the next image describes martin luther king. the time magazine cover image of announcedennedy who his candidacy for the democratic party. he was antiwar. for a lot of things that lyndon johnson was not afford. the two men never got along. once kennedy entered the race, johnson knew that was it and stepped aside. theimage that we see here time cover was what appeared right after kennedy's assassination in los angeles. it is a very somber image of kennedy. andas the peace candidate was doing very well. he just won the california primary. the thing i remember about that is the funeral train, the train that left new york city to come to washington dc. he was part that she was buried in arlington cemetery. there were crowds of people who that 250t throughout mile journey from new york city. see high that you above in the center is of robert kennedy. wife helen. he was just ending a 25 day fast of those in california. they were trying to unionize. seanez was very involved in that. as's number one supporter in washington. kennedy arriv

before martin luther king jr. can respond, a shot rings out at 6:01 p.m, he is shot and he lays here on the balcony. [gunshot] when the shot rings out, the memphis police are running this way and many of dr. king's associates, including andrew young, jesse jackson, ralph abernathy are saying go that way. the shot came from this area over here where we see the photograph taken approximately three minutes later. he is taken from the balcony to st. joseph's hospital and is pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. ♪ take my hand precious lord lead me home ♪ >> the city of memphis was very much like the rest of the country and how it dealt with the aftermath of dr. king's death. people are angry, frustrated, and we see that frustration play out in a number of different ways. we see urban uprisings and a lot that in a lot of cities. over 100 cities have uprisings where the frustration and anger boiled out onto the streets and the neighborhoods. memphis is like a lot of cities in that way where this is happening. because it wasn't j

martin luther king, he is at a news conference. he is announcing his great initiative for that year. campaign was the the march on washington, poor people's march on washington. it continued, it went on. the march on washington occurred in mid-may. they will be on the mall. right alongside it. save their attention to the plight of the poor nationwide. the rain created mud for too many days there up to their ankles in mud. marker --y we chose chose martin luther king, this image of him. it's been asked why we didn't have anything restoring -- anything referring to his assassination. the answer is this room only holds certain images. we can't tell the entire story of martin luther king, but we have a video here. the next image besides martin is time magazine's f kennedy, of robert who in march announced his candidacy for the democratic party. for a lot of things lyndon johnson thing was not four. the two men never got along. once kennedy entered the race johnson knew that was it. and he stepped aside. the image we see here is a time

this is not -- i mean, the fbi was monitoring the tapes on martin luther king, all of that. from leaders up top to the grassroots leaders. there are fbi files you can look and see on them. i have not been able to find an fbi file on a beautician, even though these beauticians were involved in much of the same work, in some cases even more radical work than those who were being surveilled. when they do appear, and for example, bernie rogers who was in the article and we'll talk about that in a moment, her cousin appears in the fbi records, and she's identified in the article arz "some unidentified woman," right snt there are ways that because the beauty shop is viewed as frivolous. they were able to really flourish as political sites because they were --. beauty shops were able to slip under them. they were underestimated and that worked to their advantage. so let's talk about what was actually happening in these shops. and think about them within this larger context of the civil rights movement or the black freedom struggle. again, going back to our point about the master na

martin luther king jr. was assassinated on the balcony of the room lorraine motel. the national civil rights museum, we visit to learn about his final days and what brought him to memphis. >> when we study the history of pre-and there is post-april 4, 1968. dr. king had his nonviolent resistance following but after the assassination of malcolm x, you have the formation of the black panthers. leaders calling out for black power to take control of their own neighborhoods and communities. in ideologysplit and philosophy in which was the most effective way to combat civil rights in america. king was overshadowed by these black militants. was not receiving a high approval rating in the black community. the community in some ways turned their back. this was only supposed to be a detour for him, coming to memphis. he was going to lead a march and get to washington, d.c. later that month. and thosenists opposing dr. king's mission at this time are saying that he could not have a control margin in memphis. there was no way that he was going to be successful in washington. he

martin luther king, jr.. robert f. kennedy has been assassinated. the school has its first black principal, the segregated school and they want to do something special and the school principal tells them everybody is watching us so we can't show anger, we can't walk out like some of the high schools are doing. so first they when the state basket will championship and then 55 days later, all-black school wins the state baseball championship, for some history of the state that the same school wins two championships in one year. the fact that they want it against the backdrop of martin luther king assassination, vietnam war protests and other school walkouts gives it astonishing glory angle. >> host: how much of that was due to the principal? >> guest: he was an amazing man. he was a walk-on football player at ohio state university, and he was fierce, ferocious about pride. he cared about the students. also at the end of that year sit more kids to college, more kids went to college from this all-black high scho

