having some form of social equality. i think this is inevitable. and i don t think our society will rise to its full maturity until we come to see that men are made to live together as brothers. that was reverend martin luther king jr. appearing on meet the press just three days before he would deliver his i have a dream speech during the march on washington for jobs and freedom. this sunday, meet the press will reair the entire august 25th, 1963, edition featuring dr. king. as we approach that anniversary, the 50th of the march on washington, events are being held throughout the nation s capital. we re also looking back at dr. king s legacy. part of it can be found in cities throughout the nation where streets bear his name. sadly, many of the streets are in the worst part of town. i took a closer look at what it s like to live on mlk street. for years melvin white s postal route took him along st. louis s dr. martin luther king drive, a street that hardly lives up to
a lot of different places. and did you find that violence plagued those areas? were there any safe spots? no. wow. there was california where you went from we went we drove the whole boulevard out so you went from oakland all the way up to berkeley and it was like the scenery changed. you saw how it went from 0 lower class to upper class in that short of of a distance. if you would have went to usc in los angeles, it s the same thing on mlk boulevard. it s shocking. when you talked to people who lived ond these streets or had businesses on these streets, did they even put that together, that here was a man who preached nonviolence yet these streets were so filled with crime? no. what do they tell you? basically, it was like, you know, there was from the beginning from when they first had the mlk street named it kind