someone admired by martin luther king, nelson mandela, and malcolm x. but sadly, his legacy has been tarnished, degraded and banished from the american narrative. in large part due to the legal opinion that you just heard and the criminal justice system that affected his unjust conviction. the conviction was not just painful for his family, but for his followers. it has made all of our lives less rich. it has robbed us of an important part of our history. so i myself never heard the name marcus garvey until i was 15 years old and reading my favorite look, the autobiography of malcolm x, a book that changed my life. i found that marcus hervey was someone that malcolm x father had worked with. i went to research, who is this guy? i went to a local public library to find information, because of the public school where i was there was no book on marcus garvey. i read a book called "black moses" by david cronin. it was seen as a balance treatment of marcus garvey and his movement and presented garvey as a well-meaning dreamer who was a buffoon, who was to ostentatious for his own good and

during the era of martin luther king or rosa parks, let us not underestimate our capacity for change in the present moment. the point being we have to raise money, resources, the will to bring about change in policing culture in this country, but it can be done. the country is not nearly where it should be, but it is certainly not where it was. while we may be resource-constrained, the fact of the matter is our people have done a whole lot more with a whole lot less, so we refuse to be discouraged and disheartened, even with the present circumstances. jesse: you brought up the presidential campaign earlier, but first, did you get a response from any of the presidential candidates to the pledges you asked them? second, where does the naacp stand as far as this year's presidential election goes because it has been a lot of conversation around the country about voting rights? there has been a long conversation recently about how the political candidates relate to the african-american community. where as far as voting rights goes? have you heard anything from the political candidates bac

. kingin with martin luther day. it is often very similar to january 16, around the same time. ,artin luther king as a pastor his ability to express his faith in word and in deed had a tremendous impact on his civil rights actions. celebrating religious freedom day is very important. encourage prayer in your school. in 34 states there are moments of silence laws. half of those are mandatory. the other half are optional. even in some of those they leave it up to the teacher. you can go to our website, find your state, download the long that deals with that. --help you then as a church a schoolteacher cannot distribute these but we encourage churches to distribute this prayer card. it looks like this. it has a beautiful prayer on it. you can download a sheet of these. this prayer comes from a rhode island high school. they had a banner hanging on the wall that had a beautiful prayer on it. an atheist student sued the school and said that is a prayer . the court agreed that it served no academic purpose. i was fine with that. i think we christians often go for symbolism over substance. we had that pray

judge people like martin luther king says by the content of the character rather than the color of their skin. maybe most of americans are really trying to do that. then i listen -- i heard sheriff david clark talk about how welfare has heard the black population. --ave bought that for years thought that for years. hopefully the republicans haven't done what needs to be done for it but the democrats keptnot done anything but the poor people down. what can we do about that? we need to change that. were people have incentives and desires to work and are proud and have self-esteem that the welfare system has taken away. host: rodney in maryland, democrat. good morning to you. caller: good morning. think to state what i along with a number of african-americans tend to vote democratic. for one thing while the democratic party is not perfect by any means, but the republican party frequently sends a message of great hostility towards the african-american community. news, talk to fox radio, you hear a constant message that somehow african-americans, hispanics are advancing at the expense o

the agents of that transformational change. [cheers] dr. stein: as martin luther king said, the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. arc is bending through us right now. we are the actors in something that is much bigger than us as we struggle toward peace, justice and healing together. [cheers] dr. stein: that arc of justice is moving through us as we mobilize, to ensure that every black life matters and we end violence policing and broken windows policing as the first go five -- sco 5 and the millions march new york city just achieved by moving out the leadership of their police department that had overseen broken windows policing. they are turning the tide in this crisis of racist policing. that arc of justice is moving through us as we sit in and as wheelock down -- as we locked down and stop fracking pipelines and fossil fuel trains and coal and export terminals and all manner of poisonous fossil fuels and nuclear infrastructure. [cheers] dr. stein: that arc of justice is moving through us in philadelphia, like i have never seen, in the city of broth

