rosa parks made martin luther king possible. (applause) >> and i believe that those four students in greensboro also made the accomplishments that we he attribute to martin luther king as a symbol of the movement. martin luther king understood that many of the things that we attribute to him would not have been possible without the grassroots of the struggle. and that brings me back to the book that i've written about the last 50 years. when i was a teenager, a 19 year old, i went to the march on washington. and right before going, i met some of these young activists who are associated with the student nonviolent coordinating committee. i must say that that affected the way in which i viewed the march. like everyone else, i wanted to see what martin luther king's concluding speech would be. but i was also interested in the speech of john lewis who was the chair of the student nonviolent coordinating committee. just days before the march, i had met one of the snick activists at a conference. his name was stokely car michael. and f

it launches the career of martin luther king as a civil-rights leader. 126-year old is kind of brought to the nation as of this will begin, began, historic next 13 years we have with king. . >> the supreme court decision was covered in "the new york times." i want to turn to martin luther king. somes december 20, 1956, 380 days after december 1 1955, when rosa parks sat down on the bus refusing to get up, which was nine months after claudette colvin sat down on the bus refusing to get up and getting arrested. it was december 20, 1956 that dr. king announces the montgomery bus boycott is over after more than 380 days. >> the executive board of the montgomery improvement 11thiation recommends the month old protest against the city buses will be called off and that the negro citizens of montgomery, alabama will return to the buses on and on segregated basis. [applause] recommended that this return to the buses will not take place until the mandate from the united states supreme court is turned over to the federal district court. this morning, the long-awaite

it changed the name to the martin luther king school. i lifted out. and so i asked the crowd, should you do something about a? and revive his name. i had this idea that maybe you should rename that school the victor berger school again so that today's children will know who was an celebrate what a remarkable person he is. every time someone goes to one of those great parks on the waterfront it was victor berger that helped. eliminating martin luther king's name and replacing it with victor berger. i said, what if you added his name in the men after both of them. then i realized that they did that it would be called the parking school -- called the burger king school. that was not a good idea, but i start something because i have been getting some e-mails from people in milwaukee recently saying that there is an attempt to find something they can name after victor berger again. i'm sort of proud that i have some role to play in reviving his memory. lots of other people in my book to have schools in after them, boulevards in after them. obviously more l

he said they changed the name to the martin luther king school. and i looked it up later and i find out sometime in the 1970s they changed the name to martin luther king and didn't explain why. and so i asked the crowd, you know, shouldn't do something about victor berger? to revive his name. and i had this idea that maybe you should rename that school to victor berger school again, so that today's children will know who he was and celebrate the remarkable person he is, and so every time someone goes to one of those great parks on the waterfront of milwaukee they will do it was victor berger et al. to build those part. of people thought it wasn't a good idea to eliminate martin luther king's name, and replace it with victor berger's name. i said what if you added a victor berger's name to the school and she named it after both of them? then i realized that if they did that it would be called the burger king school. [laughter] and so that wasn't a very good idea. but i think i sparked something because i've been getting some e-mails from people in m

but, really, martin luther king was a leader.that is one of the great things about lyndon johnson's speech. everybody remembers that he duringwe shall overcome" the selma march. he said there are times when destiny and freedom come together in a single moment, and that was as it was in appomattox during the civil war, and so it was in selma. johnson is welcoming a black-led movement, from the revolution to the civil war, but to the vanguard of it, a non-violent movement, saying this is showing us what our principles mean, and that is a very, very profound and radical memory, and i think people want to forget that as much as they want to sanitize martin luther king. tavis: yes. tell us about the 18. you have whittled them down. you picked 18 historical moments that basically turned this country during the civil rights era. i know we cannot go through all of them. my question i guess is how you settled on these 18 monumental moments in our history. >> well, first of all, i have to say that since i had to eliminate 95% of what i wro