. >> why do you think he influenced martin luther king jr. and so many people? why him? >> i would say, if you read doctor thurman and doctor king, you will see the influence. king the person who applied much of what ia reality. i to influence people. many people were interested in social action. king carried a copy of jesus and the disinherited. people solve social actions in his writings. it created a way forward to deal with critical issues and separation. he was -- for king in particular, the families knew each other. thurman new doctor king's father. >> mrs. thurmond new martin luther king's mother because they were daughters of ministers and they met through baptists circles. the families knew each other. when doctor thurman was at boston university, king was there finishing his doctorate. >> i hewent thurmato watce ries. they kw >> at that point when he was there talking to doctor thurman francisco to be pastor of the fellowship church. >> isn't that something. my question is what if he had come to sanford let's go in that of going? that is when she learned that h

martin luther king's murder on april 4, 1968.our collection the papers of the police director from 1968. a map named frank haulman, and some of the more interesting items we have first, we have a hand bill from the organize which was called citizens on the move from equality. which was the umbrella organize of civil rights group, including the labor movement, the naacp, southern christian leadership conference to coordinate protests during the strike, and the strike took place in february of 1968, because for a couple of reasons. one, the men worked under very unsafe working conditions. there were two african american workers robert walker and ethyl coal who were killed when a garbage truck malfunctioned. and the men were paid such a low wage that when those two men were killed, they simply had enough. and they decided they would strike for better wages, and for better working conditions. and it's quickly became not just a labor strike but a civil rights struggle as the local civil rights leadership joined jrces with the union an

martin luther king has been shot to death in memphis, tennessee. a young white man was seen running from the scene. card -- carpped contained two white men. martin luther king was standing on his balcony and a shot fired across the street.

we came up with margaret thatcher, we came up with reforms, martin luther and then martin luther king jr., his namesake. we came out with heroes. harriet tubman and the chinese admiral -- then we had a stand alone. the standalone was general robert e lee. and we put him because of all the figures in my life in my youth, he was the iconic leader. i went to the school he went to. and to me he was the exemplar of military and quality leadership. and it is complex to write about robert e lee now. and i have a complex relationship with his memory. but i did not think i could honestly write a book about leaders, without adjusting the one that had probably spent the most time in my life thinking about. >> you said that we -- you have a portrait of lee that you wife gave you and you threw it out. why did you change your mind about that? >> my wife of 41 years is in the back. when i was a second lieutenant, she spent $25 and bought me this painting of robert e lee. quite a painting you get for $25. framed! and it really was just a print of the more famous painting. and they put acrylic on it t

lord selma exclaimed bernie's king daughter of martin luther king it is no coincidence she tweeted thatselma with the struggle for voting rights of black people pushed doug jones ahead for good as the election results kept coming in the turnout surprised almost everyone. the south of the get out the vote campaign which made it seem so last-minute nonchalant pollsters and a significant barrier to the boardroom that alabama crafted brought about that a confidence that the blacks would just not vote and indeed the voter overall turnout rate was paltry 25 percent that was predicted even though he cast his ballot would have one. but more than 40 percent of voters showed up with surges will be on 50 percent in counties favorable to jones. the people of the black belt counties that was everything alabama could throw at them were equally impressive. an average of 73.4 percent of the votes in those counties with turnouts averaging 45.4 percent five percentage points higher than the state average. the black belt simply came through and while selma had more reeling birmingham delivered the knockou

