helped defy the conscience and the voting righting act was passed. it s that conscience we need to get, the sense of community back again. if we have that, we can move forward. without it, we can t. doris, how lucky for us to have a first person account of the march on washington from you this morning. if you can, just for our viewers, everyone, of course, knows that the i have a dream speech was a watershed moment in this country, but just put into context where we were as a country at that point in august of 1963. as rev pointed to in our last hour, it was just about 2 1/2 months later. the birmingham bombing that killed four young girls, 14 and 11-year-old girls at the baptist church. less than a year later, the civil rights act was signed. there was so much in the air when dr. king stepped up to that microphone. what was so important was for many years already, black people in the south and with their white compatriots, too, had been sitting in, had been marching,
short order, after the civil rights act? how do we stop this? i think it s the heart of the story we have to tell ourselves. and the story we have to tell ourselves is that we have always been on this hamster wheel, where there is an attempt to address the contradictions at the heart of the country, and then there s the betrayal. but we ve described as the backlash. you ve done all that we can do, and then we doubled down on her ugliness. so, we need to understand 1963, august of 1963, as a moment, but if we look at it across the entire spectrum of the black freedom movement, we see those forces unleashed immediately. immediately! to undo it. the civil rights act of 64, the voting rights act of 60, five getting in the question. freedom is not an end. now, it s a practice, and so what did we see immediately after the voting rights act of 60? five civil rights act of 64? we saw a concerted effort to
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in an interview with the new york times in 1980 night, sidney poitier, discussed what it was like to be america s first black actor on the long road to winning an oscar he said, during the period when i was the only person here, no bill cosby, no eddie murphy, no denzel washington, i was carrying the hopes and aspirations of an entire people. i had no control over content. no creative leverage except to refuse to do a film, which i often did. i had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fence. it was a terrific burden. i had the honor of meeting sidney poitier a few times i ve group dinners. and i knew maryland bergman, but you didn t have to know these people to love them. and that love began with the love we share for their work. one thing i know that they all share is a belief in the ideals by sidney poitier, in august of
i had the honor of meeting sidney poitier a few times at group dinners and i knew marilyn bergman, but you didn t have to know these people to love them and that love began with the love we share for their work. one thing i know that they all share is a belief in the ideals expressed by sidney poitier in august of 1963 in an interview in a studio in washington, d.c., where on that day sidney poitier joined martin luther king jr. jr. in the march on washington. i became interested in civil rights struggle out of a necessity to survive. i found having lived in new york and in other parts of america over the last 20 years since i came from the caribbean, i found it necessary for self-protection and for to perpetuate my survival that i involve myself in any activity that would ease