Intersections in history that was important. One of the reasons he was so successful is he understood television. He understood that imagery was everything. Show the pictures. Show the images. Violence is that visual. It prompts people to action. Arresting children for what . The right to vote. People need to own their shame. Their story of struggle and trium triumph. They began beating them. Is is the american story. A story still being told. Dr. King said you have to create a crisis so the power structures are forced to answer. July 6th, 2016 outside st. Paul, minnesota, officers pulled over a man on a routine traffic stop. Dont pull it out. Dont pull it out. Stay with me. We got pull ed over for a buste tail light in the back and the police, hes covered. They killed my boyfriend. 40 seconds after the last shot was fired her 4yearold daughter in the the backseat his girlfriend began streaming video live on facebook from her cell phone while the world watched. Get the female passenger out. Exit now. Keep them up. Wheres my daughter . You got my daughter . We know how the story goes. He was reaching for the gun, i had to shoot him. We know that. She knew that. She refused to let that be the narrative. She was going to force people to bear twons this and to see something that is largely been rendered as being individual vizable this this country. Its okay. Im here with you. Before the world heard of any of the other young black men whose public killings awakened the consciousness of a nation, there was 14yearold emmet till and his grieving mother. Live streaming your loved ones death is a 21st century version of what emmet tills mother did. She live streamed her sons death. Her stunning decision to publish a photograph of her murdered son forced the country to confront the horror of racism and set in motion the modern Civil Rights Movement. Americans can tell you where they were when john f. Kennedy was assassinated. Africanamericans remember that moment when they saw emmet tills photograph. I dont know a black person who dont know the name emmet till. Were about the same age. It was horrifying. It was my 9 11. It was basically an act of terror. In 1955 mississippi was ground zero for racial terror in the American South when 14yearold emmet till arrived from chicago to visit his great uncle in a town called money. He was a big city kid and not familiar with the social taboos of the jim crow south. Black people and white people interacted only on a transactional basis, but they were largely two different words. You stick to your own kind, well stick to our own kind. One day emmet and his cousins go into town and go to a Little Grocery store. And something happens inside. According to caroline, bryant, the woman who ran the store, emmet till comes on to her and whistles at her. Four days later bryants guntoting husband went looking for the boy at his uncles house. And he begs him to leave him alone. Please dont take him. But they take him and he never returns. Hes thrown into the river with a 70pound cotton gin fan attached to his neck with a barbed wire. A few days later a boy fishing in the river discovered a body beaten beyond recognition. The body was so badly damaged we couldnt tell who he was, but he havent to have a ring on with initials. In chicago emmit met emmet tills mother waited for the casket to arrive. She is essentially confronted with a sealed wooden casket nailed shut by the sheriff. It was her who demanded that that box be opened so she could see her child. She kind of staggers in and sees this body and she cant believe her beautiful child is this lump of flesh thats lying in this casket. Then she said to herself, the country is going to have to confront this. Im not going to suffer in this by myself. If this is what youre going to do to black boys, youre going to look at it. Not only did she insist on keeping emmets casket open for the funeral, she invited a magazine to take pictures of his body. She and the editors of the magazine made the decision to display this for the country. All issues of the magazine sell out. They published it again next week. All issues sell out. Its only in the black press. The white press didnt even see it at first. It was quite a controversy about why would jet print this terrible picture. They wanted to make a point. Just to show you how bad things were. Mimi till had something very important to teach. Show the pictures. Show the images. She wanted the world to see the ravages of racism. The brutality of bigotry. I believe that thes whole United States is mourning with me and if the death of my son can mean something all over the world, for him to have died a hero will mean more to me than for him just to have died. She got more vis reallily than anyone if she didnt show those pictures, he would just be another black boy gone dead. Roy bryant and his half brother were arrested and accused of murder. Their trial was held in sumner, mississippi, just two weeks after the funeral. Although black reporters were kept separate, it was one of the first times in the south that they were permitted to sit in the main courtroom with the rest of the press. Instead of being up in the balcony frequently called the crows nest, they were allowed to sit at a table not that far from where the white press was seat ed. That was considered a breakthrough. Among the journalists covering the trial a jet reporter and