00:00Sixty years after Martin Luther King Jr. led a rally protesting housing discrimination
00:06and segregated schools in Boston, thousands of people show up at the same site to honor
00:12and reflect on the historic event.
00:15The rally is taking place at the Boston Common near the site of a 20-foot high memorial to
00:20racial equity.
00:21We are coming together to say we are not done yet.
00:25We are not where we need to be.
00:28We are a much better society than the behavior that we're exhibiting right now.
00:33And the final thing is this kind of scenario is not sustainable.
00:38Dad would say we must learn non-violence or we may face non-existence.
00:43The original protest rally in 1965 brought the civil rights movement to the North East,
00:48a place King knew very well from his time earning a doctorate in theology from Boston University
00:53and serving as assistant minister at the city's 12th Baptist Church.
00:56Their narrative is that people who are not qualified are having an opportunity.
01:01But the fact of the matter is this whole country, and this is not about a collective guilt,
01:07by the way, it's about collective responsibility, this whole country is as prosperous as it is
01:13because for 250 years you had free labor, totally free labor.
01:19The Boston rally happened after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was won and signed by President Lyndon Johnson,
01:26and it was a month ahead of the enactment of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 signed in August.
01:33THE CREDI ending
01:34CREDIT
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