. >> ♪ we are not afraid >> reporter: it was there that dr. martin luther king jr. delivered his i have a dream speech. bob mckinzey took a look back at that speech. >> reporter: 250,000 people descended on washington, d.c., coming from everywhere by bus, train, car and thousands had walked. they marched to the mall where the reverend martin luther king jr. already renowned as a fearless leader was to make the speech of his life. >> i have a dream. >> reporter: the reverend cecil william of dwight memorial church was there. >> i just said, something exciting is really taking place today. because there were just hoards of people. i mean people coming from every direction. and i was so proud to be a proud of that. it was, it was i had never seen that many people before in my life. so it was the form and the movement and the energy and the commitment and spirit of the people. >> martin luther king knew that his speech had to reach out beyond the immediate crowd to touch the hearts of people everywhere. so after detailing the suffering and injustice that people endured

>> the decision that dr. martin luther king jr. made was his decision. it's in keeping with the movement. it was in keeping then. we all must decide for ourselves. what we can do and what we cannot do. dr. king had something in atlanta. he didn't want to violate his probation. on the other hand from the freedom riders said to him we were we are all on probation. we've all been arrested and jailed but we're going to do it. many of the freedom riders were very disappointed that dr. king didn't board the bus in atlanta, after the violence in montgomery and made a decision to continue to ride that he did join us. a great theme in montgomery that we continued to ride with dr. king shaking the hand of one of the freedom riders with his arm hanging out of the window, the freedom riders. dr. king just was shaking his hand as the bus is pulling off. >> woodruff: going forward, did it weaken the movement? did it strengthen the movement? what do you say? >> the freedom ride, the drama of the freedom ride strengthened the movement. it took the movement out of the ur

the dr. martin luther king jr. park was created from a long abandoned park. featuring a sports field for football and soccer. a competitive track. picnic areas and new landscaping. >> frankly, it was a police that detracted from the neighborhood. it didn't contribute to the neighborhood. and so we knew, the residents knew this was one place we had to take care of. not just for the future but to make -- not just for the future of the kids playing but the future of the neighborhood. >> the effort to restore the park began in 2002 and it is not over yet. they still need to raise more funds to finish the project. >> couldn't tell from those pictures. it was a blustery day. >> it was. over 30 miles per hour in parts of the bay area today. now the cold front headed in toward the bay area. starting to see some of the clouds moving in and they are moving in our skies right now. check it out. got plenty of clouds across the bay area. really mostly cloudy now. the breeze is continuing to below in spots and we got a cold front diving into the bay area that will bring so

martin luther king jr. for my parents, it was pearl harbor. there have been other moments of national celebration and crisis. the landing on the moon, the explosion of the challenger space shuttle, the inauguration of america's first african american president. and there will be many more. but before this most recent memory becomes a memory -- this recent moment becomes a memory and because all of you have had such a big part in it, let's take a moment to reflect on the legacy of 9/11 beyond the ongoing war on terror and what it means for the future of our democracy. i was elected mayor just two months after the attacks on 9/11 when smoke was still rising from the rubble at ground zero. back then the conventional wisdom was that it would take new york decades to recover, if it ever would. people thought businesses would flee and there would be a mass exodus to spoibs and that crime would return. none of that happened. and i will tell you why. our city, in fact our whole country did not give into fear. we came together as never before and did e

martin luther king, jr. spread out over three volumes and just completed a we think soon to be an hbo series, but even without that, it's a really monumental life achievement piece of journalistic biography. i happen to know a lot of other things about taylor. i could go on and on. for instance, nobody may know this, but he and i had the same high school american history teacher in different high schools at different times in the south. it was a man named emmett wright, j.r. setting us out off on our course in life. we eached worked for the monthly at our journalism school, and i've been reading taylor's work my whole life, and there's a lot of it that's wonderful besides the mon monumental king biography. one other thing i'll note about taylor that is a very rare happenstance in the life of a journalist is that in his younger days, he had a thankless political organizing assignment which is running the george mcgovern presidential campaign in texas. [laughter] he was codirector and the other codirector was

dr. martin luther king jr. letter from the birmingham utter jeal this year with his private to his wife who in 1960 rights from a state prison. >> this is from martin luther jim came to be cut to his wife to read october 26, 1960. hello, darling. today i find myself a long way from you and the children. i am at the state prison in reads bill which is about 230 miles away from atlanta. they picked me up from the dekalb jail at around 4:00 a.m. this morning. i know this whole experience is very difficult for you. especially in the conditions of your pregnancy. but as i said to you yesterday, this is the cross we must bear for the freedom of our people. so i urge you to be strong in a safe and this will in turn strengthen me. i can assure you it is extremely difficult to think of being away from you, my little yokie and mardy for four months by ask god for the power of endurance i have the faith to believe that this excess of suffering and this will in some little way serve to make atlanta a better city to mcgeorg