freelance photographer earnest withers. Withers photograph of the witness stand defiantly pointing to his nephews murders captured a rare moment of a black man baring witness to a racial terror in a courtroom. The photo is standing up at the trial of tills murders. Its taken by the number one image most people remember. The trial lasted four and a half days. One journal iist called it the first great media event of the Civil Rights Movement. Ive just received information of an acquittal in the murder charge of emmet till in the four count. After a little more than an hour of deliberations, an allwhite jury acquitted both defendants. It took 67 minutes and one juror said it wouldnt have taken us each that long except we stopped to have a sew ta. While the defendants escaped punishment, they would not escape judgment. After the trial, this man, journalist William Bradford hughy persuaded them to sell their true story for 4,000. He sold the story in look magazine. Its the ultimate insult to injury. Having been exonerated in this sham of a trial only to with no fear of double jeopardy tell their story. We did it. Heres how we did it. Deal with it, america. Remarkably, 62 years later in 2017, em met tills accuser recanted much of her story ad t admitting that she lied about what happened that day in the story. Look magazine never published the graphic photographs of tills mental crueltylateded corpse and few White Americans saw them at the time. But soon a leader would emerge who understood how images of racial violence could bring about change and he would force the nation to face them. With priceline, bundling our lowest prices on flights, hotels and rental cars means you spend less time planning and more time travelling. We like that by the way, these chairs are ours. Everyone is already sitting. By the way, these chairs are ours. Applebees new loaded chicken fajitas. Now only 10. 99. When crabe stronger. Strong, with new nicorette coated ice mint. Layered with flavor. Its the first and only coated nicotine lozenge. For an amazing taste. That outlasts your craving. New nicorette ice mint. Hey, who are you . 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This is rare early footage of the 27yearold man who before long would become a legend. But in 1956, Martin Luther king jr. Was a little known minister and the leader of a bus boycott in montgomery, alabama, that started when activist rosa parks refused to give up her seat to a white man. This is a nonviolent protest using the method of passive resistance. Martin luther king was a man of huge thoughtfulness about the strategy that he had asked those who followed him to use. And that strategy was that in the face of violence, you have a moral high ground if you did not return violence with violence. Negro passengers have been humiliated, intimidated. Reporter at first the young minister who went by the unassuming name of m. L. King was only covered by black journalists writing for black papers. In particular, the birmingham world, a black newspaper and its editor emory jackson. He writes about long before anyone else that dr. King is invoking gandhian principles. He becomes referred to in the black press as the black moses. The white editors, they were just living in a different world. The majority press, the white press basically ignored africanamericans and not just episodes of violence against them, but achievements, anything to do with their daily life. Basically flat out ignored them. They didnt even often use their names. The names of black people because that would be a sign of respect. Its galling now to look at the level of disregard and oblivion that was in the media at that time. So long as you sit in the back, you have a false sense of, inferiority, and so long as you let the white man sit in the front and push you back there, he has a false sense of superiority. Montgomery bus boycott. Unbelievably successful from the very first day, and it took weeks to get a National Reporter in there. I think it was six weeks before a news magazine came in and then 12 weeks before a major newspaper came in. To continue the struggle. Not for ourselves alone but for all of america. He developed a strategy of resistance designed to challenge the status quo while never making White America feel threatened. He consciously set about creating a character palatable to all of america. Martin luther king understood that if youre only telling this story, you know, among the black press, youre preaching to the choir. Youve got to get outside the church. What special instructions or advice have been given to negro people . If there is violence, that it must not come from negro people. Kings efforts to woo the media started to pay off. Soon, king was the story. And the story was the movement. For more than 12 months we, the negro citizens of montgomery, have been engaged in a nonviolent protest. The boycotters faced Death Threats and persecution. But under the leadership of dr. King, they mounted a successful and peaceful campaign. Facing financial crisis and failing in the courts, the city of montgomery relented and ordered that black passengers be allowed to sit anywhere. America likes a winner. The media loves a frontrunner. One could wonder that if dr. Kings first foray into National Television had not beena success, would the media have turned around and gone home . I dont know. Well never know, thank