martin luther king, jr. and rosa parks provided a way out, maybe a way in. >> host: in "march: book 1", the most recent, one of the early stories in here you kind of flip back from current day to your past life. and one of the stories here is a woman bringing her two sons to your office, and you were there. is this allegorical or a real story? how often does this happen? >> guest: this is the real story. people come all the time. i believe on that occasion it was the day of the inauguration that the woman came in. but i get letters and telephone calls, i want my children to meet you. i just want to come by for five minutes. we try to accommodate people. and sometimes people will wait and they come from a distance. some will write a letter, make a telephone call themcome all the way from california to washington, d.c., or from some other part, if i make it to washington i want to come by and see you. i have people come up sometimes, and they said i just want to feel you, our human? i say, yeah. another proble

>> it's a pleasure to have a you here at the martin luther king academy is school for this important celebration. i service in the district. before i serve say a few words i want to thank and acknowledge some important individuals that are with us morning. if i miss someone which i will i wanted to thank you all a general thank you for being here today. i think today, we be mark in our calendars as a seminal chafrng point in public education in san francisco moving forward. before i go any further i want to recognize our members our elected commissioner commissioner joel winning who's with us this morning (clapping) >> i'd like to recognize commissioner matt haney who is with us thank you. and playing a dual rule the mayors commissioner mendosa mcdonald who is here with us (clapping) and the heroes in my mind absolutely the folks that led the work effecting lives each and every day our entire principle group is here today. can you stand so we can applaud you? thank you. thank you for being here. and obviously, we want to thank our principle here at martin luther king middle school na

i live at the 5900 third street from martin luther king park. i'm going to talk about a little bit nobody has mentioned including supervisor cowen and - nobody has mentioned martin luther king pool and the park. the first mention was this woman here and there are homeless there all the time and kids that play in that park. i think adding one hundred more homeless people in that neighborhood is not a good idea for the children. i'm here as a concerned resident from the bayview neighborhood to ask the committee to strip the fund for the neighborhood before you. the bayview already carries more than it's share of the burn in helping the homeless and this homeless warehouse will be blocks from one of the only blocks and pun pool in the neighborhood. the bayview needs to attract gorgeous and not new poverty. we need a living wage for the people who live here. internal revenue a carpenter here for over 20 years oh, binge get the hook. i live in san francisco since 1999 and bought in the bayview because it's a great working-class neighborhood and has a

he thought martin luther king.k, "let freedom ring," it's really the biography of one day in our life. august 28, 1963. and it shows you the tussle between president kennedy, who didn't want the march on washington, felt that the city was going to be covered in blood, chaos, violence. and martin luther king, who said the march will go on. and the two of them. there is negotiation after the negotiation. finally, in that picture you showed of president kennedy speaking to rfk. he said, well, if we can't stop it, will control the thing and they did. the march was decided it would be on wednesday so that people couldn't take weekends on either side and stay in washington too long. they only got a permit to be on federal grounds from 9:00 a.m. and they had to be out of the city. out of the city by 5:00. they nationalized the national guard, the fbi. the establishment in washington, including the owner of the "washington post" just felt there was going to be chaos throughout the city. restaurants closed, retail shops clo

commission which we have called to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the march on washington and martin luther king jr.'s i have a dream speech. now it's especially nice to give our hero awards and not only do we have a number of wonderful recipients here but some great qualified nominees and a number of our honor reese from prior years. after the meeting we will have an at some point to have a special reception downstairs where we'll also -- down the hall. 201, where we'll take some time to celebrate this wonderful occasion. i would like to call the meeting to order and ask the commission secretary to please read the roll. >> michael sweet, davis, kel her, not present at the moment, i -- lee, todd davis not present. you have a quorum. >> thank you, madam secretary. the first item on the agenda is public comment that will enable to you speak on miss the issues. if you wish to address this commission, i would encourage you to fill out a speaker card. there will be time later in the meeting to speak on the awards that are being given and the honor reese. this is to only speak on any item, not on

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he thought martin luther king.k, "let freedom ring," it's really the biography of one day in our life. august 28, 1963. and it shows you the tussle between president kennedy, who didn't want the march on washington, felt that the city was going to be covered in blood, chaos, violence. and martin luther king, who said the march will go on. and the two of them. there is negotiation after the negotiation. finally, in that picture you showed of president kennedy speaking to rfk. he said, well, if we can't stop it, will control the thing and they did. the march was decided it would be on wednesday so that people couldn't take weekends on either side and stay in washington too long. they only got a permit to be on federal grounds from 9:00 a.m. and they had to be out of the city. out of the city by 5:00. they nationalized the national guard, the fbi. the establishment in washington, including the owner of the "washington post" just felt there was going to be chaos throughout the city. restaurants closed, retail shops clo

