she said in some speeches that dr. king couldn t give, coretta would take the notes, show up on his behalf and give the speech. that s a story we never hear. there s a woman named joanne robinson, who was actually the brains behind the montgomery busboy cot. because she was employed at alabama state university and worried about losing her job, no one knew she was one of the main ones to organize the boycott. in general, the role of women in the civil rights movement is a story that still needs to be told. and we re going to continue to keep telling it. thank you, stan and josh. thank you. all right. that does it for me. thanks so much for joining us. i will see you back here next weekend at 4:00 p.m. eastern. until then, have a great week. [ male announcer ] we all deserve a good night s sleep.
united states of america. you have been listening to president obama as they dedicate the statue today of rosa parks reminding us the civil rights icon would have turned 100 years old this month, during black history month. the president started off saying we celebrate a seamstress. there we have the statue there. the president pointing out she now has her rightful place with those who shaped this nation s course. a reminder to all of us, it was the busboy cot that she started with martin luther king jr., a young man in his 20s back then. that s going to wrap things up for me today. thanks for your time. i appreciate it. we are going to have live coverage tomorrow of the pope stepping down. joining me, we will have father
during the time she was serving as a domestic worker. do we have that image? we don t. but part of rosa parks story is a story of being violated by the white man in the household for whom she worked. i think part of what was so distressing about the movie is that aspect was so left out. exactly. all of the frameworks of exploitation, segregation are actually held external to the xpeenss of the women in this film. sot civil rights movement happens almost as a setpiece out of the narrative, out of the stage and what you get is this tight domestic focus as if that domestic space isn t a space of politics or isn t a space of change. or thinking about rosa parks history as part of a movement, the montgomery busboy cot wouldn t have worked if it hadn t work for the hundreds of thousands of domestic work hes who participated and yuch held that boycott who refused to ride the buses and who walked the streets to show that they were refusing to ride. and didn t need and there were white
lowery. he says he couldn t help but reminiscing about another historical moment. lowery was with martin king luther jr. at the 1963 march on washington and recalls a conversation between members of their inner circle. we talked about how long before we d see a black president. and as i recall, none of us saw ourselves witnessing the first black president. we felt that we d be unless we were watching from glory, didn t think we d live to see it. reporter: the man known as the dean of the civil rights movement calls the inaugural benediction one of the most memorable of his long career. that s saying a lot for a man who helped plan the montgomery busboy cot and lived to tell about the riots that followed king s death.
described him, filled with a sense of purpose who was trying to decide whether to enter medicine or law or the ministry. and many years later, after that gifted child had become a gifted preacher, i m sure he d have been told to be on his best behavior after he led a busboy cot at montgomery and inspired a nation with his dreams. he delivered a sermon on what he called a sermon that said bee all have the desire to be first. we all want to be at the front of the line. that was the life dr. martin luther king, jr., said was to harness that instinct, to redirect it toward advancing the greater good toward changing a