Is the if enemy of grace, dignity, respect leadership, who is the epitome of grace, dignity, respect, leadership. In this godordained moment, we welcome this afternoon the reverend dr. Bernice king, the chief executive officer of the king center, founded by her mother in 1968, appointed to this position in january, 2012, by the board of trustees. Dr. Bernice king is known as one of the most prolific, powerful motivating and anointed orators today. She leaves audiences requiring you to think and process what you have heard, and then stand up and do something. She challenges us to live by a standard. See understands the power of standards and the power of living on purpose, living out your legacy. Yes, she is the legacy. Born the youngest daughter of the late Coretta Scott king and the reverend dr. Martin luther king jr. She began her oratorical journey when she spoke in her mothers stead at the United Nations at the age of 17. Now she has spoken to audiences all over the world educated and credentialed. She is a graduate of Spelman College with a master of divinity and a doctorate of law from emory university. She has received an honorary doctorate of divinity and is currently a member of the state bar of georgia. Impactful and transformational she has a strong concern for the youth of today about our communities and the family partnerships, dedicated and committed. On january 30, 2007, the first Year Anniversary of her mothers death, she returned to her alma mater at Spelman College to announce the establishment of a scholarship in honor of her mother, correct and scott king. In keeping with this vision, in 2007, she spoke at the inauguration of the correct and scott king womens leadership Coretta Scott king womens leadership academy. In 2011, she announced the 100 days of Nonviolence Campaign to expose young people to nonviolence as modeled by her father, the reverend dr. Martin luther king jr. She is a visionary and strategic and reparations. Dr. King founded be a king, Whose Mission is to rebrand generations of people to elevate the way they think, act, live, and lead. In september of 2007, she launched the first summit in montgomery alabama, on the campus of Alabama State university. Prolific prophet whose dna is that of greatness, she is a woman, a friend, a woman of excellence and achievement, a woman of power and determination, a woman of purpose who lives out her daily commitments to our mighty god, a woman who is transforming lives in this generation using the precept of nonviolence. Old, impactful extraordinary brilliant, creative, captivating, majestic, anointed, appointed, black, and highly favored. Montgomery, let us give a warm alabama welcome to the daughter of dr. King, the reverend dr. Bernie a. King. Rev. Bernice king wow. Thank you very much, my good friend. You have made it hard for me up here today. Governor bentley mayors, senator, mrs. Peggy wallace kennedy, to all of the foot soldiers i thank you for the way in which you sacrifice your life in support of the leadership of my father. To all of the marchers and the new generation of activists and warriors that will usher us into a new day of justice, freedom and equality. The distinguished Program Participants thank you for speaking true. I am certainly honored to be with you today as the daughter of Martin Luther king jr. And Coretta Scott king. My mother was born on the soils of alabama in marion alabama. Im honored as we commemorate the 50th anniversary of my fathers speech at the culmination of the historic selma to montgomery march. 50 years ago, in a state that was stubbornly transitioning from treacherous segregation to Voting Rights for longvilified people, the governor was not in attendance for my fathers speech. Today, not only is the Current Governor of alabama here, but Peggy Wallace kennedy, the daughter of a man who was governor in 1965, george wallace, is here today, to extend an olive branch on behalf of her late father. 50 years ago, it was malice that would not allow daddy to speak from the steps. He spoke his timeless words from a flatbed truck in the midst of a boisterous crowd. Today, i stand where he could no t stand. [cheers and applause] to synthesize our past with our present, and to speak those same profound words that he spoke. 50 years ago, my fathers words reverberated in the atmosphere as the nation and the world grapples with the horror and inhumanity of mans demands on bloody sunday. Today, i speak to you from the experience of walking across the andaman pettus bridge a few weeks ago with nonviolent warriors from that infamous day and with the first African American president , barack obama, barack obama, and his family. It is 50 years later. Since the critical moment in history, we have made tremendous strides, but let it not be lost on us that many of my fathers words from 50 years ago still resonate today. They have the same power because we are facing similar issues. People are still subject to Police Brutality with many unarmed who are unnecessarily being killed. Economic disparity and poverty continue to be cruel reminders of misplaced priorities. The Prison Industrial Complex with its education to prison pipeline, is a perpetual blight on his consciousness. The Fair Housing Act is in jeopardy on the gutting of the Voting Rights act has opened the door for new Voter Suppression laws even in this state to disenfranchise many turning back the clock on some of the progress we have made as a nation. Therefore, we as a people must demand that Congress Restore the Voting Rights act. [cheers and applause] and now is the time for the state of alabama to rise to the occasion in this jubilee year to release itself from the past of oppression repression, and suppressive laws, to ensure laws allow voting for all of its citizens. All of this serves as a reminder to us that tomorrow is today. We must operate with the fierce urgency of