and it s just about one dollar per person. but it does so much to alleviate the pain of the poor. it turned out six of the companies involved in that were in seattle. i had been invited by the mayor of seattle to the mayors prayer request for thanksgiving. i said why don t you do what they did in india, since your companies did it for india? he did not know whether they could do that. yesterday, the governor invited me back for his prayer break and the legislature is doing something to try to help the poor. they had tried to get the money they government a lot some without all the middlemen. that is progress. we are looking at progress here socially but i still remember the farmers, i remember the people who let us camp on their land. i remember the ones who put up their property for bonds when we went to jail. the children are doing all right . they re going to school at these universities and doing well, but they still own this land. if we don t find them a new crop, they a
this is american history tv on c-span3. [applause] let me thank god this day for there is no other place i would rather be at this hour than in the house of the lord. amen. before i say what i want to say, which will be quick, i must proud i am to once again have i am proud to have my wife and our daughter here with us. [applause] the only grandchild of martin and coretta king. i was asked to do a tribute, and it has been 50 years, but i am not feeling like a tribute because i find it challenging to celebrate yes, we celebrate so many who some gave their lives and others walked over the bridge yesterday 50 years ago and were beaten badly, but when we think about what martin luther king, jr. would want us to do, i imagine he would tell us that our work was not done. do, i imagine he would tell us that our work was not done. it has certainly been 50 years and there are so many here today that would not have been here. cabinet secretary that were certainly not here
you greetings as well as welcome for all of you being here in the city of soelma once again as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the civil rights movement. i would like to say that on behalf of the citizens of selma which is about 20,700+ citizens i bring you greetings and welcome on behalf of them as well as the city council members. i would like to say also that our city of selma is an old city, incorporated in 2018. 2018. oh, since the 1820 s. i apologize. [laughter] i got a little ahead. 1820. certainly as we go through this history, pegasus, what, about 195 years old roughly? incorporated because there was already something there, but it became a incorporated, and i made is the third oldest city in alabama, monbile one, montgomery second and selma third. anytime i come to this church, i become full. i have hit it for a long time. my mother went to this church all of her life. she passed way some years ago, many years ago but always on mother s day when she was alive a
this is american history tv on c-span3. [applause] let me thank god this day for there is no other place i would rather be at this hour than in the house of the lord. amen. before i say what i want to say, which will be quick, i must proud i am to once again have i am proud to have my wife and our daughter here with us. [applause] the only grandchild of martin and coretta king. i was asked to do a tribute, and it has been 50 years, but i am not feeling like a tribute because i find it challenging to celebrate yes, we celebrate so many who some gave their lives and others walked over the bridge yesterday 50 years ago and were beaten badly, but when we think about what martin luther king, jr. would want us to do, i imagine he would tell us that our work was not done. do, i imagine he would tell us that our work was not done. it has certainly been 50 years and there are so many here today that would not have been here. cabinet secretary that were certainl