martin luther king jr.'s memorial and with president obama giving the keynote address we thought it would be a perfect time to look at legacy of dr. king alongside the man who walks in his wake, the nation's first black president. we discuss dr. king to occupy wall street. we were proud of that segment then and still are today. take a lock. >> back with msnbc contributor and columnist, one of my favorite magazine "the nation," melissa harris-perry and bob herbert, author of "waking up from the american dream" and our special guest whose play "mountaintop" opened last week. want to play this clip from dr. king on "meet the press." it's awesome we have the nbc library and got to watch every appearance of dr. king on "meet is press." this is dr. king talking about the efficacy of non-violent direct actions and demonstrations. >> recent polls suggest that in terms of national reaction, demonstrations are now counterproductive. by continuing them, don't you run the risk of doing more harm than good? >> again, i c

martin luther king. oh, for a minute, please. right? i mean, you were an inspiration to him, weren't you? >> well, i was a messenger. let's just put it that way. i mean, he thought i was an angel that had come to transmit a message from robert kennedy to him on my way back to mississippi about the need to bring the poor to washington, because he was... >> hinojosa: did he actually... he actually believed that you were something of an angel? >> well, he was... well, in the last eight years of his life, which is when i knew him-- i met him when i was a senior at spelman college-- and he was very inspiring in chapel, and i remember it as if it were yesterday when he told us to keep moving and that's something i've internalized. there were two messages: if you can't fly, you drive, if you can't drive, you run, if you can't run, you walk, if you can't walk, you crawl, but you keep moving. and the second message, which i had written in my diary after hearing him, was that you don't have to see the whole stairway. take the first step in faith

that was very moving having your inauguration fall on martin luther king day. >> yes, that was, that was etty special. [ laughter ] so four more years. [ clock chimes ] ♪ >> barack! barack obama! [ laughter ] >> it is i, the reverend martin luther king junior and i have come to visit with you on the night of this historic inauguration. >> this is incredible. there is so much i want to discuss with you. >> and i with you, barack. >> so tell me, dr. king, have i lived up to the promise of your legacy? are we on the right track as a nation? >> oh, we'll get to all of that, barack. we'll get to that. but, first things first, did you -- did you see that girl, beyonce? [ laughter ] >> excuse me? >> that girl, beyonce. did you see her up there? 'cause i was like "what?" [ laughter ] >> well, beyonce. well yes, she is a very beautiful woman. >> beautiful? raquel welch was beautiful. beyonce is like "damn." [ laughter ] i had to keep pinching myself. i thought i was having another one of my famous dreams. [ laughter ] >> dr. king, come on. i mean, she was there to sing our national anthem. >>

when martin luther king became martin luther king and is now a monument on the mall, which i think he deserves, that's not the issue, but suddenly that individual or mandela or the dalai lama who is in a category of his own since he is sort of god, what normal human being, what ordinary person can ever believe that they could accomplish leadership like that? and i think that does a huge disservice to both the possibility of change and to ordinary people recognizing that we each have power and we can with all our flaw well, can contribute to change. i'm flawed. >> early in the book, you tell us about brother steve. where is steve today? >> my brother has always lived with my parents, except for two times he was institutionalized, one i write about in the book because he was so violent we were concerned he would kill a family member or himself. but he's still living with my mom in environment. still. >> did you ask him before you wrote this about him? >> no. >> why not? >> i didn't ask anybody's permission. this is my perception of my life. i didn't ask my mom, she was very nervous and

now that he is safely dead, martin luther king jr. safely dead. is it true? is he safely dead today? is his dream safely dead? now, i know that many people in this room would say, no, no, no. dr. king's dream, his spirit is still so much alive amongst all of us. it's thriving right here in this room. and what better evidence could there be of this fact than that we, as a nation, all pause to pay tribute to his dream just yesterday, a national federal holiday. think about that. a national federal holiday for martin luther king jr., the man who was once deemed a threat to national security by the fbi, a radical troublemaker. is it not obvious that we as a nation have finally caught up with king? we may not be living his dream, but don't we at least share his dream? what percent evidence of this -- what better evidence of this could there be than we just reelected our nation's first black president? something that was unimaginable in 1963 or 1968. what better evidence could there be than that beautiful multiracial, multiethnic gathering on the mall in washington,