that guy looks nothing like martin luther king. do you know who looks more like martin luther king?n oprah canvassed for stacey abrams in georgia and i was like, what? can you imagine having oprah come to your door? it would be like, what? is this your house? do you want my house? i'm sorry. i shouldn't have been in here. come on, children. this is oprah's house now. then at a republican rally, someone from trump's cabinet described florida's governor election as quote, cotton picking important. i heard that and i was like, ♪ what you know what happened today? edris elba was named sexiest man alive. i was like, why does that sound familiar? oh, yeah. here's why. blake shelter only was named sexiest man alive and i was like, what happened to idris elba? is he okay? [ cheers and applause ] i called it! and i'm calling next year's sexiest man alive. idris elba. and the year after that, idris elba. until he dies until at which point he will be sexiest ghost alive. in other news, there is a mandarin duck in central park and everybody is freaking out because it came from china and no one

of course that's where martin luther king was a pacifist.e would not take the violent than not is the difference between them and those who followed him who are impatient. you can say go back in the less controversial thing in a lloyd douglas. i'm sorry, william lloyd garrison. attack as an incrementalist. you had to do it step-by-step because change has to take place in the human heart. william lloyd garrison was all or nothing constitution with all of that. he actually inflamed the south even more by the extremism of his rhetoric. as soon as people are utopian, got it all now, they would eventually take two extremists and violent means and not as disastrous. >> the paradoxical freedom you mentioned is an idea that has been echoed by some in talking about liberalism itself, liberal democracy that essentially contains the seed to the self-destruction. as you know there have been an increasing number of intellectuals and perhaps particularly conservative intellectuals who have predictive liberalism perhaps by extension freedom has already fai

it was old supposed to be a martin luther king coming to memphis. e was going to leads a march and the goal was to get to washington, d.c. later that poor for the proposed people's campaign. segregationist and those were saying mission he didn't have the control of a memphis in is no way e will be successful in washington. he was taken aback by this and group.rift in his own in are members that want to go that hington and others think there should be here in memphis. of e is under a agreement pressure, scrutiny and stress during the weeks leading up to assassination. efore he arrived here segregation was still the law of the land. we still lived in the jim crow so there were white and colored only signs in all public accommodations. when he returned in 1968 the 1964 has hts act of been passed eliminating jim crow in america and voting rights is signed in 1965 giving african-americanses the right to register to vote without discrimination and we are engulfed with economic injustice the most important thing in the country was the war in one year the d

which isn't to take anything away from martin luther king, jr. who was incredible. but -- it's important to start recognizing some of the people a that's what's happening right now is is this current generation of scholar and journalist and historians are starting to shine a light into the crevice and into corners -- on to the secondary figures to flesh out the movement. there's still quite a lot of work to be done before we fully appreciate civil rights movement and its impact on american history, and that's what i think isis starting to happen now. i mean it has been happening for maybe about ten or 15 years with this, and it continues to happen and very important work, i think. >> we're also questioning it gives us opportunity to question some of those previous paradigm and pillars that we put iconic figures on and done history disjustice by making them only figures that two or three generations grew up knowing so mark -- i want to talk a little bit about this whole infiltrating and how -- how was he able to literally infiltratee and still do his job aser a photo

as martin luther king jr. called upon it in 1963 from a birmingham jail, so too did the greater birmingham ministries and bethel ame church in 2017. and it can never be forgotten that the state that produced the eugene -- sheriff jim clark and judge roy moore 's also created the civil rights warriors. who took down and defeated bull, jim and now roy in their crosshairs. [laughter] [applause] yeah. [applause] and now i'm going to take us to the night of the election because that section i am skipping tis what the civil rights warriors did. [laughter] roy moore nonetheless, had a lock on the republican stronghold in most of the northern sectors of the state. and the vote tallies began to roll in, his lead continued to grow. it looked almost insurmountable. as the votes continued to be counted, the elections seemed to mirror the classic mohammed ali -- with black voters apparently overwhelmed, outmatched and heading for sure defeat at the hands of a much more powerful opponent. but then, a blazing uppercut cart r

