mary frances berry and marian wright edelman. us.re glad you have joined those conversations coming up right now. ♪ by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tavis: dr. algernon austin is the author of "the unfinished march." good to have you on this program, sir. i want to jump right in, there in-depth you have done research on to give us some sort of portrait of where we are and where we are not, 50 years later. i want to jump right in and go in this particular order. first, these ghettos of poverty. how is it, why is it that 50 years after king tried to ring this bell, poverty is still threatening our democracy? how is it that poverty is now a matter of national security? >> the thing is is that there was some policies that importantly reduced poverty. but our commitment to poverty has really waned over the 70's, 80's, and in recent years. we have allowed a number of prevent all workers firm really sharing in prosperity. for example, one of the demands of the march was for a decent minimum wage. a

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they include marian wright edelman, founder of childrens defense fund, an activist at the time.of atlanta and former u.s. ambassador to united nations, and we spoke to julian bond who was a young activist on that day in the crowd singing "we shall overcome" and later went on to become a georgia state legislator. here is a little of what they had to say. >> when the train started unloading from the south and train load from philadelphia and then the movie stars flew in, then i realized this was really something big. >> yeah, you don't have many opportunities in life to come together with folk to say here is who we are, the people, least what we want to be, here is what we can be as a people. >> let me tell you a minute how frightened official washington was of this march, from a book called the bystander by nick bryant. all elective surgery in washington was cancelled, freeing350 beds for riot related emergencies, in the event of riot, policeman or national guards man stationed on every street corner in washington. deployed 200 scout cars, 86 motorcycle, 20 jeeps, police hell com