in this country during the era of martin luther king or rosa parks, let us not underestimate our capacity for change in the present moment. we have to raise money, resources, the will to bring about change in police and culture in this country, but it can be done. the country is not nearly where it should be, but it is certainly not where it was. while we may be resource-constrained, the fact of the matter is our people have done a whole lot more with a whole lot less, so we refuse to be discouraged and disheartened, even with the present circumstances. jesse: you brought up the presidential campaign earlier, but first, did you get a response from any of the presidential candidates to the pledges you asked them? second, where does the naacp stand as far as this year's presidential election goes because it has been a long conversation around the country about voting rights? there has been a long conversation recently about how t the political candidates relate to the african-american community. where as far as voting rights goes? have you heard anything from the political candidat

of martin luther king junior and people like that, but now that we have got to do see it again that are african-american neighbors and others as well are treated unfairly, do not get as good of an education, jobs, job right, put into jail and they are discriminated against and they are beginning to realize that as well. i think if we listen to what is going on and try to take steps to correct the problems that we face, then we will be much better off as a nation. it takes a lot of political courage to admit that we have made some mistakes and now let's correct them. america has already -- always have the right in the ability, maybe it takes too long to say, ok, we have made our mistake and was corrected. mr. clinton: let's give him a hand, jimmy carter. thank you. [applause] mr. clinton: i had no idea he was going to say that at the i read several months ago somebody was making fun of me in one of these internet theyles because acknowledge all of the things i acknowledged error on. these are five things he said he made a mistake on. i have made millions of decisions that were not to

young and martin luther king jr. and rosa parks and lyndon johnson and harry truman. i had barcodes operated against my business but i never had a threat to my life like others have had. to teach the history of what has been done in the past and we could all, within our own families so heroic. go about saying, to point out their achievements have not been perpetuated because of a natural tendency of anyone of us to feel superior to someone else. we all have an element of pride and great within us. at least better than an alcoholic, a black person or a woman, we have those misconceptions that we are better than someone else. but we, i think that could be done, yeah. we will have people collect the -- could be done. and some degree jump from the schools. >> we will have people collect the yellow cards so we can grab these questions and get them on the air. we have people who are tweeting and writing questions, a volunteer is coming around to collect fees. jim -- mr. carter: but i have to go to willie nelson concert tonight. [laughter] >> i hope i can come. [laughter] one of the bigges

roosevelt, kennedy, martin luther king junior. it has been dormant for too many decades. god bless you all. thank you. [applause] thank you all for being here, let's see what the election results bring, no matter what it brings. ♪ >> plane rides and presidential transparency, the story available at nytimes.com. thank you very much for being with us. >> thank you for having me. >> some alarming parallels between access we are getting or not with the clinton and trump campaigns. what did you learn? i found most surprising, i have been doing this a while, is that neither candidate has the press on his or her airplane. especially surprised me with mrs. clinton because she is running a more traditional campaign. mr. trump's flying his own plane. but either way, this robs the public of glimpses of the candidates, and more importantly, because people say we do not care and it is all staged, which i do not agree with, it is symbolic of their approach to the press, which can be very controlling. mr. trump has been a more accessible in terms of interviews and interacting, so the onus is more on mr

figures, martin luther king and robert kennedy. robert kennedy in the midst of a .rimary in the midst o in the case of king, you had riots on a level that you just could not see today. i'm not saying that there is not some turmoil in the country at this time, but i don't think you have a sense of the kind of national turmoil that you had in the year of 68. host: independent line in california, mark, you are on. caller: speaking with the first racistabout it was a part of his speaking, it was and the college students, make --that if he could that he could really quiet the college students down, so it was a racist thing, and it was a way -- from the college students from getting out there and expressing their rights as far as protesting. guest: that is a good point. college students were definitely a part of those people that did not hit the silent majority. they were the ones who were loud, they were the ones who were in nixon's mine, tearing down campuses and protesting the vietnam war. that was a crucial element of what richard nixon did. he did not think that protest was a good thing