now. If you are an unregistered voter kiam appealing voter, i am appealing to you to register to vote now. Do not delay. We cannot live aimlessly as though our struggle is over. In the words of my mother, struggle is a neverending process. Freedom is never really won. You earn it and you win it in every generation. So today, you will now hear the words of the prophet king, my father still speaking to us providing us with wisdom inspiration, and instruction in our struggle. With truth and justice on our side, we march on. Now, i have been asked to share with you those words my daddy said with the marchers 50 years ago today. It is not an accident that one of the great marches of American History should terminate in montgomery alabama. Just 10 years ago in this very city a new philosophy was born of the negro struggle. Montgomery was the first city in the south in which the entire Negro Community united and faced oppressors. Out of the struggle a new idea more powerful than guns or clubs was born. The negro took it and carry it across the south. It is electrified the nation and the world. Strangely, the climatic conflict always was fought and won on the alabama short. White america was profoundly aroused by birmingham because it witnessed the whole community of negro facing terror and brutality with her row it current. The nation finally forced congress to write legislation in the hope that it would eradicate the stain of birmingham. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 gave negroes some part of their rightful dignity, but without the vote, it was dignity without once more, the method of nonviolent resistance was once again, a community was mobilized to confront the adversary. Again, the brutality of a dying order strings across the land. Selma, alabama, became a shining moment. If the words of American Life lurked in dark streets it arose passionately. The concentration of good and evil compressed in the Tiny Community of selma generated the master power to turn the whole nation to a new course. President johnson rightly praised the kurds of the negro for awakening the conscience of a nation. On our part, we must pay our profound respects to the White American food cherished their democratic tradition White American tradition. From selma, back to montgomery, a trail wound bloody, yet, it had become a highway up from darkness. Alabama has tried to nurture and defend evil, but evil is choking to death in the dusty roads and streets of this state. So, i stand before you this afternoon with the conviction that segregation is on its deathbed in alabama. The only thing uncertain about it is how costly they will make the funeral. Our whole campaign in alabama has been centered around the right to vote. It focused the attention of the nation on the flagrant denial of the right to vote. We are exposing the very origins of the racial segregation in the southland. Racial segregation as a way of life did not about as a natural result of hatred between the races immediately after the civil war. There were no laws segregating the races then. Toward the end of the reconstruction era, something very significant happened. That is what was known as the populist movement. The leaders of this Movement Began awakening poor, white masters, and the former negro slaves, to the fact that they were being not only that, they began uniting the negro and white masses in a voting bloc that threatened to drive the interests from the command post of political power in the south to meet this threat. The southern aristocracy began immediately to engineer this development of a segregated society. I want you to follow me through here because it is very important to see the roots of racism and the denial of the right to vote. Through their control of mass media, they revise the doctrine of white supremacy. They saturated the thinking of the poor, white masters. They clouded their mind to the real issue involved in the populist movement. They then directed the placement on the books of the south laws that made it a crime for negroes and whites to come together as equals at any level. Thats tripled and eventually destroyed the populist movement of the 19th century. It may be said that the slavery era gave the negro jesus, it may be said that the reconstruction era, the southern aristocracy gave the poor white man jim crow. When he cried out for the food his empty pockets could not provide, he ate jim crow, a psychological bird that told him, no batter how bad it was, at least he was a white man better than the black man. When his undernourished children cried out for the necessities that low wages could not provide, he showed them the jim crow kind on the buses, in the stores, on the streets, and public buildings. His children learned to feed upon jim crow. Thus, the threat of the balance of the negro and white masses alike resulted in the establishment of a segregated society. They segregated southern money from the poor white. They segregated southern mores from the rich whites. They segregated southern churches from christianity. They segregated southern mines from honest thinking min from honest thinking. They segregated the negro from everythingds. That is what happened when the south threatened to unite and build a great society, a society where none would prey upon the weakness of others, a society where greed and poverty would be done away, a society of brotherhood where every man would respect the dignity and worth of human personality. We have, long way since that travesty of justice was perpetrated upon the american mind. Today, i want to tell the city of selma. Today, i want to say to the state of alabama, today i want to say to the people of america and the nations of the world that we are not about to turn around. We are on the move now. Yeah. We are on the move and no wave of racism can stop us. We are on the move now. The burning of our churches