martin luther king and his dream and some of the issues that we were dealing with over 40 years ago areof the same issues that we are dealing with today. and i'm so honored to have dr. claiborne carson here today to talk to us about some of those issues. he is unmatched in terms of his expertise about dr. king and has made sure that his dream and his words and the education that we have from dr. king stays alive for generations to come. so, this is truly an amazing event today. dr. king in 1967 asked, where do we go from here? and today we're still asking that same question. where do we go from here? well, we still have people suffering in our community, people in the african-american community. where do we go from here when we have lost numbers of african americans in san francisco? where do we go from here? well, i'll tell you where we go from here. (applause) >> we change policy of the city. we change policy, and we start to be progressive, truly progressive about the policies we push to make african americans feel welcomed in this city. so, where do we go from here? we start to make

i worked up in the martin luther king jr. so i know. i have a ton of families up in hunter's point and they're probably of the issue and do we hold off and i respect the position and not have services or bring in the services and deal with everything else as we go? and here's what i mean. you guys have the tests, have run and cleared. people have approved it and there are no other professionals that are coming up against this in terms of the science portion of it. let's build this thing and get the people -- get the children the help they need because either way the thing is there or not you will still have a problem. i would at least have a solution there, some kind of solution that will bring some relief to the community then not to have it and still have the same problem. that's my position so let's build this and let's deal with the water plant. >> let me call a few more names . (calling speakers). any of those names that are here to speak? go ahead and approach the podium. >> my name is [inaudible]. i am an 18 year old resident of

. >> martin luther king. >> every martin luther king holiday, i try to read one of his speeches or something, and i think, you know, an unelected person who has moved this country and has amazing oratorical skills, so i would say that's a person who i certainly would have liked to -- i heard speak in person as the book makes clear, and i would certainly like to have met more personally. >> if you were white house chief of staff, what is the single most important policy you would, if you had complete power, encourage a president to bring in to improve america? >> well, at the moment, i'm in health care, i worked on the president's affordable care act and i think reducing or controlling health care costs is probably the most important thing we can do for the long term future of the country. the second thing i think that is probably the most important thing which is what the president did announce in his state of the union is we really have to focus on our children and our posterity. we are a country which always says that kids are our most important resource and i think we have to

there's a report of an accident on oakland city streets on 27th street, martin luther king way. that is right outside the hospital there, so we'll see what's going on, but that's just the first report on their way to check it out. let's take a look at the commute on 80 westbound, it looks good as you drive through. no major problems getting out to the macarthur maze into the toll plaza. it's light. no problems starting the morning. traffic continues to look good. this morning's drive in san jose off to a good start, northbound 280 traffic is moving nicely. now here is rosemary. >> good morning. be prepared for perhaps a slow drive through santa rosa, sonoma, petaluma, visibility is down to 1/4 of a mile this morning. seeing it along the coastline as well. what do you notice? no 30s this morning! 41 in napa, 5 to 7 degrees warmer than yesterday. santa rosa 41, 50 in oakland. 50 half moon bay. half moon bay overcast skies, fog, visibility about 5 miles outside your door. if i back this up, i'm going to show you the ridge of high pressure that continues over the state moving closer