david: your mother brought you to the march in washington when martin luther king made his famous speech. robert: the impact of bringing me and my brother here was not only important for us, but to understand the community stood for something. the community was striving for something. it was important that we were part of it. that is part of the lifelong part of my soul, that i will move forward. david: as we have this , the african-american culture museum, this is near where martin luther king gave his speech. and your mother was living in denver. washington.in what did your grandparents do? robert: i grandfather was the postmaster general for three post offices here in the d.c. area. in the high school, he worked at the senate building. he served coffee and tea and took half and codes from various senators as they came in. was firstdent obama inaugurated, i brought my grandfather who was 93 at the time, and as we were sitting there, feeling the majesty of the moment for him. he pointed to the window above one of the flags and said i that windowking out when fdr was being inaugurated. t

it was an idea that coretta scott king had, that martin luther king jr. had because she believed we had to get to the point where we had economic power. we need to fight for the kind of things that would allow to us have full employment, better job training through our community colleges, through our apprenticeship program, through our state schools. we need to have that pipeline training so that young kids can learn stem subjects, science, technology, engineering, and math so they can have that piece of the american dream. that's not what we have been investing in. so many new yorkers, so many people around the country feel left behind. because they know the system's rigged. it's not rigged for them. so that's what our mission has to be. we have to it fight for these basic fairness things. for these basic kitchen table things, health care, education, jobs. it's really that simple. now all of you have been fighting since the day president trump got inaugurated and for decades before that. and after president trump was inaugurated, people stood up. it was

the great martin luther king that led a national movement for civil rights. and voting rights. so this organization plays a pivotal role right now, a national role in making sure that we respond to the assaults coming from the white house. and we know in a short period of time, less than two years, we may think this has been going on for six years, but in less than two years, the white house has attempted to erode the advancement that we have seen throughout decades. you seen it with the muslim ban. then he went to try to dismantle obamacare. and yes, i say obamacare, not the affordable care act, because they are both the same, right? sometimes you ask somebody in the street, which is better, the affordable care act or obamacare? they say i like obamacare. hey are both the same. 20, 30, 40 years from now, we will look back and say there were major health care provision programs implemented nationally. medicaid, medicare and obamacare. i think that is the potential of that program. he tried to dismantle that. he went after immigrants. dreamers. daca recipients. he separated moms

that's where martin luther king, jr. was a pacifist that's the difference between some of those who followed him who were impatient. you can say go back in a less controversial thing saying william and lloyd douglas. sorry william lloyd, wilbur was attacked an incrementalist you have to do it step by step because change has to take place in human heart you can't just change structures and william was all or nothing constitution impact with l and all of that. he actually inflamed the south even more by the extremism of his rhetoric. so as soon as people are utopian got it all now, they will eventually take to extremist and then violent means and that's disastrous. paradox of freedom that you mentioned has been ideal echoed by some talking about liberal itself and liberal democracy that essentially what allows freedom actually contains the seeds of its own descrux destruction as you know there are intellectuals and conservative intellectuals who have predicted that liberalism -- and perhaps by extension freedom has already

receives a report that says receive information from local fbi that charles and calvin met with martin luthering at 329 in his living room at the rivermont hotel for about 30 minutes. king advise them to keep it tell cool and they were not giving enough action and then martin asked to speak with the three invaders they did not go to him. were you this information come from? but then when did they have the time to do that? they didn't know ahead of time he would stay there because that happen very quickly. they had an informant is more likely but we don't know who. but it gives a fascinating look not only of what was taking place in the room with doctor king and also how that information is gathered. there is another from march the detective read it to us as an african-american police officer says while talking to people he learned the person seen wearing the small black hats were supposed to be deacons from los angeles and they are supposed to be karate experts with rifles. so of course, they have to run with whatever information they have and they gather as much as they can but it gives an i

