mrs. abernathy. it's such an honor that you would come and do a show and national network forum tonight. side by side with the king from day one. dr. abernathy nominated him the president of the montgomery movement and your house and church was actually bombed the night they formed the southern christian leadership conference. >> that's right. >> you lived under daily threat. i don't think people understand the price that was paid to get us to where we are today. give us a sense of how it was to be the co-pilot of this great movement. >> well, one of the things is that we had death threats every day for five consecutive years. there was a woman hired by the white citizens council, or the koo klux klan. we thought it was the white citizens council. she came on duty at 7:00 a.m. in the morning and worked until 7:00 p.m. in the evening and a man came on duty at 7:00. they called us everything with death threats, we're going to blow your so-and-so head off and your little children and it was constant. rosa parks and my house. we got the calls. and when she finished cursing and calling us all

abernathy and dr. king and mrs. king and your families had to personally go through to make it possible for us to walk through these doors. >> thank you, reverend sharpton. .- for the opportunity first of all, we have to understand where we have come from in order to understand where we are. [applause] there are so many of our young and even-- adults older people who have no idea of how we arrived where we are today. our young people cannot be told because the parents don't know. [applause] it is notrents -- taught in our schools. the parents are not getting it, reverend, i'm, sorry, i have to say this -- [applause] but the church, the black church has always been the backbone of the black immunity. -- community. if it does not speak out against the ills in our society, where will it come from yucca -- from? we had the church in the movement. had it not and for the ministers of the black church, there would not have been a civil rights movement. [applause] , large extent, that is one of the basic missing elements in