August 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr.

leads 250,000 on the March on Washington.

His marvelous speech that every American knows at the Lincoln Memorial talking about "I have a dream".

America is telling the world that blacks and whites have come together to say we are ready to make the next step toward equality

and the young, black preacher talked about a dream that connected back to the American dream.

What he did was hold a mirror up to the face of all Americans

and said, hey, it's been a couple hundred years

now let's do what the Declaration of Independence actually said.

We hold these truth to be self-evident,

that all men are created equal.

The promise of 1776 back on the agenda.

Now this is a culmination of everybody together saying this.. this is our moment.

This is the time for us.

Whites looked inside themselves and said you know what,why should black kids go to second-rate schools?

That's not good for the country.

That's not good for what we are as people.

That's when the tipping point was reached.

A year after the March on Washington,

the Civil Rights Act is passed through Congress.

Voting rights extended.

Racial discrimination outlawed, segregation ended.

America's problem with race does not disappear.

But the way is paved for an African American to reach the White House.

To be able to inspire our kids,

let them know that they have such greatness out there

they can be anything they want to be,and we can mean that.

Fighting segregation and discrimination by law

and we're changing hearts and minds.

We're moving out of that and memories tend to fade.

But not for me.

I'll never forget.