5 past the hour. time to take a look at the morning papers. the new york times, a lawsuit over new york city s controversial stop and frisk program has led the city to the city expudging hundreds of thousands of names in a database of people police have stopped. the city is volunteers purging about a half a million names. the new york civil liberties union is hailing it as a victory saying the city is acknowledging at least this aspect that the program went too far. and the los angeles times, president obama will commemorate the anniversary of the march on washington. with his own speech at the lincoln memorial. he will deliver it 50 years after martin luther king gave his famous i have a dream speech on august 28th, 1963. the president last spoke on the steps of the lincoln memorial before his inauguration in 2009.
[ robert ] we created legalzoom to help people start their business and launch their dreams. go to legalzoom.com today and make your business dream a reality. at legalzoom.com we put the law on your side. we re just learning there are reports out of chicago, the chicago police department has made 175 arrests in grant park. grant park is where they have set up the chicago version of occupy wall street. saw some photos of it last night with tent and so forth. we usually check out big weekend editorials and op-eds and today we wanted to focus on the dedication of the national memorial to martin luther king so here s what we found, contemporaneous accounts. james restin, august 28th, 1963, coverage of the jobs and justice mlk march on washington and i offer this as an antidote to the clips we played before, someone in the moment at that time getting what they are saying. this is restin writing. i have a dream, he cried, again
we ll bring you more updates on msnbc as events develop. and now for today s other news. you know this picture, don t you? this is martin luther king jr. standing on the steps of the lincoln memorial in our nation s capitol, august 28th, 1963. his most famous speech, the one we call i have a dream. you probably, however, don t know this guy standing beside dr. king that day. that s walter reuther, in some ways the inventor of the modern lane american labor movement. here he is again marching that day. he became a union organizer in michigan in the sometimes difficult and sometimes violent strikes of 1936 and 37. at the time workers in the big auto plants were coming home sick and injured and exhausted. and no matter how long or how hard they worked, they were coming home broke too. the auto companies didn t want unions, but the workers struck and they struck hard, and the workers eventually won. on february 11th, 1937, gm signed its first contract with
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street. we usually check out the op eds, and today we wanted to focus on the memorial to dr. king. and this is august 28th, 1963, cover of the jobs and justice march. and i offer this as an antidote to the clips we played before as somebody in the moment at that time getting what they are seeing. i have a dream he cried again and again. phrases from the constitution, all ending with a vision that they might all one day come true. he was full of the symbolism of lincoln and gandhi, and he was militant and sad and sent the crowd away feeling like the long journey had been worthwhile. what a great piece of reporting. the flip side of the hostile press role that we saw in the