they had someone write something that was celebrate tore, but martin luther king didn't even go because he was so disgusted. after a while as events transpired, and the president paid more and more attention martin felt a lot better about it, but it was an uneasy relationship in the beginning. >> why is president kennedy such an icon in so many of the homes of african-americans in this country? and to what extent does that point to that speech in june of 1963, the race speech? >> what black people saw jfk as, what the black people saw jfk as, and they should see him that way, they see him as the embodiment of leadership from that turning point when he started to show real leadership. they saw some of it when he sent troops to ole miss. then they saw it in this speech. they saw it in this speech, but black people saw him, and i saw him at that time as somebody who was then crucified, as it were, since he was assassinated, for his beliefs. here was this young vibrant leader, and most black people did not know all the details of what actually happened. they saw him as this young, vibrant l

martin luther king we think of his dream and it's amazing we can compare our dream to the students nowe base is the same we want all children to have quality education and jobs and just putting it out there to sales force. especially on this side of the city too much students don't think about the kind of careers in technology and with a college degree and technical degrees and all the was a to educate themselves to be part of the future. so one thing is when the kids see the t-shirts 33 they see themselves maybe i could work for the mayor or be the superintendent not too much want to be the principle. we want to visiting i to see the kids and technology in use. so we're going to ask the two folks we have 3 groups we're going to ask you to come and join some classrooms we don't have room for everybody but if you can stay we'll take you around for the second showing of the classrooms. thank you so much for being here i'm speaking for my comrades and all our students thank you for being our reporters you two (clapping) >> thank you so much for being here and i think that wrapz it up we c

martin luther king jr. and others of the leadership of the march on washington into the white house. >> absolutely. and not only did that, but he called loretta scott king, locked in the birmingham jail. >> yes. >> that alone helped african-americans to see him in a brand-new way. as someone who will reach out and care about their issues and embrace them in a way that no president had done before. >> sally, there is this popular meme going around conservatives who are actually claiming that jfk was one of them. now, he admittedly wasn't the most liberal democrat, but between civil rights, treaty, the peace corps and so on, what's your take on kennedy as a conservative? >> i want to pick up on a thread goldie mentioned, which is this call he made, and bobby kennedy called to get martin luther king released from prison. this covert political action. they didn't do publicity -- there were no tweets, no blog posts, no press conferences. they did it quietly to send a message to african-american voters while at t

>> next anyone 6 o'clock at martin luther king. >> at martin luther king. >> we've shown to the advocates and we have great directions with those leadership there and we put the word out there seeing please send our parents leaders and we've been trying to find teachers. the teachers ask us for a stipend and nobody's getting a stipend but we ask for the teachers for going to another meeting >> mr. mendosa and anyone. >> i want to thank the b cc for they're hard work. i know you keep us busy with the e-mails we're asking some pertinent questions thank you for the opportunity to introduce to the board and everyone our new director of mpd lewis can you stand so the board can see who you are. multiple lingual pathways department (laughter) but lewis is jimd in and been a great service to the b cc >> thank you superintendent and a number of board members thank you very much for the amount of time and effort you put into this year i know you wouldn't do this if you didn't care about the families in the district. we're grateful and thank you. clearly there's a lot of issues that need to be worke

and obviously, we want to thank our principle here at martin luther king middle school natalie for opening her doors to us (clapping) >> i'd like to okay as well as our assistant superintendant ms. jean i didn't pond. (clapping). >> our director of middle schools mr. richard curbing i didn't (clapping). >> and you may have heard r a word or two is our superintendant that supervisors our k 12 schools and, of course, i will introduce him look at later in the program but your absolutely visionary and leader of '71 of san francisco mr. ed lee mayor thank you. and a try visionary and a great great citizen of san francisco and also our partner mr. benny thank you for being here (clapping) >> i'd like to recognize two corporate's partners here today mr. ken at zinc good who partnered u.s.s. from auto deck mr. carl he's not here but titus his entire team is auto deck thank you. just a couple more introductions, if you will, many of those conversations are ongoing but i personally remember a dinner that i tenant a little bit more than a year ago and we talked about the dream we had. but i also want

some would say that h he de -legitimatized martin luther king.nd malcolm x said that was the philosophy of the fool. >> self defense was a peter way to define it. he was not promoting violence, however, he said if someone hits you, you have every right to retaliate. and in fact, he said it in far more graphic terms, you send i them to the cemetery. >> that's why i say the interpretation-- >> yes, the interpretation. the opposite of non-violence is violence. but it's not something that malcolm x promoted. he was talking about self defense. >> the racism has become more mainstream and his skated. and in summary black nationalism today is a little more than a slogan, perhaps something for a t-shirt vendor. and professor west refused to speak forthrightly about black nationalism because they have an unbalanced perspective on malcolm. and we have a vlog, take a live. >> what concerns me most about malcolm x's legacy today. is how much it's under assault and the continued relevance of the analysis today. too little is done to grapple with the ideas tha

