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I'm going to show you my credentials, my papers. >> exactly. one of the things that's important in this conversation is that in 1908 when jack johnson won the heavyweight championship and jack johnson was known to travel in the company of multiple white women at one time, booker t. washington actually criticized him and said you're setting the race back. >> 500 years? >> yeah. i don't think it was quite 500 years at that time. [ laughter ] and johnson had choice words for washington. fast forward half a century, and when you saw floyd patterson, the heavyweight champion, and everyone knew he d...

She said in some speeches that dr. king couldn't give, coretta would take the notes, show up on his behalf and give the speech. that's a story we never hear. there's a woman named joanne robinson, who was actually the brains behind the montgomery busboy cot. because she was employed at alabama state university and worried about losing her job, no one knew she was one of the main ones to organize the boycott. in general, the role of women in the civil rights movement is a story that still needs to be told. >> and we're going to continue to keep telling it. thank you, stan and josh. >> thank you...

During the time she was serving as a domestic worker. do we have that image? we don't. but part of rosa parks' story is a story of being violated by the white man in the household for whom she worked. i think part of what was so distressing about the movie is that aspect was so left out. >> exactly. all of the frameworks of exploitation, segregation are actually held external to the xpeenss of the women in this film. sot civil rights movement happens almost as a setpiece out of the narrative, out of the stage and what you get is this tight domestic focus as if that domestic space isn't a space...

Lowery. he says he couldn't help but reminiscing about another historical moment. lowery was with martin king luther jr. at the 1963 march on washington and recalls a conversation between members of their inner circle. we talked about how long before we'd see a black president. and as i recall, none of us saw ourselves witnessing the first black president. we felt that we'd be -- unless we were watching from glory, didn't think we'd live to see it. >> reporter: the man known as the dean of the civil rights movement calls the inaugural benediction one of the most memorable of his long career. t...

Described him, filled with a sense of purpose who was trying to decide whether to enter medicine or law or the ministry. and many years later, after that gifted child had become a gifted preacher, i'm sure he'd have been told to be on his best behavior after he led a busboy cot at montgomery and inspired a nation with his dreams. he delivered a sermon on what he called -- a sermon that said bee all have the desire to be first. we all want to be at the front of the line. that was the life dr. martin luther king, jr., said was to harness that instinct, to redirect it toward advancing the greater...