martin luther king junior returns on memphis, march 28, 1968. , who we saw in the earlier part of the decade, fighting about the sco see memphis. arriving march the 18th, it seems it was a wonderful reception at the nearby masonic temple. there he tells abernathy and and that today is march the 28, 1968. there is a going on in the back of the march just one hour after it takes place. a 16-year-old youth by the name of larry page's is killed by an memphis police officer. dr. king is assassinated on thursday, april 4, 1968 at the lorraine motel. ,mmediately after his death many began to feel that they had received those minor increases after the life of the man was taken and what it did do was showcased to america that a nonviolent movement created a violent response. of the five political assassinations of the decade, dr. king's is the only one that resulted in violent uproar in its immediate aftermath. it's stained on america, this assassination, the pillar of , reallynonviolence here prompting the mayor and other local lawmakers to fix this. 12 days later the city of memphis reaches

selma, lord, selma, exclaimed bernice king, daughter of martin luther king jr.. it is no coincidence that selma where blood was shed in the struggle for voting rights for black people pushed doug jones ahead good. election results kept rolling in, the black voter turnout surprised almost everyone. the stealth of the get out the vote campaign which made it seem so last-minute, the apparently staying nonchalant when media pollsters, the significant barriers to the voting booth that alabama crafted brought about a kind of confidence, or resignation, that blacks would just not vote. the overall voter turnout rate had been the paltry 25% that merrill had predicted, perhaps more for whom merrill cast his ballot would have won but more than 40% of voters showed up, with urges well beyond account the's favorable to jones. the people in the black belt counties weighed down by everything alabama could throw at them were equally impressive. jones won an average of 73.4% of the vote in those counties with turnout that averaged 45.4%. about 5 percentage points tire -- higher

martin luther king iii, son of martin luther king jr. helped dedicate that memorial. >> i think it is extraordinary that this memorial is done so that we never ever forget that this kind of heinous really crime could occur in modern history. >> in total, 918 lives were lost when people's temple leader jim jones ordered members of the cult to drink a cyanide laced drink. >>> jackie spear today also revisited memories of jonestown. she was there, part she was wounded in the shootings that preceded the mass suicides, suffering five gunshot wounds. >> 22 hours on the ground with no medical attention. at one buoyant i was placpoint p of an aunt hill and i always say, you don't sweat the small stuff when you're dying. >> congressman ryan and four others were killed in the ambush. >>> well, just ahead, california's orange county has changed colors. coming up, the final house race that sealed the fate of the once conservative strong hold. >>> also what the cleveland browns are saying tonight about reports that the team is consid tremfya® is for

martin luther king, he said the ballot, legislation, your life. that's what martin luther king said. the ballot, legislation, your life. so let me get back to saying respect and thanks to you because when we go to sell this for more communities across the country, including our own, we can point with pride to say it is successful, it worked because the people most affected by it had a say in how it would proceed. and the young people who are affected by it, the future, can attest to that. so again, congratulations, alice griffith. we were here three years many of us for the ground breaking. here we are for the ribbon cutting. everyone, much happiness in your new homes. thank you for making this such a success. thank you all. [applause] >> wrap it up for leader pelosi. thank you so much, thank you so much. and it's true. we have that little election happening next week, and she said she had to be here. she had to be here. you can imagine her schedule. i want to next bring up the developer, richard barren of mccormick barren salazar. richard, brief

and if people like jimmy carter and bill clinton and martin luther king jr. iii and andrew young can agree, why don't the civil rights group support it. >> we welcome listeners on c-span radio. welcome to the conversation. karen is lake view, oregon, republican line, good morning. >> good morning. i'm so thankful to talk to john today. was a poll challenger in 2012, which means you go in and you check off name's people who are voting and call them into the republican party. there was a democrat representative there and she told me that she did not -- she didn't think of this it was right and if she was a voter she wouldn't want me taking her name down as a voter. and then later -- they sat me in the back of the room and i could barely hear the people calling the names of the people voting so shy check them off and call them -- and one time asked her if they could repeat a name and she told me i was interfering with the process. i never volunteered again to be a poll challenger because you can be arrest if you talk to voters while they're coming in or if you i

