to deliver a very good speech. we come without reservation. reporter: this week, flanagan brought his daughter bax to the place history was made. he ll be back saturday. this is where the entertainers were. reporter: cox is going to prefer to stay away, and he says that the marching days are behind him. both agree that much was accomplished that i dashgs but the work is not over. while we are better today than in 1963, we are not where we thought we would be 60 years on. we have succeeded in a number of things of the past, but we have to do much more for the future. reporter: both mr. cox and mr. flanagan express grave concern as well as civil right leaders are doing the same that there is an ongoing effort in this day and age to try to turn the clock back, and this is why they are so concerned about where we are now, and big
reporter: flanagan is 80 now, and on the day of the march, he was a 20-year-old who had just finished his shift as a waiter, and like scores of others, he wanted to take a stand for civil rights. i was very close to joan biaz, and i noticed that she was barefoot, and i had on a brand-new pair of shoes. she was barefoot? we are not afraid and a march six decades ago seen through the eyes of two different men that shared the same goal of many that day. it was in fact, a march for jobs and freedom. the thought today is that we succeeded in changing the country. reporter: and cox was responsible for arranging safe transportation for the people coming from the south to washington, d.c., and there were challenging top-to-bottom and many had to be done in very little time. the challenge from the bottom was the logistics of getting
freedom. reporter: it was a call for economic and racial equality and a call to action that brought more than 200,000 people to the national mall in washington, d.c., on august 28th, 60 years ago, and a day best remembered for martin luther king jr. s historic i have a dream speech. now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. reporter: among the hundreds of thousands, two young activists filled with hope. i was all of the way on the top. reporter: all of the way on the top to the left. yeah, over to the left. reporter: courtland cox is 82, and 60 years ago, he was a 22-year-old working for the civil rights organization sncc, the student nonviolent coordinating committee. what i remember is that the platform is there in the dead center. reporter: and robert flanagan was there, too. i was sitting there on the wall up the of the entertainers.