will not deter us. The bombing of our homes will not dissuade. We are on the move now. The beating and killing of our clergyman and young people will not die verdes. We are on the move now. The release of known murderers would not discourage us. We are moving to the land of freedom. Let us therefore continue our triumphant march to the realization of the american dream. Let us march on segregated places until every ghetto and economic depression dissolves and negroes and whites live sidebyside in sanitary housing. Let us march on segregated schools until every vestige of segregated and inferior education becomes a thing of the past, and negroes and whites standing sidebyside in the socially healing context of the classroom. Let us march on poverty until no american parent has to skip a meal so that their children may eat. March on poverty until no man walks the streets of our cities and towns in search of jobs that do not exist. Let us march on poverty until racial summits in mississippi are sealed and broken lives in sweltering ghettos are mended. Let us march on ballot boxes until race issues disappear from the political arena. Let us march on ballot boxes until let us mkarch on march on how it boxes until we tell our city councils, legislators, and the United States congress, men who will not fear to do justly, live by god. Let us march on ballot boxes until brotherhood becomes more than a meaningless word in an opening prayer, but the order of the day on every legislative agenda. Let us march on ballot boxes until all over alabama gods children will be able to walk the earth in decency and honor. I know there is a cry today in alabama. We see it in numerous editorials. When will Martin Luther king all these civil rights agitators, white clergyman students, and others, allow alabama return to normalcy . I have a message i would like to leave. That is exactly what we dont want. We know that marian led to the root all murder of jimmy lee jackson. It was normalcy that led to the murder of innocent girls. It was normalcy on highway 80 that led state troopers to use tear gas, and horses and billy clubs against unarmed human beings who are simply marching for justice. It was normalcy by a cafe and selma, alabama, that led to the brutal beating of reverend james reeb. It is normal see all over our country which leaves the negro perishing on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of vast ocean of material prosperity. It is normalcy all over alabama that prevents the negro from becoming a registered voter. No, we will not allow alabama to return to normalcy. [cheers and applause] the only normalcy that we will settle for is the normalcy that recognizes the dignity and worth of all of gods children. The only normalcy that we will settle for is the normalcy of brotherhood, the normalcy of true peace, the normalcy of justice. I must admit to you that there are still some difficult days ahead. We are still in for a season of suffering. In many areas of mississippi many areas of louisiana. I must admit to you that there are still jail cells waiting for us, but if we will go on with the faith that nonviolence and its power and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows , we will be able to change all of these conditions. I know you are asking today, how long will it take . Somebody is asking, how long will prejudice blind the visions of men, darken their understanding, and drive brightid wisdom from her sacred throne . Somebody is asking, when will wounded justice, lying prostr ate on the streets of selma and birmingham and communities all over the south be lifted from this dust of shame to rein supreme among the children of men . Someone is asking, how long will justice be truce of five crucified and truth buried . However difficult the moment, however frustrating the hour, it will not be long, because truth crushed to earth will rise again. How long . Not long. No lie can live forever. How long . Not long. You shall reap what you sow. How long . Not long. Truth forever on the scaffold wrong forever on the throne, yet that scaffold sways the future and behind the dim unknown stand god within the shadow keeping watch above his own. How long . Not long. The ark of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. How long . Not long. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the lord. He is trampling out to the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored. He has loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible, swift toward. His truth is marching on. He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat. He is sifting out the hearts of men before his judgment seat. O, be swigft my soul, to answer him. Be jubilant my feet. Our god is marching on. Glory, hallelujah. Glory, hallelujah. Glory, hallelujah. Glory, hallelujah. His truth is marching on. [cheers and applause] you are watching American History tv, 48 hours of programming on American History every weekend on cspan3. Follow us on twitter at csp anhistory. Keep up with the latest history news. This sunday on q a, erik larson on his new book dead weight. Erik it gets complicated when the question arises as to what ultimately happened. Why was the lusitania allowed to enter the irish sea without escort, without the kind of detailed warning that could have been provided to captain William Thomas turner but was not . This has led to interesting speculation about, was the ship essentially set up for attack by churchill or someone in the admiralty . Its interesting. I found no smoking memo. I believe i would have found a smoking memo with it existed. There was nothing from churchill to Jackie Fisher or somebody else saying, lets let the lusitania go into the irish sea because we wanted to get sunk. Nothing like that exists. Sunday night at 8 00 eastern and pacific on q and a. 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