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Came down to police brutality. we were demonstrating and marching, protesting in front of the different stores here in town for the right to be served at lunch counters. >> they used cattle prods, if you know what a cattle prod is, on us here in gaston. i still have burns and spots on my body today where they had stuck those cattle prods to me. >> the fires of frustration and discord are burning in every city. next week i shall ask the congress of the united states to act, to make a commitment t...

>> well, if you saw -- if you looked at -- when you see the people marching and you see the dogs and the hoses in alabama, you see children. and i was a child then. i did get a chance to march the last leg of the selma to montgomery march. but every weekend we were doing something. we were marching for to desegregate churches, lunch counters, schools. and thats the way it was. every weekend we would march. the children. the children would march. and they had some great sandwiches too. and i was ...

Came down to police brutality. we were demonstrating and marching, protesting in front of the different stores here in town for the right to be served at lunch counters. >> they used cattle prods, if you know what a cattle prod is, on us here in gaston. i still have burns and spots on my body today where they had stuck those cattle prods to me. >> the fires of frustration and discord are burning in every city. next week i shall ask the congress of the united states to act, to make a commitment t...

Montgomery march. but every weekend we were doing something. we were marching for to desegregate churches, lunch counters, schools. and thats the way it was. every weekend we would march. the children. the children would march. and they had some great sandwiches too. and i was a fat kid. and i loved marching for sandwiches. id like to tell you i was out there for justice and civil rights. but as a fat kid, i was really out there for the sandwiches. it was a great time. because our whole communit...

>> you know, you were only 12 years old that day. and do you remember what you were thinking about during the march? >> i do. i remember thinking, even before coming to the march, but i remember thinking how important it was, because living in -- growing up in detroit, michigan, i lived the dream that dr. king talked about. i lived in an integrated neighborhood. we rode the bus. my mother and i, she didnt drive. we ate at lunch counters. i went to an integrated church. so when i heard that peopl...

In his hands." >> reporter: in the end, the 200,000 who turned out spent a peaceful day capped by a memorable speech. >> i have a dream, my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. i have a dream today. >> reporter: ten months later, president lyndon johnson signed the civil rights bill into law. >> the civil rights act of 1964 created modern america. it ended the civil war 100 years later. ...

To tans and lunch counters and washrooms for blacks and whites. my own parents marriage would have been illegal in certain states. someone who looked like me, often had a hard time casting a ballot much less being on a ballot. but over time, laws changed. and hearts and minds changed. sometimes driven by courageous lawmakers, but more often, driven by committed citizens. politicians often times follow rather than lead. and so, especially young people helped to push and to prod and to protest. an...

In disguise when he was doing that investigation. he dressed as a field hand on his trips to collect evidence for that crime. he was known to drive 100 miles an hour to get safely out of town and to try to shake anybody who was following him. thats what it took to be the field secretary for the naacp in mississippi in 1955. he worked for voting rights in mississippi before there was a voting rights act. when registering to vote or trying to vote meant risking your life and it particularly meant ...

Answer the question. he wouldnt say if he thought businesses should be able to discriminate based on race. >> these are important philosophical debates but not a practical discussion. >> its pretty practical to those who had their life beaten out of them trying to desegregate walgreens lunch counters. this is not a hypothetical, dr. paul. >> it is a hypothetical. the day after that interview, paul said that he wanted to be clear, saying he would have voted for the civil rights act and wouldnt su...

>> but its different in father conroys house. he has a law degree, but he thinks god put him in congress to cure him of politics. >> i have asked for serenity in the area of politics because, it controlled me, i didnt control it. i could get as angry as angry could be about politics. so, as i was praying that serenity prayer in the area of politics, well, how did god answer this prayer for me? he put me in the house of representatives. where my job is not to have an opinion and not to express my...