along with tuskegee attorney fred gray, she is the last remaining leader from the montgomery busboy cot. on several occasions i have been privileged to listen to mrs. abernathy, recall her experiences in the civil rights struggle. we are in for a treat. our program is simple. first, we will hear introductory comments by a scholar. mrs. abernathy will offer remembrance s about the movement. finally we'll open the floor to questions so we can have an engaging conversation with mrs. abernathy. let me identify miss brenda ten dal of university of north carolina charlotte who will introduce mrs. abernathy. native of charlotte earning her bachelor there and working on docket hit at emory university on dissertation that explores lives of widows. please join me in welcoming mrs. tindle. [ applause ] [ applause ] >> greetings. it is indeed a privilege to provide opening remarks for this special session entitled remembering the career in civil rights dialogue with mrs. mrs. juanita jones abernathy. i'd like to thank gregory nixon, john ensclo and harris for inviting know take part in this ram. fi

he brought the fight to alabama, whether it's the montgomery busboy situation or the fight in birminghams is king's movie and king's show. i think the controversy is it makes lbj seem like the one that's putting the fbi in the early '60s on king when it was bobby kennedy, the attorney general who did it. we're in a tough field in history looking for factual accuracy. seems to me with so much at stake in a wonderful film like this that some of that could have been corrected. you could go online and read 100 historical accuracies in the film. it's a hollywood movie. nobody's expecting it to be accurate. but it's in my view blaming lyndon johnson for having a kind of bigoted attitude that he never had. and it certainly didn't have when he supported the civil rights act of 1957 and he deserves a lot of credit johnson, for selma. and andrew young has said exactly what i'm saying. >> gill robertson, douglas brinkley, thank you both. wolf blitzer is here with a preview of "the situation room." today you're examining north korea's military threats and you have the state department's spokeswoman

. >> right, and the montgomery busboy, at 26 and contributed qualities i deeply admire as a man and thosethe things that really drew me to him. >> rose: the interesting thing about this film is that you get a chance to see that there were these -- all the factors that are at play and it is a day by day endeavor and it is about strategy. yes. >> it is about trying to understand what the forces are against you, it is about enter within the black, interblack battles between young and not so young, it is different people who thought they had a better way. >> and king heard all of those conversations. >> yes. that's what i think is revelation-ory. >> when people see the film, when you think of nonviolence they think they were soft, as compared to a malcolm x but what people don't necessarily realize. >> rose: he was more fiery. >> right but actually when you dig into this it was incredibly subversive, the idea of using love to shame racists into taking a look at themselves the idea of going into a place like selma and making sure the cameras roll while you provoke these people to do what they