douglass, butrick martin luther king and many others. also been true for many advocates in many other countries oppose censorship, supporting free speech, even for speech that's deemed to be hateful and hated, precisely from the perspective of advancing human rights. having observed the actual operation of hate speech laws in their own countries, these -- and these include experts from the united nations and other international and regional human rights agencies, many of them have endorsed the ..s. approach for example, in 2015, the european commission against racism and intolerance concluded that counter speech and other measuresn-censorial are much more likely than censorship to prove defective and ultimately eradicating hateful speech and conduct. much more likely. president obama repeatedly told campus activists that they should support free speech specifically because it is essential to promote their social justice causes. in his words, being an activist involves hearing the other side and engaging in dialogue because that's how cha

martin luther king saying we all came here in different ships, but we're all in the same boat together. we are all americans. we all have each other's back. [applause] >> what a journey this has been. [applause] do you remember, dear, when i said that i was going to run for senate? and remember when i said everybody said, do you need to have your head examined? she did, too. tell you what. so many people to thank, but it starts right here. my dear wife. [applause] we made a big decision many, many years ago to come back to our hometown. and that wasn't typical back in 1978. 1978. and we did it for one reason. we wanted to raise a family. we wanted to have a chance to starting our own businesses, very simple plan, and by golly, it worked out. [applause] the kids are here on the stage with me, two of my grandkids. truly, dear, we have lived the american dream. really have. [applause] i see so many of you out there. i see perry, the other terry aside from the mayor. these guys, lots of terry's. i've made so many friends, and in the 15 months that i've been out doing this, imagine every ti

martin luther king jr. to fbi director j edgar hoover. contracts were left from serious academic and other studies. staff members and consultants began to conduct field surveys in 23 cities, including more than 1200 interviews, attitude and opinion surveys, and other serious studies of conditions and causes. the commission members broke into teams for site visits to the riot cities and personally observed close-up the human cost of wretched poverty and harsh racism. new york city mayor john lindsay and i were a two-person team for those site visits, as we had already automatically almost from the first, despite disparate backgrounds, made ourselves into a close working two-man team also to take the lead in pressing for our common goals for what the commission ought to do and say. mayor lindsay and i went to cincinnati, for example, for a closed, no press meeting with a well-educated and successful group of young male and female black militants in a meeting that it had taken our staff more than a week to set up. none of these young men and

of fred shuttlesworth, one of martin luther king's lieutenants. i worked with a lot of religious-based civil rights leaders. the greatestod threat to religious liberty was moral relativism, the demolishing of moral absolute. that was at the heart of what dr. king understood. when you have moral absolutes that guide you, that keeps everybody within the four squares of that morality. it is when you do away with those absolutes that you, in ,act, if you feel good, do it and a total disregard for other people's right to religious expression as a way of expressing their individual commitment to the furtherance of life. great tonow, it is hear that there are those who advocacy formy that sort of consistency in the civil rights movement of this it is fascinating, interesting to hear those arguments. but i will not be deterred by them. just as the family research council will not be deterred. we are a christian-based organization but we respect the police -- the rights of others to believe their particular religious beliefs. frc.org if the viewers want to

do vote all right every service and same thought yet event sounds good and we love to see use martin luther king and throw out those sound bites but see what was actually important to king was making sure that the little brown children as they were being bused from school from the lower economic sides of the of the community to the parts that were fully white so that those children could be interrelated educated at the same level of the other children unfortunately what we're seeing here is that just like back then in the sixty's when black children were being bused to other communities white women did something very interesting if you go back and you look at most of the pictures of the sixty's of the children being bus you see a lot of white women standing there angry faith yelling and spitting on children and holding up signs saying you can't go to school with my children we don't want you here and so what we learned back in the sixty's about white women is very similar to what we're seeing about white women right now is that all of them do not want what's best for children across the boa

as the civil rights movement gained momentum under the leadership of martin luther king jr the queen of jazz to seem more confident than resolute before. the. gospel creatures just let the spirits flow into them then that's a scene here. they have the spirit takes over it. really. is going to see close in from the american past. how sensual is this thing you know. there was silence. oh no. i don't think they saw a black woman standing there on stage. i think the music her music you just were in the presence of something very special you were in the presence you were you were in this other space because. i can stand up i can't stand. because of stuff that wasn't of me was yes i was. was. was. that. she didn't really understand the. the affection that people had towards her she didn't she didn't i mean she would come out after a concert and say that was a that was a good audience you know nothing about her singing but before hand should be a rock. very nervous she didn't want to talk to her one time we had a concert that was about sixty miles away when i was road managing her and not o

