bridge represents both a painful beginning and hopeful continueum continuum. andrew young wasn't among those who walked across this bridge and was beaten that sunday march 7th 1965 but he was on the other side helping to coordinate the hundreds of people who it turned out. today reverend andrew young is 82. and he says pushing for voting rights with this small alabama city as a backdrop helped move a nation both spiritually and politically after the 1964 civil rights act. >> even though lyndon johnson had been the master of the senate and the majority leader and had more ious than almost anybody in the history of the congress it was hard for him to go right back five months later, for another civil rights bill. but when we left the white house, and i asked dr. king well what do you think, i thought he was being flippant.