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Panel. maria teresa kuma, msnbc chief legal correspondent and host of "the beat" and former bush-cheney aide robert rayhoun. i remember when i was a teenager in operation breadbasket, youth director for reverend jesse jackson. i met muhammed ali. i knew him all the way to his passing. i even was able to talk to him not long before he passed. and, you know, he was suffering from parkinsons. i bring that up to say that i watched him in the years he could not fight because he refused to go to the war, indicted, sentenced to jail and went all the way to the supreme court and was able to win his fi...

Has a way of neutralizing some of the fears and some of the ignorance and hate that's now prevailing >> congressman, what does today mean to you? did we take a step forward today? >> we did in the sense that and you said it earlier. we're sharing the history of a great moment with a new generation. and as i have said to young people as i've spoken to them, change has always been brought about by young people. even my good friend, the reverend jesse jackson had no great hairs when he stepped out and became a part of an sclc. and operation breadbasket. napoleon if you look at alexander the great...

Courtesy. in 1966, dr. king appointed jesse jackson of the first director of operation bread basket in the city of chicago. king also killed the program sclc's most spectacularly popular program in chicago, adding 2,000 new jobs and $15 million in new income to the african-american community in its first 15 months. jackson became the national director of operation breadbasket in 1967, and went on to found the rainbow push coalition, and of course laid the groundwork for contemporary african-american political power, with his two runs for the american presidency. i am pleased to welcome reveren...

My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, where i sing. land where my fathers died. land of the pilgrim's pride. from every mountainside, let freedom ring. >> young people took the lead in organizing much of what we now remember as the civil rights movement. one young reader named jesse jackson became the bearer for organizing after king's death. he began his work we king's side. they started operation breadbasket in atlanta in 1963. and the program used a simple economic concept. african-americans would not patronize businesses that denied them jobs, advancement, or

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