. >> martin luther king. >> every martin luther king holiday, i try to read one of his speechesd i think, you know, an unelected person who has moved this country and has amazing oratorical skills, so i would say that's a person who i certainly would have liked to -- i heard speak in person as the book makes clear, and i would certainly like to have met more personally. >> if you were white house chief of staff, what is the single most important policy you would, if you had complete power, encourage a president to bring in to improve america? >> well, at the moment, i'm in health care, i worked on the president's affordable care act and i think reducing or controlling health care costs is probably the most important thing we can do for the long term future of the country. the second thing i think that is probably the most important thing which is what the president did announce in his state of the union is we really have to focus on our children and our posterity. we are a country which always says that kids are our most important resource and i think we have to put the money wh

finally there is a ctc investigation of the teacher in martin luther king over the criminal abuse in the school which the superintendent says does not exist. this will be exposed and these people will be held accountable including the superintendent. >> miss solomen? >> thank you. >> susan solomen, again. i'm up here this time to invite everybody to uesf spring conference which is this saturday, march second from 8:30 to 12:30, i know that it overlaps with the school side summit and there are only so many saturdays in the spring but hopefully everybody can come. our emphasize of what we are really focusing on this time is essential tools and strategies to insure your students get the education that they deserve, so the focus is on special education and within that, ininclusive practices. we really want to look at how we insure or assure that educators and parents in the district are working together to make sure that the students get what they need. so the details are, we start at 8:30 with breakfast and at 9:00 we have guest speakers and a panel at 9:30 and a lot of workshops and we

of mixing and civil rights, i mentioned the trip to africa and 67, and that's where we met martin luther king, dr. martin luther king who was 28-years-old at the time and nixon they've really got along. particularly trying to see nixon to lobby for the administration you wanted to get to eisenhower. they said sure, come and see me. they met in washington at the office and they stayed in touch regularly. and king really felt they had a correspondence he was really admired pity and he had a good sensitivity about this. the one black man and eisenhower's white house salmon named fred mauro and he wrote a book called a black book in the white house and he felt completely sort of alienated. people he felt prejudice but he felt -- he said fred i don't think you should always be talking about job issues that affect black people. i think that you should -- he really appreciated this sensitivity. was baffling. he baffles me in so many ways. but nixon is always pretty good. i can't forgive or ex plan from some of the leader takes but the job is terrible. it's horrible. and they have so much pressure on

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martin luther king, a six weeks before he was killed abernathy called me and said i am calling you because dr. king would like to know if you be willing to participate to have a representative to pull together 100 or more organizational groups around the country, not only would we want you to help us and work with everybody, we also want to keep the committee together in dr. king wants us to work together for the first order of business to hammer out a plan for economic liberation. i said yes, as chairman we definitely will be there and do whatever he wants. i had respect for dr. king. of they said they put him as the boot liquor i said what the hell? he said chairman i know you said you cannot put to dr. king in our newspaper and call him a bootlegger and he said chairman i said non-violence is peaceful protest. they have a constitutional right for peaceful protest. that some black, white, anybody lot resupply is there right to have that. if we have a peaceful rally we have a peaceful rally but we will defend ourselves with our lives. chairman, i made a mistake. i am just saying we will c

martin luther king and many other american heroes.spire all who walked these halls, especially young people, with her quiet strength, her pride, her dignity, her courage. i told you she was recognized by congress and friends of congress. now i would like to share with you comments from one of my invited to get. the race all great, willie mays -- baseball great, willie mays. these are the same injustices that rosa parks did when he was growing up. he could not be here today but sent a letter and said i could share these words about her. he said more than this, and i gave the complete letter to roses. -- rosa's nice -- niece. he said, change does not happen fast. one person's actions inspiring another. she simply did what was natural. she was tired so she sat down. that simple act sparked outrage. that outrage spread, and one person's actions inspired change. we will try to remember to encourage change when served justice. today, we will remember with admiration the simple act of a brave woman. we will remember, we will honor, rosa park

