rosa parks and my house. we got the calls. and when she finished cursing and calling us all kinds of names, she said, now i ve got to call rosa. reverend, through all of the years of watching some of the people that you worked with, struggled with, go through death threats, you as well, the abernathys bombed, you bombed, and you lived through it all and you are standing there with the addiction for the first black president, one of the first to endorse him when he was running, how do you look back from standing there that day at the capitol steps with the benediction as the one that survived and you can look back to all the way to 63, 50 years ago today, it s an amazing journey. amazing isn t the proper name for it. it s hard to realize that in those days we talked about a