His fight is our fight. It was one of those fateful intersections in history that was very important. We are here to say that we are not afraid. One of the reasons why Martin Luther king was so successful was that he understood television. Thank you, doctor. He understood that imagery was everything. People of action. Dr. King understood that you can make people own their shame. The power structures are forced to answer. Right now we want the world to see [ sirens ] hello, sir. How are you . Good. The reason i pulled you over, your brake lights are out. On july 6th, 2016, outside st. Paul, minnesota, officers pulled over 32yearold Philando Castille on a routine traffic stop. Do you have a license and insurance . I have to tell you, i do have a fire firearm on me dont reach for it. Dont pull it out. [ shots ] you just killed my boyfriend we got pulled over for a busted taillight in the back. And the police just hes covered. They killed my boyfriend. Just 40 seconds after the last shot was fired, her 4yearold daughter in the back seat, castilles girlfriend, diamond reynolds, began streaming video live on facebook from her cell phone while the world watched. The officer just shot him in his arms. Theres a female passenger get out of the car with your hands up exit now keep them up, keep them up wheres my daughter . Face away from me we know how the story goes. He was reaching for the gun, i had to shoot him. We know that, she knew that, and she refused to let that be the narrative. She is going to force people to bear witness to this and to see something that has largely been rendered invisible in this country. Its okay, im right here. Before the world ever heard of Philando Castille or any of the other young black men whose public killings awakened the consciousness of the nation, there was 14yearold emmett till. And his grieving mother, mamie. Livestreaming your loved ones death is a 21st century version of what emmett tills back and forth did. She livestreamed her sons death. Mamie tills stunning decision to publish a photograph of her murdered son, emmett, forced the country to confront the horror of racism and set in motion the modern civil rights movement. Americans, they can tell you where they were when john f. Kennedy was assassinated. When Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. Many africanamericans, they remember that moment when they saw emmett tills photograph. I dont know a black person who doesnt know the name emmett till. I dont know a single black person who has not seen that image. About the same age. The same age. It was horrifying. It was my 9 11. It was basically, you know, an act of terror. In 1955, mississippi was ground zero for racial terror in the american south. When 14yearold emmett till arrived from chicago to visit his great uncle, mose wright in a town called money. He was a bigcity kid. He wasnt familiar with the dark heart and 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 worlds. You stick to your own kind, well stick to our own kind. One day, emmett and his cousins go into town, and they go to a Little Grocery store, bryants grocery store. And something happens inside. According to Carolyn Bryant, the wife of the proprietor, the woman who ran the store, emmett till, alone in the store with her, comes on to her and whistles at her. Four days later, bryants guntoting husband and brotherinlaw went looking for the boy at his uncles house. And mose wright begs him to leave them alone, please dont take them. But they take him. And he never returns. Thrown into the tall hatch chee 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. We couldnt just hardly tell who he was. But he happened to have on a ring with his initials. And that said enough. In chicago, emmett tills griefstricken mother, mamie, waited at the railroad station for the casket containing her sons body to arrive. Mamie till is essentially confronted with a sealed wooden casket, nailed shut by the sheriff. It was mamie till who demanded that that box be opened so that 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 countrys 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 mamie insist on keeping emmetts casket open for the funeral, she invited photographer David Jackson from the weekly black news magazine jet to take pictures of his body. She and the editors of jet magazine made the decision they were going to display this for the country. All issues of jet sell out. They published it again the next week. All issues sell out. And its only in the black press, owned by johnson publishing. 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. Mamie till has 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 the whole United States is listening. If the death of my son can mean something to the other unfortunate people all over the world, then for him to have died a hero would mean more to me than for him just to have died. Mamie till, i think got more viscerally than anyone that if she didnt show those pictures, he would just be another black boy gone dead. Roy bryant and his halfbrother, j. W. Mylum, 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, on the ground floor, not that far from where the white press was seated. That was considered a breakthrough. Among the journalists covering the trial were jet reporter Simeon Booker and freelance photographer Ernest Withers. Withers photograph of wright defiantly pointing at emmetts murderers captured a moment, a black man bearing witness to racial terror in the courtroom. The Ernest Withers photo of moses wright, standing up at the trial of tills murderers, is taken certificate repetitiously. I think thats the number one image people remember. The trial lasted 4 1 2 days. One journalist called it the first great media event of the civil rights movement. Ive just received information of an acquittal in the murder charge of emmett till. After little more than an hour of deliberations, the allwhite jury acquitted both defendants. It took 67 minutes. And one juror said, it wouldnt have taken us even that long except we stopped to have a soda. While the defendants escaped punishment, they would not escape judgment. After the trial, this man, journalist William Bradford huey, persuaded them to sell their true story for 4,000. Huey sold the story to look magazine. Its the ultimate insult to injury, having just gone exonerated in this sham of a trial, only to, with no fear of double jeopardy, tell their story. Yeah, we did it. Heres how we did it. Deal with it, america. Arc b remarkably, 62 years later, emmett tills accuser Carolyn Bryant recanted much of her story, admitting she lied about what happened that day in the store. 