- So where are we goin'? - You know I can't tell you. - Come on man, tell me. - We're on a journey. I got movies here, if
you wanna watch anything. The movies are down there. - You literally have two copies of Frozen. - Yes. Two copies, not just one. - Two.
- You never know, you never know, when
you might need another. ♪ Here we go ♪ ♪ Here we go ♪ ♪ Here we go ♪ ♪ Here we go ♪ ♪ Here we go ♪ ♪ Here we go ♪ ♪ Here we go ♪ ♪ Here we go ♪ ♪ Here we go ♪ ♪ Here we go ♪ ♪ Here we go ♪ - [Announcer] Please welcome
Kid President, Robby Novak. - I wasn't here 50 years ago, but I hope to be in the next 50 years. - [Martin Luther King,
Jr.] Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy, now is the time. Make Selma, Alabama, a better city, now's the time. - From the early days of Civil
War to the Civil Rights Era, Selma, Alabama has been a key
place in American history, and that's where we're headed. - [Voiceover] In March of 1965 thousands of Americans
from all over the country gathered in Selma, Alabama. They marched 54 miles to the
state capitol in Montgomery to dramatize the extent of
racial injustice in that state, and throughout all the deep south. - One of the people we're gonna be meeting is a woman by the name of Miss Joanne. She marched with Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr., John Lewis, lots of other
brave men and women, and yet she was only 11 years old. Hey, look, there's the bridge. - [Robby] Wow. So, you mean there are
kids who cross this bridge every single day? - [Brad] Yeah.
- [Robby] That's insane. - [Brad] And you're gonna
get to meet some of them. - [Robby] So, I got to
meet a group of kids who called themselves The Hope Dealers. They're dedicated to making
their community better by creating music videos, ♪ Don't let your loved
ones down all right ♪ - [Robby] even doing
their own radio shows. They're always making a difference, no matter what they're doing. - What you got? I was a bit rusty on the drum
kit, but I played it anyway. Which was a bad idea. And Miss Jerria, well, - What's up? - She showed me up. The kids and Ms. Jerria, they are always up to something good. - Bathroom, this literally
used to be a bathroom. Me and the kids gutted it out. - [Robby] It was inspiring
to see all the things that they were doing. They showed us around their community, welcomed me and Brad in like family. Before this, everything I
had ever seen about Selma has been like in an old photo,
always related to the past. But these kids showed me where they live. Now, it's their home. It's a place where they can be theirselves and just have fun. Yeah, I probably shouldn't
have gotten in that swing. It took me way too long to get out. Everywhere we went, there
were people doing something to make their town better for kids. The Edmundite Mission let us
tag along with a group of kids, getting a sneak peak of their
brand new community center. - Well, we're just
basically havin' some fun. - [Robby] This entire place
is a work in progress, and soon it will be a place
for kids and families of Selma to dream big dreams. - [Kids] One, two, three, community! - When it came time to
meet Miss Joanne Bland, I started getting a little nervous. But as soon as I met her, she
put me at ease real quick. - [Brad] So Robby, you just
focus on havin' a conversation with your friend here and
ask her anything you want. - [Brad] Well, within reason. - Yeah, within reason.
- Okay. What was it for you like when you walked, when you marched when you're so young? Like, what was the experience? - [Joanne] Well, I really did not know what we were marching for,
when I first started marching. There's a drug store
on Broad street called Carter's drugstore,
it's still there today. But in the '60s it had a lunch counter. And I wanted to sit at the lunch counter, but my grandmother said I couldn't. She said, "Colored children," that was what we were called then, "can't sit at the counter." But it didn't stop me from
wanting to sit at that counter. Every time I pass by, I see
those white kids spinning around on those stools, licking
those ice cream cones, and I'd wish it was me. One day we were on the Board Street, in front of Carter's drugstore and my grandmother was
talkin' to one of her friends and I was doin' what I
always do, peepin' at window. This particular day,
my grandmother noticed, and she leaned over my shoulder, and she pointed through
the window, to the counter, she said, "When we get our
freedom, you could do that too." I became a freedom fighter that day. I wanted to sit at that counter. - You were 11 years old when you marched. - It was exciting. People were there who did look like us, white people were there, and
Latino people were there, Jewish people were there. At one time, I thought every
kid in the United States was doin' the same thing that
I was doin' here in Salem, marchin', even going to
jail, seein' these people. So, I didn't have
everything to compare it to, so I thought it was
happening all over the world. - [Robby] What can we do today? - All young people ask me that. I do know you should be doing somethin', I don't know how to make you a roadmap to get to where we need to go. I think all young people, including you, should imagine what
type of world you want. Just the people you love,
just your circle of love, to live in, and then you
should try to work toward that. - We all have a duty, to make sure the world keeps dreaming of better things. Keep dreaming, keep
dreaming, keep dreaming. - You're the ones, you're the ones we have been waiting for. It's every generation's responsibility to make the world a better
place than they found it. - [Robby] Man, we've
been in some wild places. - [Brad] How did it feel to be surrounded by so much history? - [Robby] Very surreal,
kinda like in your mind you can't believe, you're like,
"This really happened here." - At the same time though,
you were surrounded by like, kids doing stuff now. - Well, it is very important to learn things from the past but it's really important
that we do things now, in the future. - [Brad] I think that is the
secret, let the past teach us so we can do something right now. Are we there yet, huh? Are we? We got stuff to do. Do you wanna watch Frozen? - [Robby] Sure. - [Brad] I got 2 copies. - [Robby] All right. - [Brad] Yeah.
