of that is the result of the sustained focused and organized work of a movement that over the last two years has been propelled by youth driven grassroots activism young people who amplify anger, outrange ajtd frustration into a campaign for social justicement we can see some of the dna of the definitive freedom struggle of the previous centuriment radicalized young people played essential roles in the civil rights movement s most pivotal campaigns. the movement to end police violence has borrowed at least one page them. both used video images to highlight the vulnerability of black bodies and expose injustices against black lives. this modern day movement is separate and apart from what came before. it took weeks of planning to engineer the moment on the ed
fun to see people come together all races, all ages of people coming together. reporter: you can see the crowd as they kind of swell over the bridge people tell us they were not going to stop to the idea of being able to stand here and walk across the bridge. so many people walked from home yesterday saying they wanted to be here on sunday and that s something they are able to experience a lot of smiley faces, a lot of messages about all civil rights and a lot of communities coming together to have this conversation on this bridge. it looks like many more young people there as well. van jones, you and i were standing there alongside one another when congressman john lewis and president obama came out and hugged president obama paying homage to all the foot soldiers but particularly john lewis, he was one of his biggest heroes and we heard the message from both of them who said
yesterday was both a celebration and it was an occasion of renewal. how do you see marked differences between yesterday and today? you know it s really amazing because yesterday people thought we were at a peak moment i think there were maybe 20,000 30,000 people here. today may turn out to be even bigger. again, they have already taken the bridge. and also let s not forget there is a new civil rights movement of the coalition for immigrant justice, you had lois juerta. you also have people here from around the world. we have a bunch of women who are here from africa and they are bringing their protests. i want you to hear some of the music they re bringing to the streets.
transsexual struggle. he impressed upon that word we, being all inclusive, and we know that the ed monday pettis bridge and what happened on that bridge it not of course enlightened a nation those women there singing, represents southern africa southwestern africa so ryan does it appear that the audience is much younger today? many of the foot soldiers came out yesterday, a lot of the sig dpar dignitaries that represented the generation that stepped on that bridge 50 years ago, many of them now in their 80s, 90s, we saw amelia boynton who was 103, but today do you see the youth represented in a very big way today? reporter: i m glad you brought up ms. boynton, and you
the people who were pushing over the bridge. they re having a good time they re smelling as they go across the bridge. when you re standing there, you know how much history now, because everyone s been talking about it how do you feel the be here today. i feel like it s really cool that we can be here and that we can actually see the bridge that people walked on like 50 years ago. reporter: when president obama talked about the idea of the struggle not being over and the need to vote are you going to make sure that you kperexercise your rights to vote? i personally feel blessed and it s a privilege for us all to be here because at a certain point in history, we were not able to have this right. what . reporter: what s the crowd like to walk around and see everyone in the crowd. it s really crowded, but it s