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On poverty, these require investment. i hope our government will respond to the dream speech in that way. i want to know, though, what s going on in your heart 50 years later, as you heard that speech of the you re one of the beth speech i ever heard was 1988 at the democratic national convention. i listened to that speech. i am somebody. well, it really started here f. we had tents out here on resurrection city and i had been asked to be the mayor by reverend abernathy. that morning, you know, spirits were low, dr. king had been killed. robert kennedy had been killed. the people were looking to me to give something. i had nothing to give them, no money, no food, no bus ticket back home. i heard from howard thurman, when your back is against the wall, you have something left. i am, and i matter. that really came from here, ....
Get in the sanctuary at one time. you didn t have megachurches. you had radio. and radio was a part of every black person s life. so when dr. king or reverend abernathy or joseph lowery or any of the civil rights workers would come by the radio station, we stopped playing the temptations and james. we would hand the microphones to the civil rights workers maybe sometimes drop it out the window and they would tell us when and where we were going to march. you ll be hosting tomorrow and we ll take it to the 21st century. thank you both for joining us this evening. thank you for helping us bring tens of thousands here. still ahead, they came by train, by bus, even by foot across hundreds of miles. coming up, i ll talk to two women whose lives were forever changed by that day. and as we go to break, here s legendary singer and civil rights activist harry bellefonte ....
People. and only a hundred of them could get in the sanctuary at one time. you didn t have megachurches. you had radio. and radio was a part of every black person s life. so when dr. king or reverend abernathy or joseph lowery or any of the civil rights workers would come by the radio station, we stopped playing the temptations and james. we would hand the microphones to the civil rights workers maybe sometimes drop it out the window and they would tell us when and where we were going to march. you ll be hosting tomorrow and we ll take it to the 21st century. thank you both for joining us this evening. thank you for helping us bring tens of thousands here. still ahead, they came by train, by bus, even by foot across hundreds of miles. ....
Black president but really we weren t sure we d ever live to see one. i never thought i would. i was older than ralph and martin and older than juanita a little bit. but i never saw i d see a black president. and then when he called and asked me to do the benediction or the invocation, i told him that i would check my calendar to see if i was clear that day. and the newspaper carried the story the following day that i was going to do the benediction and my friends called and said we want you to do the invocation. i said, no, i ll have the last word. we didn t think we d ever see a black president but god moves in mysterious ways. did you, mrs. abernathy, when ....
Dr. abernathy nominated him the president of the montgomery movement and your house and church was actually bombed the night they formed the southern christian leadership conference. that s right. you lived under daily threat. i don t think people understand the price that was paid to get us to where we are today. give us a sense of how it was to be the co-pilot of this great movement. well, one of the things is that we had death threats every day for five consecutive years. there was a woman hired by the white citizens council, or the koo klux klan. we thought it was the white citizens council. she came on duty at 7:00 a.m. in the morning and worked until 7:00 p.m. in the evening and a man came on duty at 7:00. they called us everything with death threats, we re going to blow your so-and-so head off and your little children and it was constant. ....