and philiped fdr randolph and the work they did together.eek marks the 50th anniversary of the big march in .etroit area a lot of folks do not know this. the famous i have a dream speech we will celebrate 50 this coming august. before keying it got washington to deliver this, he went to detroit right about now, and that is when he tried out the team. he used detroit as a testing ground for a speech he would later give in august he most is famous for. he did that first in detroit. grace lee boggs was in the audience. she was one of the organizers when dr. king came to detroit for this grand celebration. i will let you tell the story. you are 98. i am only 48. tell me what happened in detroit. birmingham had happened. the movement for human rights had decided to boycott downtown in birmingham during the easter season. after they jailed martin luther the children began marching. people saw it all over the , and they organized a rally to protest. only a few people showed up. clay got up there and said, we should have a march that will scare the

philip randolph organize them and was brought by eleanor roosevelt to meet with fdr when he was presidented the condition of black people, working people in the country and fdr sat there quietly listening and said i don't disagree with anything you said, but you will have to make me do it. make me do it, he said to a. the brand up. that day, august 1963, he would help to make all this happen. heurge you to call us, as introduced dr. martin luther king, who gave the address. we urge you to call and then we move on to memphis where dr. king went to organize. this is five years later. he organized the poor people's campaign. he went to dentist to march with sanitation -- he went to memphis to march with sanitation workers. it was very dangerous. the violence was intense. he went back. ,t was on that fateful day april 4, 1968, that dr. king was gunned down and about the need of the lorraine motel as he was there to organize a local union with sanitation workers. we urge you to call right now. and then you see what happens next. when i first got the dvd and we were going through to decide what