martin luther king's closest advisors. taught us, he says, that it's in the action that we find out who we really r and time and again reverend vivian was among the first to be in the action. one of the first freedom writers. and on the courthouse steps to register blacks to vote for which he was beaten, bloodied, and jailed. rosa parks said of him, even after things are supposedly been taken care of and we had our rights, he was still out there inspiring the next generation. including me. helping kids go to college for a program that would become upward bound. and at 89 years old, he's still out there pushing us closer to our founding-year-olds. now early in the morning the day of the march on washington, the national mall was far from full. but the marches chief organizer, bayard rustin, didn't panic. as the story goes, he looked down at a piece of paper and reassured reporters that everything was right on schedule. the only thing that they didn't know was that the paper he was holding was blank. he didn't know how it wa

ct vivian was one of martin luther king's gradest advisors.everend vivian was among the first to be in the action. in 1947 joining a it is-in to integrate an illinois restaurant, one of the first freedom riders in selma, for which he was beaten, bloodied, and jailed. rosa parks said of him, even after things has supposedly been taken care of, he was still out there, inspiring the next again rakes, including me. helping kids go to college with a program that would become upward bound and at 89 years old, reverend vivian is still out there in the action pushing us closer to our founding ideas. early in the morning on the day on the march of washington, the march's chief organizer didn't panic as the story goes he looked down at a piece of paper and looked back up and reassured reporters that everything was right on schedule. the only thing those reporters didn't know was that the paper he was holding was blank. he didn't know how it was going to work out, but he had an unshakable optimism, nerves of steal, and most importantly the faith that if

martin luther king jr., thank you dr. king, because you shared your dream, i'm able to dream beyond what generations before me could even imagine. that is what fulfills my dream from my youth and my young adults. i truly just thank god that he allows know wake up everyday and do not only what i love but do what i feel i'm purposed to do. i want to thank the san francisco human rights commission for selecting me as the 2013 hero award recipient. i want to say thank you for nominating me. i don't think you will ever understand that the nomination means more than the actual award. if you only knew. i would like to briefly acknowledge a few heroes of my own on this day that marks the 50th year of the march on washington. wilhelm wundt -- one of the most profound speeches that we have heard. simply because i did not receive this award on my own. the first of my heroes are my parents. thank you for your support and love since the day i was born. it will allow me to find my purpose in this crazy thing we call life. i knew you wo

you remember martin luther king.nce the 1930s, j edgar hoover was listening into all of the civil rights leaders. he thought communism was behind it. the anti-vietnam war protest would've had informers all over it. the government has sealed this vacuum. so anything that is a protest movement will be subject to severe, severe penetration by the government. that is what you should fear. the civil rights may not have happened the way it happened. in other words, everything is positive for change that comes up in social life, we need change in our life, when those things happen, they will be able to happen because the government will be there to stamp down on it. tavis: who knows what kennedy would have done on vietnam? we can debate that for hours. what we do know is that john kerry, obama's secretary of state, fought in that war and, on "meet the press was quote, gregory tried to hit him to speak on a statement that he suggested that he doesn't believe that oswald acted alone. this thing is still being debated all thes

martin luther king jr. was a pastor who is voice inspired countless souls to fearlessly stand up and speak truth in the face of injustice and discrimination. in fact a recorded history, but particularly this past half century we've revealed that the tongues of clergy like dr. king have consistently spoken out in issues of discrimination, race, poverty and domestic disparity, immigration, and yes, sexual orientation. they dared to challenge society's conscience on all rights. it is dr. kings inspires that led to these decisions, presidential and executive orders and concongressional and equality. the hero awards are living and profound symbols of this tradition. remind us that we here today are stewards of that great legacy, but more importantly that our collective work to advance human and civil rights is far from accomplished. today's historic observance is also a reminder to those of us in our commission to honor those 5 decades of service and accomplishments of the san francisco human rights commission i

never had that question i got asked, do you think that barack obama, do you think that this was martin luther king's vision? no, martin was a leader and barack is a politician. i can be what i was because i never hated anybody. i was dealing with the situation. , i dealing with the family am a fan of the family and the family is a fan of you. , have had friends and students you can see that their parents are holding back. i do not want to say forget your mother or father, but you have to go beyond because you have experiences that are different. look at where we are right now. kids do not know albums. kids do not know record albums. kids do not know landline phones. there is a generation right behind us who will not know television because everything that they will see will be on their iphone. what you have to do is approach whatever it is you're dealing with as you understand and as you can make sense out of it. this is not psychology. writing is not a substitute for your analysts or something. writing is something that you can share that somebody can come back in 40 years -- i wrote my firs