martin luther king jr. president obama is a politician. dr. king was a prophetic leader, different responsibilities, different roles. people say he is not the black president. the reality is he is the black president, the hispanic president, he is the rural, the city, he is a social conservative president, different constituents look at him to get different things, do have african-americans saying, look, got 95% of the black vote should had be a return on our investments, hispanics said the same thing. i believe when you begin to make it personal, when you begin to talk about not getting inauguration ticket, the problem there is people begin to turn you off and the issue should be if you want to be critical of the president, a matter of tone but also be specific about policy, not person. >> all right, guys, unfortunately, not got leave it there, not going to leave this story, a source of some discussion. >> i have dr. west on my sunday morning show on tv one. >> fascinating to watch. thanks for coming. >>> president obama's critics say he is a

martin luther king jr. >> be careful what you tweet and be careful what you read. that's what happened. that went totally viral. it was a martin luther king jr. quote that went lib this. i mourn the loss of thousands of precious, precious lives but i will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. that was not really a quote by martin loout thir ki martin loout luther king jr. he said, the enemy quote, "in the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends." it is not clear how that went so viral and some say maybe it was an accidental cut and paste. either way, don't believe everything you tweet. >> sound advice. zain verjee, live in london. up more. still ahead, first, president obama wants to roll back billions of dollars in tax breaks that the oil industry gets. will it affect the prices at the pump? we will go to the new york stock exchange to find find out next. [ woman ] jogging stroller. you've been stuck in the garage while i took refuge from the pollen that made me sneeze. but with 24-hour zyrtec®, i get prescr

martin luther king jr., right? he's the president of the united states. >> that's for sure. >> aren't we expecting a little too much of him? >> i expect a lot from barack obama not because he's black but because he's the president and because black people voted for him. so i think he owes black people a whole bunch. the question, though, is what strategic approach do we take? i think the approach is to challenge president obama but for us to organize and drag him back to the left. other groups dragged him to the right. we saw him push to the right on offshore drilling, free trade, wall street reform. let's drag him back to the left on issues that matter around unemployment. that's what we need to do. does barack obama have a responsibility? absolutely. but i would love to see those of us who are critiquing president obama organize and form movements that force him the other way. that's the real work that has to be done. >> just talking about those critiques, something else is interesting that's going on. every time

martin luther king, jr. for my parents' generation, it was pearl harbor. for my grandparents, armistice day. there have been other moments of celebration and crisis. the landing on the moon, the explosion of the challenger space shuttle, the inauguration of america's first african american president. [cheers] and there will be many more. but before thisthis recent moment becomes a memory, and because all of you have had such a big part in it, let's take a moment to reflect on the legacy of 9/11 beyond the ongoing war on terror and what it means for the future of our democracy. i was elected mayor just two months after the attacks of 9/11, when smoke was still rising from the rubble of ground zero. back then, the conventional wisdom was that it would take new york decades to recover, if it ever would. people thought businesses would flee, and that there would be a mass exodus to the suburbs and that crime would return. none of that happened, and i will tell you why. our city, in fact our whole country, did not give into fear. we came together as never befor

a lot of people would put you in that same vein of jackie robinson, martin luther king jr., ambassador young and others. you still hold those guys to a higher esteem. i do. i told them much higher than i do. they were great in more ways than one. not only because of what they stood for but what they stood for to bring to the civil rights table for other blacks to chew on and ride on. >> what is the state of baseball these days? how is it doing today? is it its popularity waning at all? >> it could be a lot better. we don't have as many african-americans playing baseball as we used to have. any time we have an economic struggle in this country, we, we, the blacks, are going to feel the pinch quicker than anybody and baseball is a very expensive game. >> kids can turn on tv and see that immediate, instant fame or whatnot from basketball or football. >> i don't believe baseball has sold itself as much in the black area as it should have. somehow football was done a terrific job and basketball another terrific job and selling its sports in the areas. you look at it deep enough if that youn

martin luther king jr. would present aretha an award in front of 12,000 people. they declared it aretha franklin day. >> they did but when dr. king walked on the stage, the rafters would shake. ♪ sing about what you're trying to do to me ♪ > aretha wrote her own songs too. like "think" and "day dreaming" way as inspired by the lead singer of the temptations dennis edwards. >> i was day dreaming about him, yes. >> reporter: i think he said he made a mistake is not marrying you. >> i said you sure did. too late now, buddy. too late. >> reporter: you would have married him. >> i would have married dennis in a heartbeat. ♪ loving him a little bit more each day ♪ ♪ when i hear him say >> reporter: from what i read, he said he was kind of intimidated by your... the whole aretha aura. >> really? >> reporter: do you think you're intimidating? >> i could be. i could be. i've seen that a little bit with some men. but the real men step up to the plate. >> reporter: but then that wall goes up again. how is your love life these days? >> my love life is all right. it