pawtucket, 1912. you ve got children there playing, being childrening but gosh, that abject poverty. i guess kids can play anywhere, but they re playing in basically an open-air dump. your thoughts on the inclusion, the message of all of those. let s unwrap that. that last one is by the great muck raking photographer lewis hien. as great inequality as there is today. 2% of the population at that time owned 60% of the wealth. the bottom 60% own less than 5% of the wealth of the country. so you have a man staging the real tensions america has grappled with from the very beginning wham do we mean all men are created equal? what role does government have in being a great counterveiling force? that s one thing. you go back to the march on washington, that s april 28, 1963. that s one of the most important
for the sake of unity can we make these changes? and i couldn t say no to dr. king and we made the changes. let s not forget we re involved in an era of social revolution. even with the compromises john lewis s speech on april 28, 1963 was fierce, though you have a forgotten in the shadow of dr. king s dream. we don t want our freedom gradually, but we want to be free now. in the years after the march on washington, lewis and snick concentrated on registering black voters. the idea is we got more people participating in government and bringing about changes, if we got more people registered to vote so they could practice their fundamental rights. in mississippi during the summer of 1964, the students tried to register voters, with violent repercussions. and in selma, alabama nick
and i couldn t say no to dr. king, and we made the changes. let us not forget that we re involved in a serious social revolution. even with the compromises john lewis s speech on april 28, 1963 was fierce, although often forgotten in the shadow of dr. king s dream. we don t want our freedom gradually, but we want to be free now. in the years after the march on washington, lewis and sncc concentrated on registering black voters. the idea is we got more people participating in government and bringing about changes, if we got more people registered to vote so they could practice their fundamental rights. in mississippi during the summer of 1964, the students tried to register voters, with violent repercussions. and in selma, alabama, s.n.c.c.