and martin luther king jr., was one of the most bugged men in america.ements night and day. he was at the apex of a giant civil rights organization, on top of that he took on the vietnam war in 1965. when he did that, he combined it. saying the black troops in vietnam are killing colored people in that country and they can't get any rights at home. he had had a valid point. he also said we spent 300,000 he also said we spent 300,000 plus dollars to kill every viet cong, and spend $50 on every poor america. >> when you see obama saying, promising if you want to keep your doctor, you can. and now he has done this qualification, a lot of people are seeing that. what do you think -- >> i didn't know enough about that. i was disappointed when he said you can trust us. he implied we'll fix this thing. and it is like, you know that he is lying. and on top of it, you asked earlier, is had he in control of it? i don't think that he is, he himself may have been in for a few surprises, because i think the nsa is a beast of its own like the pentagon. and when it goe

we are at 36th and martin luther king junior way. you have one tree on this side of the roadway. but if you pan over here there are two more. you can see crews just arrived up there to try to clean that up. we were just up on the freeway and can show you what it looks like. that is interstate 580 westbound. the cleanup crews are busy. its been hours since these trees came down and its still unclear when they almost get that cleared up but they are working on it now. this storm, this wind event has taken at least two lives. i want to take you around to see where there is more serious incidents. let's take you over to austin and foothill boulevard that is around 8:00 last night the high winds knocked down a power line and electrocuted a man that was standing on the street. that area was roped off for a couple hours as they investigated what happened. we did go by this morning and it is back open. now let's take you over to the area of skyline boulevard and brandy rock way. that is where a volkswagen swerved to avoid debris on the road. the driver was killed. there are two victims a

because martin luther king jr.nding more and more like malcolm with a christian twist when he was shot dead. americans disapproved of him in 55% of black people disapproved of him because he was moving in a radical direction. to catch up with him and malcolm and the others. >> a note on how martin luther byg's legacy is so distorted the obama administration for the new head of homeland security. he said that martin luther king would have approved of the wars in afghanistan and iraq. you ask where we pushed -- where wentt the pressure, low we to the johnson house and showed the anti-drone film on his home. we projected it there. we also went to his confirmation hearing and made a fuss about that over there. the tippingow what point is going to be but it is an accumulation of things. as we hear over the course of the next two days with people acting with the court system, what they're doing putting pressure on congress, on the manufacturers of the drones, trying to reject the military, all of these are part of a proc

that is what martin luther took advantage of. the result was the reformation. >> how does that differ with mass media? >> the differences that when you have a social media system, whether it is today on the internet or in the old days, a social media system is a two-way conversational environment in which people are passing stuff directly to and from their friends. you are changing information along social networks. that is what we call it social media. this creates a distributed discussion or community. at is what it looks like. we are with that on facebook and twitter. we see stuff from people that we followed. the difference with mass media that it is a one-way. it is impersonal. it is top down broadcast. the radio sits in the corner of the room. it is not social. you're not having conversations with it. there is no networking or personal recommendations. we have come to think of these channels which can reach a broad audience efficiently as old media. the way media always was. and that social media is a change. news from our

he was against the march on washington sponsored by martin luther king. >> he was originally against it because the march was going to be cat the capital he was afraid it would make a scene as they were trying to intimidate congress. he and bobby kennedy were through negotiations moved it to the lincoln memorial. but what you said is right, kennedy was very disappointing to the civil rights leaders on civil rights. but when he gave this marvelous speech on the 11th that time martin luther king turned to companion said, can you believe that white man not only stood up to the plate, he hit it over the ballpark -- out of the ballpark. >> schieffer: larry, one of the nuggets in your new book that i found so interesting, the story about jackie kennedy called the civil war historian james robertson, the night of the assassination to ask for help putting together her husband's funeral. >> it really impressed me enormously when i first heard this i decided to stress it in the kennedy half century, because i think one of the most well-known stories and less told stories how jackie kennedy hel

martin luther king vs.arpton i will let those facts speak for themselves. >> leaders that make a difference. >> oprah playing a race card saying that a lot of the criticism directed towards president obama is the color of his skin. >> it's a widely held belief. >> is it true. >> yeah, it's it's absolutely true. >> you you think most of the criticism or much of the criticism. >> i didn't say that. >> directed at him is because he has dark skin? you you really believe that. >> no, that's not what i'm saying. i'm saying because is he african-american, because he was at harvard review, because is he a constitutional scholar, because is he uppity, things like rescuing the banks bailing out auto industry. putting al qaeda on heel. leadership against people who have been against him from day one, vitriolic, mean-spirited, hateful, before he even got, in the only question why this leader why now? >> what about bush the younger? wasn't he criticized as vehemently as president obama? >> no. >> you don't believe that.