august 28th, 1963 was the hottest day in history. i remember having hot feet and putting them in water. i was a little kid and i couldn t see anything. it was kind of like anxious now to get back on this yellow rickety bus. i particularly remember mahalia jackson. only because everyone around me had just gone wild. mahalia was the catalyst to that moment. she was a call to order. she was calling everybody to come before doctor spoke. a great one-two punch.
we know our voice is not enough, we have to be talking on the street. not just southern faces. not at all. ohio. ohio, wisconsin, it would be easier if it were just a narrative for congress to expand this. two board of election members were fired for the crime in montgomery county in ohio, lieberman and richie, for the crime of trying to expand early voting access fired by the secretary of suppression in the state of ohio. i love that, the secretary of fair elections for all. secretary of suppression. a lot of people holding that job. thank you for your work and thank you for coming in today. coming up next, martin luther king iii talks to me about his father s legacy and where to go from here. also young activist hoping to follow in dr. king s footsteps. august 28th, 1963, dr. martin luther king, jr., and thousands
and remember the speech by the sound bites that have filtered through the years. and not just the parts that have been bizarrely appropriated by glenn beck. i have a dream. my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. i have a dream today! because this was about much more than just dreams. it s when president obama and tens of thousands of americans descend upon the washington mall tomorrow to commemorate the march and the speech. they will also be going to remember the incredibly awe dishes agenda that drove that speech. because let s remember, almost a quarter of a million people came together in washington on august 28th, 1963, for something called the march on washington for jobs and freedom. this gathering wasn t just about putting an end to jim crow laws and a segregated south, this was about economic disparity,
time for both my family and myself, i m pleased that the judge released the race claims and i m looking forward to getting this behind me now that the remaining claims have been resolved. so what remains to be seen here is whether deen can make a comeback while admitting in a deposition she used the n word a very long time ago. i have a dream. that freedom reigns. a big day today, thousands of people are gathering in the nation s capital. that s right, they re marking the 50th anniversary of a defining moment for u.s. civil rights. the reverend martin luther king jr. s march on washington for jobs and freedom. on august 28th, 1963, king electrified the nation with his i have a dream speech at the lincoln memorial. a march and rally will start at the memorial on the national mall in two hours. so marchers will be heading to the mlk memorial.
marches to celebrate the milestone weekend. so many of the planned events are centered around the very famous martin luther king jr. speech. as we all know he was the last of 10 speakers to take the podium august 28th, 1963. final four minutes where he went off script that we all remember so well. many say that movement spudder the passage of landmark civil rights acts of 1964 and the voting rights act of 1965. now, our own kelly wright sat down with reverend jesse jackson who remembers that speech. listen. it was not one dream. the dream unfolded but the day he gave that speech, and the racial an arcky, there was not a black elected official or juror across the whole south. texas up to maryland, we couldn t use a sink or public toilet. my high school class could not take pictures on the lawn of the state capitol of south carolina. black soldiers had to sit behind prisoners of war military basis. a way then from the