0 ur cashflow. i m nelson gutierrez of strictly bicycles and my money works as hard as i do. this is what membership is. this is what membership does. i have a dream. the day that changed america forever. the march on washington. august 28th, 1963. people of all races, regular people from all walks of life, marching against injustice, marching to change history. we are the moral revolution. how long? we want our freedom and we want it now. a call to ask and a call for peace. a word that inspired a people, a nation and the entire world. free at least, free at least. thank god almighty we are free at least. tonight a special hour-hour toll particulars nation. the march on washington. the dream continues. good evening. i m al sharpton live from the lincoln memorial here on the national mall. first years ago hundreds of thousands of people stood where i am right now watching history. millions more watching at home, seeing the leaders of the civil rights movement. call for j
coming up, i ll talk to two women whose lives were forever changed by that day. and as we go to break, here s legendary singer and civil rights activist harry bellefonte on what the march meant to him. to be in washington was for me today a beginning really. a kind of a climax to generations of hope. i ve see. otherworldly things. but there are some things i ve never seen before. this ge jet engine can understand 5,000 data samples per second. which is good for business. because planes use less fuel, spend less time on the ground and more time in the air. suddenly, faraway places don t seem so.far away. ever. she let him plan the vacation.
0 dr. joseph lowrie, the dean himself. it s an honor you re here with us tonight as well as tomorrow. you are one of the only survivors that was in leadership 50 years ago. a cofounder of the sclc where dr. king chaired the board, became president. and you lived to tell us. and you live to do the invocation for the first african-american president of the united states barack obama. benediction. the benediction. get it straight. you closed. last word. you had the last word. all right. well, dr. lowrie, how do you feel? first of all, let s go back. how was those times? because people don t realize this wasn t just a bus outing coming to washington. there was major struggles in the south. james farmer who headed one of the civil rights groups couldn t even make it, he was in jail. there had been blood shed. would be a non-violent experiment. a non-violent experience. and surely enough there wasn t a single arrest that i recall made. there was no violence. people were joyful. p
and there s this incredible photo in there, i ll let people look at it themselves, where you just capture a bit of the crowd and you can literally from looking at it so many years later. here we go. you can feel the energy. that s one of them. here s one shot. the one on the mall which is incredible. you really can. we talked to harry bellefonte as part of the project and he had met king a few years earlier and king called him up and had him charter a flight from hollywood to bring, you know, high-profiled celebrities to help had show the kennedy administration this is going to be a peaceful protest, these are some of our most respected members of our community will be there supporting this event. the other thing, julien bond, who was an active member of the movement at that time and later became the head of the naacp, he points out something you see in the pictures which is this was not simply an african-american crowd. it was an integrated crowd. it was all of america at th
0 egyptians. the path towards violence leads only to greater instability, economic disaster, and suffering. the only sustainable path for either side is one towards a political solution. good morning, everyone. welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, august 15th. obviously some really grim developments. no doubt about it. i mean, financial times puts it best, a day of bloodshed in egypt. the new york times talks about hundreds of egyptians being killed as a government attacks them. and, of course, here s the wall street journal talking about how the egyptian regime smashes protests with bloody rage. you have, of course, the same thing in the usa today and as you said, mika, the pictures coming out of cairo, coming out of all of egypt absolutely sickening and shows us this country really is just in a state of anarchy. we have sam stein and jon meacham along with willie geist. let s get to our top story and go live to the scene. egypt s interim prime minister says the gover