And we turn now to someone who stood alongside Jesse Jackson during some of the most consequential chapters of the modern civil rights movement.

Ambassador Andrew Young is a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, former mayor of Atlanta, and longtime lieutenant to the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

I spoke with him earlier today and asked him about Reverend Jackson's

role in pushing for civil rights. Well, Reverend Jackson was the second or third generation,

but in a way, he follows best under the generation of students coming out of the 60s and the sit-ins.

And he was a member of the group in North Carolina, A&T, Agriculture and Technical College, that started the sit-ins.

This was five years after Martin Luther King started the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

It was this background and the fact that he grew up in the Negro church that prepared him

for leadership.

His preaching and speaking was very much like that of Martin Luther King,

so much so that he often quiet, in the early days, tried to imitate Martin Luther King.

As he matured in the movement, tried to imitate Martin Luther King.

As he matured in the movement,

he developed his own style of speaking,

which was a combination of the black church and the movement of students.

Well, let me ask you more about that, because his 1984 and 1988 campaigns

reshaped politics, reshape the Democratic Party, reshaped coalition politics.

What did his voice as a preacher allow him to do, allow him to say that a traditional politician

could not?

Well, it was not so much that it allowed him to say anything different. He was basically saying the same thing that Martin Luther King and his father

was saying years before, and even Martin's grandfather.

But Jesse mixed it with the modern jazz of the 60s,

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