stokely carmichael is one of my heroes as well as malcolm x. i was more in agreement with malcolm x, the later malcolm x and stokely carmichael then i was with dr. king despite knowing him and later i had gotten older and i appreciated dr. king's tactics. he was the one with the monument on the mall but during that time you had misgivings about "time" magazine naming dr. king man of the year. >> guest: no, no, not at all. i was from a distance very proud of martin luther king but i think i absorb a lot of resentment of him. the people in snake and i felt this way. martin luther king is following us. we are not following him. he is the one -- we are out there trying to break it down in terms for me it was moving to los angeles in getting involved in the movement there and getting involved with a group called non-violent action committee which is a sncc group at the local level in getting involved with issues like employment issues and urban issues. this was the year before king comes to chicago so we are already from our perspective, king is fol

stokely carmichael is one of my heroes as well as malcolm x. i was more in agreement with malcolm x, the later malcolm x and stokely carmichael then i was with dr. king despite knowing him and later i had gotten older and i appreciated dr. king's tactics. he was the one with the monument on the mall but during that time you had misgivings about "time" magazine naming dr. king man of the year. >> guest: no, no, not at all. i was from a distance very proud of martin luther king but i think i absorb a lot of resentment of him. the people in snake and i felt this way. martin luther king is following us. we are not following him. he is the one -- we are out there trying to break it down in terms for me it was moving to los angeles in getting involved in the movement there and getting involved with a group called non-violent action committee which is a sncc group at the local level in getting involved with issues like employment issues and urban issues. this was the year before king comes to chicago so we are already from our perspective, king is fol

there's a beautiful picture of stokely carmichael and rosa parks, and i think we're not used to seeing that. >> reporter: we might have gotten used to seeing such unexpected aspects of rosa parks except for one curious fact -- parks' own records of her life are simply not accessible to public view. that's because of a dispute between family members and executors she appointed in her later years, and a probate court ordered that all her possessions should be sold, with the money that's raised being split between the contending parties. so the entire rosa parks collection has passed into the care of a new york auction house, one that's well-known for celebrity auctions. >> the rosa parks archive contains her library, unpublished photographs, correspondence with everyone from family to great leaders. >> reporter: it's all that correspondence, of course, plus her private writing over time in journals and notes that scholars would dearly love to examine closely. >> i just noticed something written when she was referring to her being age 10 where she is crying out about the injustices that s

so in 1966, when stokely carmichael comes to detroit to give one of a famous black power speeches, one of the first things he does from the pulpit is called out in famous parks is my hero because she has just been willing to stand. rosa parks helped take the poor people's movement forward after martin luther king is assassinated preachy goes if the with the solidarity rally and attends the black power convention in philadelphia. she's part of a group of black people at the chicago democratic convention that refuses to endorse any candidate. she attends the national black clinical convention in 1972. she works on the defense committee for joann little, gary tyler, angela davis. she is a long-standing opponent of the death penalty. she is an early and is the first opponent of u.s. involvement in vietnam. she takes part in the jeannette rankin brigade, hums with the winter soldiers hearing. she opposes apartheid and in the 1980s will join tickets outside the south african embassy against the apartheid in u.s. complicity in helping to prop up the south african government. eight days after

stokely carmichael would have said i have achieved my goal. none of the said that. none of the people that i knew because all the stuff that the goal was much more radical in some ways than that. get. >> host: why? >> guest: economic change, empowering the black community. that was at the root of the black power movement and black power for black people. using the rights that have been gained to actually bring about concrete changes. i think for many of us we saw 1965 is the beginning, not the end. now we have -- and now the question becomes what he going to do with that? how are you going to -- the black community by that time is 100 years in restrictions and discrimination and you can't just say suddenly they are going to catch up. there has to be a movement and i think as martin luther king says where do we go from here and that is where we still are. we still haven't faced the question of what do we do with the rights that we gained? now that we are citizens what we do with citizenship? >> host: dr. king and you quoted in your book, you talk about moving from th