god. Its Early Morning here at 1121 cross street in little rock, and the new school day is dawning. Reporter a year after the montgomery bus boycott, little rock became the stage for the next drama of the movement when local naacp leaders handpicked nine black students and pressured the school board to enroll them at all white central high school. They were challenging the city to comply with the supreme courts 1954 decision in brown vs. Board of education where the court ruled that all Public Schools must be integrated. Ernest green, age 16, 12th grade. When they said, are you interested in transferring to central, i said, hey, why not . My attitude was that change was coming, i want to be a part of it. Im ready to change the face of the south. Reporter the story took an unexpected turn when the governor defied the courts and ordered the National Guard to block the black students from entering the school. The first day we faced the arkansas National Guard with bayonnets. They let the white students enter the campus and barred us from entrance. It was surreal. Reporter outside the school an angry crowd gathered. The minute they walk in, then thats when we walk out. Its not right. They have schools just as good as us. Reporter eight of the nine black students arrived together that first day. Only Elizabeth Eckford whose family didnt own a telephone arrived alone. Elizabeth didnt get the message that we were going to meet at the 14th street side of the school and not the 16th street side of the school. We had the protection of each other and this group of ministers and elizabeth didnt have anybody. She really took the brunt of it that day. This black young teenager all by herself being frightened and screamed at, its the first of a series of images showing how powerful and virulent southern white racism was. Reporter traumatized by the reaction of the ground elizabeth refused to speak to news crews. Can you tell me your name, please . Are you going to go to school here at central high . Dont care to say anything, is that right . Reporter there was one journalist elizabeth agreed to talk to, moses newson a newspaper reporter for the baltimore afroamerican. When i heard about it and rushed over and she recognized me and she said she would talk to me. You know, she sat there talking about what had happened to her, and she said as soon as they say we can go back, im going back and that just always sort of stuck in my mind. Something that this 15yearold girl was saying. Reporter after a threeweek standoff in little rock, a federal judge ordered that the arkansas National Guard be removed. The following monday, september 23rd, the black students once again attempted to enter the school. Photographer earl davey and three black reporters including moses newson followed the students there. We were walking up 16th street, someone up front yelled theyre in our school and all hell broke loose. Earl davey runs. Someone tackles him. They take his camera and they smash it to the ground. L. Alex wilson, the editor of the tristate defender just keeps walking. Still photographs caught that. Well, take that and just magnify it 100 fold to show you what television was giving. You know, i looked at television and there was somebody beating mr. Wilson. Mr. Wilson was just being pummeled. In fact, one of the guys said run, damn you, run. And he just kept walking. Wilson creases his hat and puts it back on and he keeps walking. His expression doesnt change. L. Alex wilsons decision not to run in defiance of the mob was rooted in an incident from his boyhood in florida. As a kid l. Alex wilson had seen the klan come to town and he ran and he hated himself for having done that and he said he would never run again. Hes 49 years old. Hes got nerve damage from what happened in little rock that day. Three years later in 1960, age 51, he is dead. Good evening, my fellow citizens. For a few minutes this evening i should like to speak to you about the serious situation that has arisen in little rock. Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts. Reporter within hours of eisenhowers announcement as the American Public watched in shock and disbelief, a thousand federal troops marched into little rock and the arkansas National Guard was federalized. It was a huge Television Event ordering federal troops into an American City so some black kids could go to school. The fact that he used a thousand paratroopers to provide protection made a hell of a statement, especially in the black community. Black people were used to the government being against them, not for them. So, the notion of troops being used for africanamericans was a revolution, a revelation and a novelty. We were blessed by the fact that these images were shown by the media because there probably were other cases before us in which there was no media, no image, you know, if a tree falls in the forest, does anybody hear it . Reporter before long, millions of americans would hear it and see it. door bell rings its open hey. This is amazing. With moderate to severe ulcerative colitis, are you okay . Even when i was there, i never knew when my symptoms would keep us apart. So i talked to my doctor about humira. I learned humira can help get, and keep uc under control when other medications havent worked well enough. And it helps people achieve control that lasts. 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