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THAT MOMENT THAT IS JUST
INDELIBLE THERE.
THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON NOW
BEING REPEATED.
ONE OF THE PEOPLE WHO IS
COMMEMORATING THE OCCASION IS A
LONG TIME ACTIVIST HERSELF.
A DELEGATE IN THE U.S. HOUSE OF
REPRESENTIVITIES FOR THE
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AND SOMEONE
WHO WAS AN ORGANIZER FOR THAT
1963 MARCH ON WASHINGTON.
ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON JOINING US
LIVE FROM WASHINGTON.
DELEGATE HOLMES NORTON, GOOD TO
SEE YOU.
YOU LOOK SO COOL ON A DAY THAT'S
SO HOT.
>> GOOD TO BE OUT HERE 50 YEARS
LATER, I HAVE TO TELL YOU THAT.
>> WHAT IS THAT MOMENT LIKE TO
SEE MARTIN LUTHER KING III THERE
COMMEMORATING 50 YEARS AFTER HIS
DAD TOOK TO THE STAGE THERE,
RESOGNATING NOT JUST IN
WASHINGTON, D.C.
NOT JUST NATIONALLY, BUT
GLOBALLY?
>> MARTIN LUTHER KING WOULD HAVE
BEEN PROUD OF MARTIN LUTHER KING
III, THE SAME THEMES AND
RECOGNIZED WHOSE SON HE WAS OUT
THERE.
UP THERE JUST NOW.
>> DOES IT SEEM LIKE IT'S BEEN
50 YEARS?
YOU WERE ONE OF THE ORGANIZERS
OF THAT MARCH, 1963.
WHAT ARE YOU REFLECTING ON AS
YOU LOOK OUT THERE ON THE GROUND
AND SEE SO MANY PEOPLE?
DOES IT TAKE YOU BACK TO THAT
DAY, 50 YEARS AGO?
>> WELL, IT DOES.
I WAS A LAW STUDENT.
ON THE STAFF OF THE -- AND I
CAME UP FROM MISSISSIPPI WHERE I
HAD BEEN WORKING WITH THE
STUDENT NONVIOLENT COORDINATION
COMMITTEE IN THE MISSISSIPPI
DELTA, AND I WAS STANDING RIGHT
UP THERE NEAR THE LINCOLN STATUE
WHERE THE PEOPLE ARE GATHERED
ALL ON THE STEPS THEN.
I GUESS POST 9/11, YOU CAN'T
HAVE THEM SO CLOSE, AND I
REMEMBER THAT THE BEST VIEW WAS
NOT WHEN I WOULD COME DOWN AND
LOOK UP.
THE BEST VIEW WAS WHEN I WOULD
LOOK OUT AND SEE THAT THE MARCH,
WHICH HAD A LOT OF DOUBT HANGING
OVER IT, WOULD PEOPLE REALLY
COME, BECAUSE THERE HAD NEVER
BEEN A MASS MARCH ON WASHINGTON
BEFORE FOR ANY CAUSE.
WOULD THEY COME?
HOW WOULD THEY BE RECEIVED AND
HERE, I COULD NOT SEE THE END OF
THE PEOPLE.
MARCH BY ANY MEASURE HAD BEEN A
SUCCESS, MORE PEOPLE FOR ANY
CAUSE HAD GATHERED ON THIS SPACE
50 YEARS AGO.
>> WE THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE
TIME NOW TO HELP US REMEMBER