. >> and martin luther king was a big supporter until they had a bad moment and the eisenhower administration with nixon working in the senate was considered a landmark bill at the time and then there was a liberal wing and a conservative wing so to speak of the conservative wing people like robert taft she had a social conscience and so on that route lawyers as an invisible u.s. government had taken over the country they didn't speak for the party can and in fact eisenhower was reluctant to take anybody on directly he thought he really did want to get mccarthy exiled from the party that he put xm up to date. >> one of the challenges for somebody writing about richard nixon if you would share this view is that we have an ocean of information about him as president largely because he decided to leave it but he didn't expect the public to have access to it and we don't have as much about him. how easy or hard was it for you to get to mix and when you wrote about him? >> i get a lot of credit to timothy. a lot of stuff was open, and you can go down there and you can go through the archives and f

often setting them on an of the program have come from everett [inaudible] james [inaudible] martin luther king junior, [inaudible] clear lily, hoovers james lake, benjamin franklin middle school. each school receives copies of the odd vocation forms [inaudible] and were has expressed his commitment to expanding december /treubgt programs in to seven fields to better prepare students for [inaudible] focused its agenda on a strategic approach to execute this bill. we commend the american association of the university women's expresses its deepest appreciation for the support the branch has shown to advance the [inaudible] by middle schoolgirls. >> thank you. i don't have any public speakers signed up for this item. i was thinking we could have comments from the board vote and then if you wanted your guests to say a few words after we present the certificates. any comments welcome from the board members. any comments from board members? >> just if i may say i'm a proud member of aauw and have been aware of this program for a number of years and wanna commend the association but the local chapter

. >> > y un hombre intento suicidarse y lo encontraron en la escuela martín luther king después de encontrar sustituto en esté año 2009 y febrero de esté año uy esté no es el único caso que encuentran y están en un autobus escolar y el individuo acompañaba a la madre del estudiantes mientras eran trasnportados y el hombre no tuvo ningún contacto indevido con los niños según las autoridades. >> > nosotros estamos seguros que los estudiantes no sufrieron ningún daño. >>> y a raiz del incidentes estarán en viajes escolare.s >>>es y hoy estaba bajo la influencia del alcohol y no se declaro ni culpable y no culpable y arrestan a un adolescente por amenazar por una bomb ay el plantel recibió una llamada de teléfono y seugn la policía el tiene eun cómplice y aún no saben quien es y la semana pasada matiu de 20 años sufrio una lesion en la cabeza en el parqe y las autoridades de san francisco están buscando a una mujer que ataco a otra con un destornillador y dolores huerta vino al área de ela bahia para el local y está con defensa para los trabajadores . >>> dolores huerta sigue la lucha y hablamos

martin luther king was killed. six weeks before dr. martin luther king was killed, doctor reverend called me, chairman seale, i said yes or and he said dr. king, i'm calling a method dr. king, would like to know if you would be willing to participate, you, the black panther party, as representatives will pull together 100 or more organizational groups around the country he said to me. and not only will we want you to help us and work with everybody for the poor people's march upcoming, we also want to keep the committee together. dr. king wants us to work together so we could start trying to hammer out, first order of business will be outlined practical economical, plan for economic liberation. i said yes. chairman of the party, we will help you and your organization. whatever he wants. i have great respect for dr. king. he put dr. king -- black panther party newspaper, man, i went over, what the hell you do this for? i said no, you cannot put dr. king out of black panther party newspaper in column a bootleg. man goes to jail. mr. chair

as martin luther king, malcolm x, harry a tuchman, frederick douglass and so many others have taught us, we must avoid the silence in the face of evil and injustice. a silence that would become a betrayer. a betrayer of the best of our ethical social justice and the betrayer of the struggling people of the world. including our own. what is our position on the congo? what about the invasion of africa and libya? what about haiti and its oppression? we must speak truth to power if we really believe in our tradition. if we have a commitment to our own faith. we have to speak truth to power into the people. we must become not supporters of injustice, but those who challenge it and struggle to end it. indeed, we must not become a convenient moral mass that establishes order. the corporate and political elite used to continue to plunder the world, simply because we have a black president. from the earliest time in the sacred teachings and ancient egypt, we are taught that we are morally obligated to bear witness to truth and to set the scales of justice in their proper place among those who