing facade, sort of the glue of the movement. historians help to highlight that. so what i wrote, and someone is and trying to mercy's approaches, trying to tell the story within the old civil-rights history for earmarked in the sense that it is a great story. and non violent mass march in and try to incorporate the ideas of new civil rights history. how grass-roots organizers shape the movement, women are born, international context is important and also held by power is a much more complicated program in a much more positive slogan than the previous historian don just to give you an example. the black power in america. waiting until the midnight hour. stow carmichael. and black power and with him a number of others, but he got to see black power in a new framework. in terms of its positive aspects , uplifting aspects, the way that shapes the whole movement first. >> can you speak l.a. mo

. >> it's been 46 years since martin luther king wag asass -- was assassinated on a memphis balliony. years after his death memphis turned the hotel into the national civil right museum. after renovations it's reopening with an indepth look at history. >> the lorraine motel seems to be frozen in time. the balcony where martin luther king was shot and killed, the cars outside, and room 306 where he last left looked the way it did in 1978. beyond the walls is a museum that's been transformed, designed to chronicle the human rights movement, starting with slavery in the 1600s. >> we saved space so that you can crouch down and see what it felt like to actually be touching one person for months as they travelled through. you can hear sounds. you can hear what they were going through. >> when it opened in 1991, the national civil rights museum painted a picture of the movement. new exhibits go in depth, highlighting churches, homes. it introduced lesser known foot soldiers. >> it's important that folks know it's not just the few we know about, thousands of stories need to be told. >> iconic

martin luther king. [applause] >> dr. martin luther king. in whatn with you today will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history. [applause] , a greate years ago american in whose shadow we stand today signed the emancipation proclamation. as amomentous decree came beacon light of hope for many searedlaves who had been in the flames of withering injustice. it came as joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. later, the negro still is not free. life of theter, the negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. is onars later, the negro the island of poverty, in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. 100 years later -- [applause] still languished in american society and finds himself in exile in his own land. [applause] we must remind america of the urgency of now. now is the time. to rise from the dark valley of segregation to racial justice. now is the time. [applause] to rise from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock o

martin luther king, jr.led a king." ♪ ♪ they killed a king >> please welcome back to the show, sam moore. great to have you back, my friend. thank you. you played many, many times with everybody i can think of. from springsteen, you played with everybody, goes across the gamut. and one of the things, this music you've done with the song about martin luther king, i hope people will go to the website and watch it. but you know we're not going to let you come on here and not play one of the great hits that put you in the rock 'n' roll hall of fame. >> why? >> i just figured, first of all, being able to play with you is a big thrill for me. and we want to make sure that we play one that everybody will just absolutely love. >> but you got on your bass. >> we're going to play it. you're going to do it. you've got to, sam. >> but you're playing? >> i'm playing because it's my show. it's that simple. >> you ain't got to get mad. >> we have some of the little rockers playing with sam's band today. we're excited to ju

the act was a culmination of a partnership lyndon baines johnson and martin luther king, jr.. and it was in may of 1964 in the midst of a 60-day filibuster that king appeared on "face the nation" to lobby support for the act. >> from washington d.c., the reverend martin luther king, jr. >> southern democrats some johnson's closest friends and allies wanted no part of the bill. and mounted the filibuster to block it. king was clearly worried. >> we find now that the darkness are much more active and co conscientious and determined. >> the message was one of simple logic. >> injustice and if this bill does not go through, it will jeopardize the strength and maturity and health of our nation. >> as king mounted a crusade johnson pulled out all the political stops. he spoke out, negotiated, threatened, made deals and most importantly made an ally of senate republican leader dirkson. when the bill passed johnson insisted on signing it at the capitol rather than the white house. because, he said, some who voted for it would be defeated in the next election and he owed it to them. >>

. >>> on this day in 1968, civil rights leader martin luther king jr.rted by nbc's chet hutly. >> martin luther king jr. was killed tonight in memphis, tennessee, shot in the face as he stood alone on the balcony of his hotel room. he died in the hospital an hour later. last night he said this -- >> we got some difficult days ahead. >> in today's birthdays, illusionist david blaine turns 41. actor robert downey jr. is 49. and actor craig t. nelson turns 70. >>> i'm francis rivera, thank you for watching "early today." happy friday. have a great weekend. it's never been easier to find a dentist. watch. dentist. [ popping ] now you have to figure out which one takes your insurance... [ sighs ] okay. now, a dentist you trust and feel comfortable going to. hrmm. i know. at 1-800-dentist, we've helped over 8 million people find that right dentist, and we can do the same for you. [ chuckles ] so don't put it off. call 1-800-dentist today. ♪ >>> good friday morning to you. i'm scott mcgrew. >> i'm peggy bunker in for laura garcia-cannon. that breaking news hap

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adt -- always there. >> martin luther king jr.ver preached class warfare and this robin hood tax is a class warfare attacks. has nothing to do with how much money we spend on the military. i think this is part of it. stuart: i think we lost audio right before the end. we got congressman keith ellison linking this robin hood tax which is a tax on all financial transactions linking it to the anniversary of the assassination of martin luther king. that is what herman cain was commenting on friday talking about robin hood tax. we got a lot of feedback from you on that tax and on herman cain's appearance. gary says i think you are giving robin hood a bad name. he didn't just steal from the rich, he stole from the government and gave to the middle and lower class, the victims of the government. i like that interpretation. daniel jokes we the people should rob keith ellison and redistribute his wealth to small businesses in his district. key to comments coming. you are raising your hand. >> there's a rally saturday april 20th in washingt

martin luther king would have done or thought. today's ruling moves us closer in being judged not on the color of your skin but the content of your character. there isn't showing in the state of michigan that in fact this remedy is a response to some past injustice. when you have jurisdictions that simply say diversity is its own goal, the court said today clearly that's something for any community to be able to decide how they would like to handle -- >> eugene, let's let eugene talk. >> there is a context here. there's a context here in michigan. for well over a decade now, administrators have been trying their best to keep a policy of affirmative action in order to have a diverse campus, because they believe that's important. they believe that's important, not only for the education of black students but for the education of all students. they believe it makes the university of michigan a better environment. the president of the university of michigan has followed it up. this is something the university wants to be able to do an

martin luther king, jr.'s final year. let me just start with you, evan. so now it is gay rights. is that the next chapter of the civil rights struggle that has been going on for so long? >> i wouldn't call it the next chapter. i think it is part of the same struggle. i think what the struggle has president obama said is that the civil rights movement did so much to lay the foundation for and president johnston's work and all the millions of others was to create an america that s'more perfect union for everybody and gay people are part of that everybody but as we just saw and heard and said we are not done with any of these fights on any of these fronts that overlap anyway and my blood boils when i see voter suppression, the assault on women's access to conception that we are debating that, so it is not a matter of this or that or that, civil rights is about the america we want for everybody, where everybody can participate and contribute. >> george bush was talking about closing the achievement gap, nikole, wha what does that meano you? >> i just find it interesting that we have

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