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Joining us now is nbc news correspondent anne thompson, who i believe is live right now heading east on 14th street in downtown new york city. anne thanks for being with us. whats going on where you are? >> reporter: rachel, i am walking east on 14th street with a couple of hundred protesters. i have to tell you that tonight the crowds are more organized, but theyre lacking the people who just felt that punch in the gut yesterday when the grand jury did not return in an indictment in the death o...

To fix any problems, changes that include police retraining and body cams on officers fanned throughout the city. some are being tested today. but new york is hardly the only metropolis being met with protests. jason carrolls been following demonstrations around the country. i see a gathering behind you now. but what are authorities and protesters expecting tonight? is this going to get even bigger? >> reporter: well have to wait and see. demonstrators are using social media. they are much more ...

Heading east on 14th street in downtown new york city. anne thanks for being with us. whats going on where you are? >> reporter: rachel, i am walking east on 14th street with a couple of hundred protesters. i have to tell you that tonight the crowds are more organized, but theyre lacking the people who just felt that punch in the gut yesterday when the grand jury did not return in an indictment in the death of eric garner. these protesters are far more organized. theyre a smaller group. we walke...

The 1964 civil rights act was voter registration. >> bewildering hodgepodge of election laws from state to state prevents many from voting. boss-controlled political machines disenfranchise others by downright fraud. a negro citizen may go to register only to be told that the day is wrong or the hour is late or the official in charge is absent. >> there are five counties in mississippi, each at least 57% negro, in which no negroes at all are registered. >> today marks the beginning of a determin...

A negro citizen may go to register only to be told that the day is wrong or the hour is late or the official in charge is absent. >> there are five counties in mississippi, each at least 57% negro, in which no negroes at all are registered. >> today marks the beginning of a determined, organized, mobilized campaign to get the right to vote all over this state. >> martin luther king chooses the city of selma because it has the worst record of any southern city on black voting. >> we will dramatiz...

Abuse of our immigration system. we have a situation right now where our federal government is pretty much aiding and abetting and facilitating these individual aliens. these illegal aliens cross our borders illegally. we apprehend these illegal aliens that surrender themselves because theyre getting a free pass. this you an organized, orchestrated situation. orchestrated by the drug cartels. its pretty much a rampant abuse of our immigration system. >> so hector, what do you suggest? it is a re...

Late or the official in charge is absent. >> there are five counties in mississippi, each at least 57% negro, in which no negroes at all are registered. >> today marks the beginning of a determined, organized, mobilized campaign to get the right to vote all over this state. >> king chooses the city of selma because it has the worst record of any southern city on black voting. >> we will dramatize this whole situation and seek to arouse the conscience of the federal government by marching by the ...

Election laws from state to state prevents many from voting. political machines disenfranchise others by downright fraud. the negro citizen may go to register only to be told that the day is wrong or the hour is late, or the official in charge is absent. >> there are five counties in mississippi, each at least 57% negro in which no negroes at all are registered. >> today marks the beginning of a determined, organized, mobilized campaign to get the right to vote all over this state. >> martin lut...

>> a bewildering hodgepodge of election laws from state to state prevents many from voting. boss-controlled political machines disenfranchise others by downright fraud. the negro citizen may go to register only to be told that the day is wrong or the hour is late, or the official in charge is absent. >> there are five counties in mississippi, each at least 57% negro in which no negroes at all are registered. >> today marks the beginning of a determined, organized, mobilized campaign to get the r...

Is absent. >> there are five counties in mississippi, each at least 57% negro in which no negroes at all are registered. >> today marks the beginning of a determined, organized, mobilized campaign to get the right to vote all over this state. >> king chooses the city of selma because it has the worst record of any southern city on black voting. >> we will seek to arouse the conscience of the federal government by marching by the thousands on places of registration all over the city.