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Dismissing them as racist. >> mom, they are not giving to my getting a good education. it makes little sense to chand "build the wall" to a country with literally zero illegal immigrants. >> trying to figure out where race relations stand in this country. >> we have come a long, long way from the days of dogs, fire hoses, lynching, those types of things, but they take different forms today. kkk, the, they are getting tiki torches and wearing pullovers. >> laura: even catholics like father james martin jumped on the condemnation train, to eating "they attempt to shame and to disrespect a man at...

It happens on the steps of the lincoln memorial. >> we've come a long, long way from the days are police dogs and fire hoses and lynchings and those things but those activities take different forms and manifest themselves differently. the kkk and nazis aren't running around in hoods burning crosses, getting tiki torches and wearing izods and pullovers. >> and walking in public. >> yes. a very different dynamic. the scab on civil rights and racism, plugged, pricked, pulled off again, and we are trying to figure how to deal with it. unfortunately a lot of americans thought we were past that. we ...

Nonviolent army was unlimited. >> during the weeks' long birmingham campaign, king himself was arrested. from his cell he composed one of the movement's seminal documents, his "letter from a birmingham jail." he wrote, "we know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor. it must be demanded by the oppressed. for years now i have heard the word 'wait.'" it rings in the ear of every negro with a piercing familiarity. we must come to see that justice too long delayed is justice denied. >> more than a thousand schoolchildren, first high school students, the...

>> the constant pressure of these stories, the pictures of the police dogs and the fire hoses and the kids being arrested, those were all powerful firecrackers, if you will, on policy in washington. you start to see the country as a whole saying, "this is intolerable. this has got to stop." and that puts the pressure on. >> reporter: by now the mainstream press was covering all the horrible things in the movement and particularly what had happened in birmingham, and that's an important moment in time because it kind of opens up the door for lyndon johnson. it gets him the space needed to pick ...

>> dr. king realized that if you have embers and you have gasoline, all you need to do is get a spark and things will burn. >> we had instructed people. you don't run from dogs. you back away from them. you continue to look at them. >> i was 16 and i was stupefied by those images. i see these 6-year-old kids marching into dogs and fire hoses singing freedom songs. and when they see the dogs and fire hoses, they don't run. >> they would pin us to the light poles to keep us from going any further down the