support and then roll up your sleeves commit for the long-term type of group but not much like martin luther king did with clc. but the massacre came along but the orangeburg massacre was suppressed. first it was misreported by the associatedd press this is just black students on a black college campus so who cares? can state came along and that completely captured everybody's imagination in the meantime. but orangeburg was worse than can state. and it still remains there so it is more and to see the dynamic. but they were the leaders bestsellers himself talks about the heroes in the shearers of the movement but that never would have happened if not for these other people doing all the work which doesn't take anything away from martin luther king that was incredible. so now this current journalist is shining a light into the crevices and the corners of the secondary figures to flesh out the movement and that was happening now and has been ten or 15 years and it continues to happen. . >>. >> have these iconic figures by also making them the only that two or three generations. so i want to tal

their plan to launch our campaign on the weekend of martin luther king, in january, and we did. after the president's inauguration, as you know, the women's march and much of that was about health care. women's reproductive health. the beat goes on. over the course of the next year and a half, working with the outside groups, they did a great deal of credit, i'm proud of our democratic unity in the congress of the united states and our inside maneuvering, that was essential to the clarity of our message and our differentiation from the republicans on that subject. working together, voting together we were able to make our case. 10,000 de groups, had events across the country. this is terms of policy of health care in our country. medicare, medicaid. the benefit of a pre-existing medical condition. being taken awafmente all of that. so much more. the issue about the cost of prescription drugs. all of those issues, coalitions, the cy groups across country, labor unions, veterans. the list goes on and on. so many people who were involved in that. leading up to the bat balance lofme

the miracle of the civil rights movement is not that martin luther king had a worthy cause or that he was a brilliant speaker or charismatic guy. he pulled together these disparate groups pulling in slightly different directions against great resistance and against uneven political help. it was about everyone in the movement and i'm not sure many readers come along that can do that. question in the front. how do we get the leaders of focusing on aircraft carriers into the emotional and psychological things right so that we don't lose all of our allies but also the emotional issues. >> first off, you are not looking for a leader, you are looking for a team. the next presidential election maybe shouldn't be about a person. it ought to be about a team. with the candidates came forward and as i have 100 people from across the u.s., accomplished people already sworn to spend at least two years in this administration bringing forth the right answers into doing the right thing and you didn't charge the person because nobody smart enough has all the answers. but someone is good enough to pull

martin luther king said the ballot. the ballot, the ballot, the ballot. legislation, legislation legislation. your life, your life your life. colin to people's attention that voting was important because what happens legislatively can impact their lives. we intend for people to see the impact of legislation on their lives. that is our strength. that is our strength. wither person who marched dr. king, he said decisions made table can beating overturned by what happens in legislative pumps. -- homes. people have to see more clearly the connection to voting policy and their lives so that they will vote. they will have an impact on the public policy. i feel very confident about it. i think democrats come in to this majority with a responsibility not to democrats. it is not about democrats or republicans. it is about the united states of america. it is about the country ronald reagan talked about. we have a great obligation to honor the vision of our founders and what they were courageous in fighting for. in so brilliant presenting to us. we have a responsibi

king day in january and the weekend of martin luther king day injanuary and we did.oric happened in our country, the women's march, and much of that was about health care, the beat goes on. over the course of that next year and a half, working with the outside groups, and they deserve a great deal of credit and i am proud of our democratic unity in the congress of the united states and are inside manoeuvring that unity was essential to the clarity of our message and differentiation from the republicans on that subject. working together, voting together, we were able to make our case. the outside groups has 10,000 events across the country, speaking about the risks that was involved in republican policy, in terms of health care in our country. the results on medicare and the results on the benefit of the pre—existing medical condition being taken away, all of that, and

