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Assemble. >> there are times when i would be very discouraged, but i always remembered that, deep within, there is a spirit that is beyond my physical strength. >> her whole being was dedicated to god. she was highly spiritual, highly understanding of purpose and that we have a life to serve. >> during the last couple years of her life, me and my father we would go see her and her caretaker would be there with a smile on her face, and come on in. rosas been asking about you. >> yes, when she pas...

>> his smooth voice was like medicine to the soul. it was as if dr. king was speaking directly to me. >> i rarely saw her show emotion, but when dr. king was assassinated i saw her cry at his funeral. >> i was losing the people i loved best. my husband and brother were all sick and there was a time when i was traveling every day to three different hospitals to visit them. i had to quit working full-time and work only part time. >> uncle and auntie rosa loved each other, to the end. as it is heal...

Mother parks was at the end of the line. nelson mandela looked up, saw mother parks at the end of that row. he rushed down with his arms outstretched, rosa, rosa, rosa and held her so tight. he lifted her up the off the ground. that exuberant response from nelson mandela meant everything about who was the real celebrity among that list of vips. >> i have never gotten used to being a public person. i have more honorary degrees than i can count, interviewers still only want to talk about that one ...

She died when my grandfather was very young, and then john edwards died two. and overseer took over the plantation, and he dislike my grandfather. he treated him so bad that he had a very intense passionate hatred for white people. my grandfather was the one that instilled to my mother, that you dont put up with bad treatment for anybody. it is passed down almost in our jeans. >> they had a shotgun, ready and i sat up with him all night, and i still have -- from some of the things i went through...

Joined her. we determined to see that rosa parks was recognized. >> there are so much patriarchy built into the movement, like it is built into so many institutions. women raise most of the money, to most of the organizing, but when you go back and check the record, those who have been labeled presidents or directors or leaders the grand poobah have all been men. a lot of the women have done the work and mother parks, she was doing the work. >> by the 1960s you have this evolving black liberatio...

Silenced. >> dr. king and up getting the accolades. he is invited everywhere to speak, makes money, survive, he is the hero. civil rights group would have her speak at the events that raise money, but it never occurred to anybody that they ought to find some way for them to be supported. >> i think that part of the way she was treated was because she was a woman. therefore, taken advantage of. >> it is a small town, people have to know that she was no longer working. ken, none of them offered he...

We were about eight or ten blocks from where she lived. every thursday night i would have meetings and rosa parks was there. she was right up on the front seat, i always talked politics with her. i got to know her pretty well and also her husband, he was a very fine gentlemen. >> you never hear that much about raymond because he was very quiet, behind the scenes kind of individual. you will find that rosa parks and raymond parks are inseparable. >> the man is out front, and you never hear about ...

♪ ♪ ♪ >> malcolm acts has come to detroit and he makes it known that he wants to meet rosa parks. >> malcolm acts looked on to people in the civil rights movement with awe. that was fannie lou hamer and rosa parks. >> when every had an opportunity to talk about the role of women, rosa parks would be the first name out of his mouth. saying that youve got to push a little harder, be more aggressive, take a stronger sense for self determination for liberation in our society. so malcolm saw ro...

Response time. what does it tell you that the shooter in that short window was able to inflict that much damage with a pistol? >> well, he was apparently in a break room at close range, but the majority of gun violence and mass shootings are perpetrated with handguns, they are concealable. he was able to get that far because he didnt walk in with an ar-15 but plumably with a handgun concealed under ace clothes. >> jennifer and mary ellen, stand by. we want to update viewers on new information. i...

Had been warned by others in walmart that he was someone to look out for because there were always some kind of issues going on with him, some kind of odd behavior. she said she didnt have any personal experience with him in that regard, but that she had been warned about him. we have been pressing walmart officials for several hours whether any disciplinary action has been taken against ving previous to this, or anyone registered complaints about him. they have not answered those questions in p...