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We didn't think we'd live to see it. >> reporter: the man known as the dean of the civil rights movement, calls the benediction one of the most memorable moments of his career. that says a lot about a man that lived through the riots falling kings death and helped plan the bus boycott in montgomery. the one moment that is most of his life happen inside deced in alabama. the organization there was to protest a conviction of a mentally challenged man named tommy lee hines, convicted of rape and fleeing the scene in a car in 1979. >> and tommy couldn't ride a bike. he didn't have the coordination...

Getting the word around to the various citizens in montgomery that the bus boycott was something important to the citizens and in minute bombry and in particular the african-american community and we as students who were active in that particular time served as communicators meaning we delivered the message to the people in order to get them involved. >> and joseph, you were an army vet. you're still an army vet, i should say and that's an environment where you're all one. you're all equal and you come in to this, that must have been frustrating. >> yes, it was. i arrived at alabama state basi...

Wherever the heck they want. two of those students here now. james mcfadden and joseph peterson, plus the president of alabama state university also here with us william harris was instrumental in making this event happen. gentlemen, it's great to see all three of you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>. >> all right. james, let's start with you, you not only participated in this sit-in, but your activism goes back to the bus boycott. what inspired you to be so active in both? >> what inspired me is in 1956, the bus boycott was about a year old when i arrived in alabama state and being raised by a...

And many years later, after that gifted child had become a gifted preacher, i'm sure he had been told to be on his best behavior, after he led a bus boycott in montgomery and inspired a nation with his dreams, he delivered a sermon on what he called "the drum major instiblgt." a sermon that all said we have the desire to be first. we all want to be at the front of the line. a great test of life, dr. martin luther king jr. said, is to harness that instinct, to redirect it towards advancing the greater good, towards changing a community and a country for the better, toward doing the lord's work....

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