reformers, martin luther and the reformation and then his namesake, martin luther king jr. we came up with euros and the chinese admiral and we had a standalone. and the standalone was general robert e lee. we put robert e lee because of all the figures in my life and myyouth , he was the iconic leader. i went to washington high school, west point like robert e lee had. i live somebody from his boyhood home though for me, he was the exemplar of military and battlefield quality and leadership. and it's complex to write about robert e lee and i have a complex relationship with his memory. but i didn't think i could honestly write a book about leaders without addressing the one that i had spent the most time in my life thinking about. >> you said you reevaluated robert e lee and there's a portrait of your life gave that you've thrown out, why is that? why have you changed your mind about that?>> my wife is in the back and when i was the 2nd lieutenant, he spent $25 and bought me the same thing. you get a painting for $25, frame and it was just a prince. a more famous painting

martin luther king jr. arrives in montgomery, alabama, to join the assembly. church is soon surrounded by an angry mob of 3,000 southern whites. >> there's a risk they're going to burn the church down. and king calls the attorney general in washington and says, i need your help. >> hundreds of lives are in danger. bobby realizes he has to act. >> on the issue of civil rights, there's no middle ground. you're either for civil rights or you're against civil rights. >> the attorney general couldn't very well let all these people die. that would have been an immense tragedy. bobby knew that he had to protect them. >> it was really a question of doing the right thing, politics be damned. >> bobby sends in a federal force to protect the lives of martin luther king jr. and the freedom riders. >> and this was bobby's real baptism in terms of what the civil rights movement meant to him. >> bobby kennedy has to be educated. he doesn't come to the civil rights struggle with anything much different than any other wealthy white man of privilege would. >> but after the free

martin luther king, jr.>> when he arrived in indianapolis the authorities there asked him not to go. the crowd hadn't yet learned that king had been killed, but there were riots erupting elsewhere in response to it. and they were worried about his safety, and he insisted on going. >> the police tell him you can't go there. the mayor of the city says you can't go there, and he said, you know, i can go in there with my whole family and sleep in a tent on the street and be perfectly safe. and if the chief of police can't do that, that's his problem. >> he drives into the black ghetto in indianapolis. he jumps up on the back of a flatbed pickup truck. >> i have some very sad news for all of you, and i think sad news for all of our fellow citizens and people who love peace all over the world. and that is that martin luther king was shot and was killed tonight. >> there's this anguish, the reaction in the crowd. and he starts the speech. >> for those of you who are black and are tempted to be filled with hatred an

just a few days later, martin luther king's assassinated, and many of the gains that had been sought and won -- because he flipped his numbers overnight from about 40% support to 60. but four days later the country broke apart, and that changed the trajectory also as well as many other tragedies that happened that year, and i outline those in the book. at that point elle say i'll stop here, and i'll take some questions. thank you for your attention. [applause] yes, sir. >> mr. longley, thank you so much for being here today. i'm a college student here in the washington, d.c. area. when i was in middle school in 2006, i did research at the lbj library, and that truly was a formative experience. >> i like to hear that as the director. [laughter] >> i had the opportunity to visit the library again in august 2017, 2017. and what my question is, is there are several -- there are numerous accounts of president johnson's final meeting with robert kennedy on april 3, 1968. i was wondering do you know, do you know when and where president johnson's final meeting with dr. king was? >> that's a

we made a plan that would be launched on martin luther king weekend. just continuing that. over the course of the next the congressional democrats, house and senate again, 100% and the house against trumpcare. 100% against the tax scam that did serious damage to the affordable care act and they are using to eliminate the pre-existing condition. it is representing -- factpresenting when in they had the case against republican attorney general's and administration is joining them and that lawsuit. health for the american people is on the ballot. that means their financial help. do not take it from me, look at what mitch mcconnell said. that medicare was on the chopping block. from the trump assault on the affordable care, the refusal -- to insist the secretary negotiate for lower prescription drugs, their assault on medicare and medicaid. their assault on the pre-existing conditions, the lists goes on. it is not just an legislation but in the tax scam which did serious damage to the individual. that is what is on the ballot. i am happy to salute congressional democrats, house