. martin luther king jr. on april 4, 1968 died trying to help a sanitation worker. and that's what this is all about. some people get richer and richer and are doing better and better and others are getting , poorer and poorer. it's not right, it's not fair it's not just. so get out there, keep walking keep marching, keep talking, keep pushing. keep pulling. you will have a great victory. ♪ >> it is time for mcdonald's to make the right decision. we know that this company has spent $30 billion over the last 10 years buying back their own stock. clearly they have enough money to pay s $15 per hour. >> underpaid workers across the country have taken there by director to the presidential candidates to drive home that they are a voting bloc that cannot be avoided. >> as we gather tonight in this theater, just outside and across the country, picketers are gathering as well. they are demanding an immediate hike in the minimum wage to $15 per hour. are you sympathetic to the protesters' cause since a $15 wage works out to about $31 -- $31,000 per year? >> taxes too high, wages too high, we are

martin luther king junior. decadesn dormant for and god bless you all, we are going to go out fighting tonight. all for being here. let's see what the election results bring. no matter what it rings, fight on. -- what it brings, fight on. [applause] ♪ >> one more note on the florida house primary race -- longtime congresswoman corrine brown, ranking member on the veterans affairs committee lost yesterday to state senator al lawson. a 22 counting federal indictment and a redrawn district. she becomes the fifth house incumbent to lose their primary this year. losing to state senator al lawson. coming up on c-span, we have more road to the white house coverage coming up. about half an hour from now, we will take you to cincinnati to hear hillary clinton speaking to the national convention of the american legion. donald trump will address the group tomorrow. later, discussion on the boundaries of free speech on college campuses. that is at 4:00 eastern. donald trump today will be speaking about his immigration policy, laying out making more clear, his immigration proposals tonig

its height nearly 6 million members in 40 countries. in the words of dr. martin luther king jr., he was the tost man on a mass scale give millions of negroes a sense of dignity and destiny and make the negro feel that he was somebody. because of these achievements he was viewed as a threat to the u.s. government. before martin luther king would be targeted. hoover taught methods on how to disrupt and destroy garvey's civil rights movement. 23, aided by judicial proceedings that have largely been condemned as unfounded and politically and racially motivated, garvey was convicted of mail fraud and sentenced to five years in federal prison. in recognition of the unsettling president calvin coolidge commuted the sentence in november, 1927 but deported him from the country. the posthumous pardon petition now filed on his behalf seeks to exonerate him from the stigma of his conviction following the commutation of his sentence efforts to fully clear his name have been ongoing on the part of the u.s. congress, civil andnizations, city, state international groups. more than 90 years after th

the agents of that transformational change. [cheers] as martin luther king said, the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. art is bending through us right now. we are the actors in something that is much her than us -- much bigger than us as we struggle towards healing together. [cheers] that arc of justice is moving through us as we mobilize, to ensure that every black live matters and we end violence policing and broken windows policing as the bristol five and the millions march new york city just achieved by moving out the leadership of their police department that had overseen broken windows policing. they are turning the tide in this crisis of racist policing. that arc of justice is moving through us as we sit in and as fracking down and stop pipelines and fossil fuel trains and coal and export terminals and all manner of poisonous fossil fuels and nuclear infrastructure. [cheers] that arc of justice is moving through us in philadelphia, like i have never seen, in the city of brotherly love, it was overrun by love in the streets, even inside the d

strengthen us for the days ahead. dr. martin luther king. if you have not read it lately, read dr. king's a letter from a birmingham jail. it should be mandatory reading. in the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. are we not the friends of those being persecuted of all denominations, all faiths around the world? "silence in the face of evil is evil itself." he said not to speak is to speak. not to act is to ask. i think we should speak, i think we should act. i am going to show you two very short films. one, nigeria, the other, a broader basis. [applause] [indiscernible] distrust breeds. violence goes unpunished. since 2010, boko haram has targeted schools. they murdered their prisoners. [indiscernible] the same number of people in los angeles which are simply displaced. in 2014, boko haram kidnapped 276 girls from school and almost all are still missing. they has caused 1500 schools to close and 950,000 children are without an education, which perpetuates the cycle of violence and threatens the future. [indiscernible] >> all of this has creat

