lowrie would help co-found the sclc with dr. king. reverend would later become the longest reigning president of sclc, serving 20 years. and this huntsville, alabama native would go on to give the invocation at the inauguration of america's first black president. >> do you ever have a moment where you still just break down and cry in losing your general, essentially, certainly your good friend? but do you all ever have those moments? and when do those happen? >> i'm too tough. too strong. too physical. >> is that right? >> too male to cry in front of you. i think we've all cried from time to time. and it's what we're crying about, we have to make sure that it's right. >> one of the most visible on our panel of the friends of king is reverend jesse jackson, who joined king's movement when he was just 22 years old. dr. king would name jackson heaved sclc's famed operation bread basket, set up to pressure white corporations to hire minorities and buy from black businesses. jackson, who later left the sclc and formed his own civil rights

and the sclc to come to birmingham, alabama, for a massive campaign against segregation. in response to the campaign, bull conner released police dogs on activists and had activists sprayed with intense fire hose, streaming of water. so powerful that they were knocked down to their feet. these egregious actions were captured on national television and published in newspapers across this country. the national attention led to the federal intervention and the signing of a civil rights bill of 1964 and then later the voting rights act of 1965 by president lyndon baines johnson. rev rnd -- reverend shuttlesworth was the heart of this monumental victory as he poured his soul into the civil rights movement. although shuttlesworth remained active in the movement in alabama and regularly visited, he did move in 1961 to cincinnati, ohio, where he was a pastor for most of the next 47 years. in cincinnati shuttlesworth became the pastor of the greater new life -- new light baptist church in 1966 and worked to continue his work to fight against racism and for the alleviation of a pro

. >> i spent four years with sclc and a year and a half i drove with the family. >> reporter: how aboutwill answer questions. >> i will show you where dr. king used to hang in this town. >> reporter: as dr. king's friend and personal driver, he's in familiar territory -- especially on the street named for the man he knew so well. >> we're on martin luther king right now. here is the southern cross bedding here, that's where martin luther king at 14 years old for two week got -- daddy king got him a job. he threw mattresses. >> reporter: was he intimidating? >> not at all. i wouldn't have to worry, reynolds, but driving. he was a terrible driver. >> reporter: he had a great send of humor? >> great sense of humor. he would be cracking jokes and would have a great sense of amusement about him. you would never know that he just came back from -- he one time said i'm not going to be 40 -- he didn't, he was assassinated when he was 39. he never had fear in life. >> reporter: from behind the steering wheel, howe got an up-close view of the civil rights movement, seeing history unfold at every

days ago -- fred shuttlesworth, someone who you knew very well, was right there with you to find the sclce streets with you. he died. what is the significance of the elder statesmen, the civil rights-era guys like you, getting older? what's the significance of us losing those guys over time? those men and women over time? >> well, time moves on. and as much as we might regret it, we're all going to answer the bell when it tolls for us. but god has rams in the bush. and i think you'll see from time to time, leaders will come forward, and the leadership is proliferating. we no longer -- back in the early days, we depended on civil right people for almost all the leadership. now, leadership comes from many quarters. we have leaders in business. we have leaders in science. we have leaders in education. and we are experiencing and -- a widespread litration of leadership that i think is healthy for the country. >>> we're at 22 minutes past the hour now. and they couldn't get it passed on the federal level, but california has now passed its own dream act. now student who are in the country illeg