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PART 1: By the late 70?s most of us thought that the darkest days of racial hatred and violence were well behind us. We were premature in our optimism. On November 3, 1979, a nine car caravan of armed Ku Klux Klan and Nazis shot 15 demonstrators at an anti-Klan rally, killing 5 people as local TV news cameras rolled. The shooters than left the scene without any police interference. Despite the fact that all the perpetrators were clearly identifiable on film, 2, all white juries acquitted the shooters because the victims were identified as members of the Communist Workers Party. Kathy Golden speaks with Signe Waller, survivor and widow of murdered Dr. James Michael Waller. PART 2: Dr. King implored our nation ?to live out the true meaning of its creed, that all men are created equal?. Unfortunately in everyday America, not all of us embrace that principal. While slavery died 200 years ago, at the current pace, college graduation parity between blacks and whites will not be reached until 2075. Dr. King brought us part of the way? the rest we have to do ourselves. Kathy Golden talks with Roger Gottlieb on his latest anthology, devoted to those who have inspired social progress and then we hear from the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.