much. you are definitely a visionary, and with martin luther king i can relate to you, i can relate to both of you together. there are a lot of states and countries we are coming from that have diversity. are visas that have to be filled out, a lottery system that has to be gone through. and so while everybody is coming to the u.s., there is a medical , there are people who are seeking to get their phd's, their doctorates, a lot of educational advances. there are a lot of educational advances people are having. while people are coming here, they are seeing that they are -- sorry, trans letting multiple linkages. translating multiple languages. >> for example, becoming a physician or engineer. the individuals from africa can achieve their dreams, come to the u.s. and have limitless objects of educational tracts they can take and get good work, but not depend on the profession to do it for them. and the government can be an aid in that process to help them excel in a profession. and also, the second part of my question. there are many objectives and goals. but right now, as you are co

assassination of two very prominent public figures, martin luther king and robert kennedy. robert kennedy in the midst of a .rimary in the midst o in the case of king, you had riots on a level that you just could not see today. i'm not saying that there is not some turmoil in the country at this time, but i don't think you have a sense of the kind of national turmoil that you had in the year of 68. host: independent line in california, mark, you are on. caller: speaking with the first racistabout it was a part of his speaking, it was and the college students, make --that if he could that he could really quiet the college students down, so it was a racist thing, and it was a way -- from the college students from getting out there and expressing their rights as far as protesting. guest: that is a good point. college students were definitely a part of those people that did not hit the silent majority. they were the ones who were loud, they were the ones who were in nixon's mine, tearing down campuses and protesting the vietnam war. that was a crucial element of what richard nixon did

ahead. .r. martin luther king if you have not read it lately, dr.r. king's "-- read king's a letter from a birmingham jail. in the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. of thoset the friends being persecuted of all denominations, all face around the world -- all faiths around the world? evil isin the face of evil itself. he said not to speak is to speak. not to act is to ask. i think we should speak, i think we should act. verygoing to show you two short films. one, nigeria, the other, a broader basis. [applause] [indiscernible] >> religious minorities rose. this trust breeds. violence goes unpunished. since 2010, boko haram has targeted schools. they make their prisoners -- murdered. the same number of people in los angeles which are simply displaced. 276 girls kidnapped from school and almost all are still missing. it has caused 1500 schools to close and 950,000 children are without an education, which perpetuates the cycle of violence and threatens the future. [indiscernible] >> all of this has created one of the all of this has creat

transformational change. s martin luther king said: the arc of the moral universe is ong, but it bends towards justice. i know that arc is bending in us through us right now. something actors in that is much bigger than us, as struggle for justice, peace, together., and healing [cheering and applause] justice is moving hrough us as we mobilize, to ensure that every black life end violence, policing, and broken-windows olicing, as the bristol five and the millions march new york city just achieved by moving out the leadership of their police department that had overseen windows policing. hey are turning the tide in this crisis of racist policing. justice is moving and as us as we sit in, we lock down, to stop fracking fossil fuel bomb and coal and lmg export all manner of erminal fossil fuels and nuclear infrastructure. justice was moving through us in philadelphia, like seen.e never in the city of brotherly love, by love, in the streets, even inside of the dnc, the sanders campaign broke away from that corrupt and dnc.-stabbing [cheering] bernie-or-bust movement that is here today, and i want

was before rosa parks sat in the front of the bus and martin luther king junior became famous. as i mentioned earlier, when now basically passn a civil rights act and people all over the country could vote. i and most other leaders in our country , only provided for equality of treatment for all of our people. eriodprovided a brief pr relaxation. what we've seen lately, mostly what police against african americans and so forth, we still have a long way to go. understand we have had a relapse. and nowadays, there seems to be another stirring of a deeper commitment by country that can no longer limit ourselves but see what can be done about the rights for everyone. the gays and lesbians and so forth as well as people with different races. we are in a constant struggle in the united states of america to light and begin life rather nations to follow and for ourselves to benefit as well. it has been a long, continuous struggle that still goes on. >> at the center for civil them in right, we're looking [indiscernible] i'm an interesting story. when i worked for you as an election monitor