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All strength we aint stoppin believe me go straight till the morning look like we wont wait were taking everything we wanted we can do it all strength, no sweat next time we go, it will be real. 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 littleknown minister and the leader of a bus boycott in montgomery, alabama, that started when activist rosa park refused to give up her seat to a white man. This is a nonviolent protest using the methodist tactic of resistance. Martin luther king became a man of huge thoughtfulness about the strategy 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 do not return violence with violence. Negro passengers have been humiliated, intimidated 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 gandhiian principles. It becomes preferred 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 flatout ignored them. They didnt often use the names of black people, because that would be a sign of respect. Its galling now to look the at the level of disregard and oblivion that was in the media at that time. As long as you sit in the back, you have a fine sense of inferiority. Not only do you let the white man sit in the front and push you back down, he has a fine sense of superiority. Montgomery bus boy cat. 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. We have no moral charge but to continue the struggle. Not for ourselves alone, but for all america. King developed the strategy of resistance that was 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 the story among the black press and among black people, youre preaching to the choir. Youve got to get outside the church. What special instructions or advice has been given to negro people . If there is violence, that it must not come from negro people. Kings effort to woo the media started to pay off. Soon king was the story, and the story was the movement. More than 12 months now, 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. Media loves a frontrunner. One could argue if dr. Kings first foray into National Television had not been a 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. A year after the montgomery bus boycott, little rock, arkansas, became the stage for the next great drama of the movement. When local naacp leaders handpicked nine black students and pressured the school board to enroll them at allwhite central high school. They were challenging the city to comply with the supreme courts 1954 decision in brown versus board of education, where the court ruled that all Public Schools must be integrated. Eunice green, age 16 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. 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 face the arkansas National Guard, with bayonets. They let the white students enter the campus and barred us from entrance. It was surreal. Outside the school, an angry crowd gathered. They walk in, we walk out. Its not right. They have schools just as good as ours. Eight of the nine black students arrived together that first day. Only elizabeth egbert, 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. 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, is the first of a series of images showing how powerful and virulent southern white racism was. Traumatized by the reaction of the crowd, 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 . There was one journalist elizabeth agreed to talk to, moses newsom, a newspaper reporter for the baltimore afro american. When i heard about it, i rushed over. She recognized me. She said she would talk to me. You know, she sat there talking about what had happened to her. And she says, sooner we face it. We can go back, im going back. Its always stuck in my mind. Something that this 15yearold girl was saying. 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 newsom, followed the students there. We were walking up 16th street. Someone up front yelled theyre in our school. And all hell broke loose. Earl davies runs. Someone tackled him, they take his camera and smash it to the ground. L. Alex wilson, ed tore of the tristate defender, just keeps pa walking. Still photographs, will take that and just magma thatfy it a hundredfold to show you what television was getting. Looking at television, 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, puts it back on, and he keeps walking. His expression doesnt change. L. Alex wilsons decision not to run in defiant 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. In 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. Within hours of eisenhowers announcement, as the American Public watched in shock and disbelief, 1,000 federal troops marched into little rock, and the arkansas National Guard was federalized. It was a huge television event. The president speaking on tv, ordering federal troops into an American City so some black kids could go to school. The fact that he used 1,000 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 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 a forest, does anybody hear it . Before long, millions of americans would hear it. And see it. mom come on, hurry up all systems go . Mission Control 5 4 3 2. Ignition and liftoff. vo audi etron. The next frontier of electric. I appreciate what makes each person unique. Thats why i like Liberty Mutual. 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