tape recordings of martin luther king jr. while he examines pictures of civil rights demonstrators. those he can identify are circled and filed. shelton explains why. >> we have a division called the kbi, klan bureau of investigation, and i might add to this that it is effective. we uncover a lot of evidence that other departments might miss. [end video clip] brian: klan bureau of investigation? what was it about? does it still exist? laurence: not anymore. thanks to the success of the lawsuit, it does not exist anymore. they have used the lawsuit against other large white supremacist organizations. there are not too many of them now. the book points out that robert shelton was close to george wallace, the governor of alabama. brian: what got you interested in the story? laurence: in 1967, i was a graduate student at the university of oregon. in international affairs and i was bored to death. i took a course in magazine writing. i talked my way, with a grant from the wallace foundation, i talked my way into george wallace's plane. brian: which wallace? laurence: the readers digest

, we had a feeling of relief to finally resolve the race issue because of martin luther king junior and people like that, but now that we have got to do see it again -- we have begun to see it again that are african-american neighbors and others as well are treated unfairly, do not get as good of an education, jobs, job s, and they are put into jail and they are discriminated against. and they are beginning to realize that as well. i think if we listen to what is going on and try to take steps to correct the problems that we face, then we will be much better off as a nation. it takes a lot of political courage to admit that we have made some mistakes and now let's correct them. america has always had the right and ability, maybe it would take too long to say, ok we have made a mistake, let's correct it. mr. clinton: let's give him a hand, jimmy carter. thank you. [applause] [applause] mr. clinton: i had no idea he was going to say that at the end, but i read several months ago somebody was making fun of me in one of these internet articles because they acknowledge all of the things

agents of that transformational change. as martin luther king said, the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice. i know that arc is bending in us and through us right now. we're the actors in something that is much bigger than us. s we struggle for justice, peace, community, and healing together. cheers and applause] that arc of justice is moving through us as we mobilize to ensure that every black life tters, and we end violence policing and broken windows policing, as the frisco five and the millions march new york city just achieved by moving out the leadership of their police departments that had overseen broken windows policing. they are turning the tide in this crisis of racist policing. that arc of justice is moving through us as we sit in and as we look down to stop tracking -- fracking pipelines and fossil fuel bomb trains and coal and lng export terminals and all manner of poisonous fossil fuel nd nuclear infrastructure. that arc of justice was moving through us in philadelphia like i have never seen. in the city of brotherly love, it was overrun by l

the agents of that transformational change. as martin luther king said, the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. i know it is bending through us, right now. we are the actors in something that is much her than us -- much anger than not -- much bigger than us. [applause and cheering] that arc of justice is moving through us as we mobilize, to ensure that every black live matters and we end violence policing and broken windows policing as the bristol five and the millions march new york city just achieved by moving out the leadership of their police department that had overseen broken windows policing. they are turning the tide in this crisis of racist policing. that arc of justice is moving through us as we sit in and as we locked down -- and cold and export terminals and all manner of poisonous fossil fuels and nuclear infrastructure. that arc of justice is moving through us in philadelphia, like i have never seen, in the city of brotherly love, it was overrun by love in the streets, even inside the dnc as the sanders campaign broke away from that corrupt a

. president be no black if it was not from civil rights movement. and dr.ot from malcolm martin luther king. names.e without the civil rights movement started with marcus garvey. a man met my father in england and who proclaimed himself --. he talked about the negro -- rising in kenya. people stood around and listen -- they memorize the articles and then ran off into the villages. to repeat the stories. had rise to -- they rise the kenyan nation. but there was no kenyan nation created by the father, the burning spear. there could have been no kenyan national who camp to the united states to study. do you hear where i'm coming from? we stand on the shoulders of those who have gone before. this is a teaching moment. there is a lot on his plate. it's a moment when decisions have to be made. directions have to be change. reevaluated.to be not just words. it demands action. that is why we are here today. that's why we think it is the right time to join the dots between 1916 and 2016. the system has not changed in order to give the black boy and the black girl their place in american society. we think tha