is we we talk about the nonviolent civil rights movement without acknowledging the incredible violence that was part of that movement. it wasn't violence at the hands of protesters, right? it was violence by police. it was violence by white supremacist. it was violence by people who wanted to suppress the cause of justice. and the power of nonviolence was that people responded with nonviolence to extreme violence to potentially life-threatening violence right to violence that could may more imprison you right people died in the course of this struggle. and so i underestimated what it would have meant to be a civil rights activist in the first place and second of all now i had this new idea. what if i actually would have been a black panther it's hard for me to imagine myself carrying a gun, but i can definitely imagine myself feeding kids. i can definitely imagine myself. helping to run a health clinic, right? and so it opened up this question. so the first exploration of this that i did was my debut novel the rock and the river. which is a novel about a teen boy who's trying

civil rights activist and right there marching with dr. king and linking arms and singing "we shall over come" and only later i realized how simplistic we talk about the civil rights movement is. we talk about without acknowledging the incredible violence that was part of that movement. it wasn't violence at the hands of protesters, right. it was violence by police and violence by white supremtists and people who wanted to suppress the cause of justice and the power of nonviolence was that people responded with nonviolence to extreme violence, to potentially life-threatening violence, right. to violence that could maim or imprison you. people died in the course of the struggle. so, i underestimated what it would have been to be a civil rights activist in the first place and then i had the idea, what if i was a black panther. hard for me considering myself carrying a gun and feeding kids and i can imagine myself helping to run a health clinic. it opened up this question. so, the first exploration of this i did was my debut novel "the rock and the river" which is a novel about a teen boy who is trying to decide about his place in the movement. that was me trying to decide wh

a worrier of the civil rights movement, sitting on a park bench, trying not to cry. the next day this photo ran in all of the major newspapers in the united states, made the front page of every newspaper in the united states. in that image what happened was that millions of white people were forced to confront, for only a moment, the confrontation, the contrast that the civil rights movement wanted them to see. not the individual one, though that's obviously terrifying, but the systemic one, the one between a community that could produce a woman, a young woman of such grace and dignity, and the social system that could take ordinary people like the people you are seeing in this picture and twist and turn them into thugs, in defense of the indefensible. over the course of the 1960s, the civil rights movement would twist and turn all kinds of complicated ways and i try to trace some of those in my book, but it would never have more power than when it built this extraordinary contrast that elizabeth eckford brought out on a glistening september day in 1957. four years l

civil rights history. that was also true of the civil rights movement, you know? the southern christian leadership conference was, you know, pastures and things like that, but you had also sncc, disturb nonviolent coordinating committee. you had set up [inaudible] judges, much kids were arrested and put in jail because in march for civil rights. and you know, so it is a very easy i think to point to somebody like doctor king and say, well, you know, he was a leader. he was 39 when he was killed. so the majority of his ministry and the integrity of his ministry to place in his 20s and his 13th. he was considerably young upstart by society. people did not respect him. the establishment did not respect him. and certainly black people there, but he was not revered in his day in the way that he is revered today. we have written that into our history to try to sort of manipulate the way we feel about nonviolent protest. i think nonviolent protest is part of it. and it's really amazing to study both the civil rights movement and the black bar movement to see that it was

petitioned the governments for civil rights and job opportunities and as a people who increasingly insistence and militants. as many of you know and appreciate. the civil rights movement culminated in riots urban rebellions and civil disturbances and major cities throughout the nation. in response the government ultimately passed far-reaching civil rights legislation, especially voting rights, and i'm pointing here the boating rights bill. a act of 1965 which was so important for black people. black people were made to be full citizens under the laws of the land. well the government targeted for reform racially segregated workplaces local neighborhoods schools universities. and cities more generally. which thereby set the stage for the historic period of racial integration and incorporation. that has resulted in the subsequent growth of the black middle class the largest in american history. however the wider society is reception of black people. was decidedly mixed. to be sure many white people, encouraged and promoted and racially quality and progress but many others powerfully resisted these changes. which they feared abrogated their own rights and presumed privile

i told you that sign claims that this building is ground zero of the civil rights movement, isn't it a little bit odd? that the building marked as ground zero of the civil rights movement would be allowed to fall into ruin. it didn't just happen that way it was intentional and this is the story. of how ground zero of the movement fell into ruin although you can't tell by looking. in 2011 the town of money. that's the name of the town. it's a weird town money, mississippi the town of money in 2011 was the beneficiary of a 206,000 mississippi civil rights historical sites grant the grant went not to bryant's grocery and meat market the only site in town with the civil rights history. rather it went to ben roy's service station. a long shuttered house and canopy style gulf station that sits precisely 67 feet south of the crumbling grocery because bryants was crumbling. and because ben roy's had a covered portico the grant application reasoned. the gas station had become a default lecture site from which tourists could gaze at the grocery and learn their civil rights history the applicati

but they were also limits to what the civil rights movement could do. and among them was the segregation that embraced little rock high in 57 and that ran around eddy street all the time, that the cahills were there. and it's true that estelle griswold and those who followed shattered, opened those restrictions of the polo creole world that was so important to the cahills. but the issues they opened clearly haven't died. we live with them still as it is so clear in what's coming from the supreme court in the next few months. and it's true that the anti war movements -- and i insist there were more than one we've met -- did have an enormous impact on the war in vietnam, even as it caused far too many lives. but the larger framework of america's place in the world wasn't fundamentally transformed. and that's the story of the 60s i'm trying to tell. a story of the 60s this complex, that intimate, that's personal. that's terrifying and inspiring and deeply, profoundly ambiguous. 's story of the 1960s for our own troubled time. thank you so much for spending

- it shows you just how complex and really diseased the relationship was between the black civil rights movement and the women's rights movement. >> but then three years after the march on washington she plays a key role, in a very important moment in american feminist history. >> she does. she introduced -- she was on the president's commission on civil rights, and specifically on the issue of feminism, and especially the equal rights amendment. and she was -- well, i forget exactly what happened, but abouty friedan reached out to her. i know. it was piece in the "new york times" when she basically threatened action against -- on the behalf of feminism or women's rights and betty friedan reached out and talked to her. and pauline described to her what she thought of as an naacp for women. and betty picked up that mantle, went with it. pauley helped her, introduced her to the network at the president's commission ask. the rest is history, except that a couple of years later, puline murray quit nano, national organization of women which she helped start because of the lack of diversity. she said

, it shows you just how complex and really diseased the relationship was between the black civil rights movement and the women's rights movement. >> but three years after the march on washington, she plays a key role in a very important moment in american feminist hs history. >> she does. she was on the president's commission on civil rights and, specifically, on the issue issue of feminism, especially equal rights amendment. and she was -- i forget exactly what happened, but bthty reached out to her. i know, it was a piece in "the new york times" when she basically threatened on behalf of feminism or women's rights. and they reached out and talked to her. and they droibed to her what she thought of as an for wimp. and betty picked up that mantle and went with it. paulie helped her, introduced her to her network at the president's commission, and the rest is history except that a couple years later, she quit the national organization of women which she helped to start because of welcome of diversity. it was just not the organization she wished to help. of diversit. it was just not the organizati

civil rights demonstrations. it was endorsed by booker t. washington in 1905 and later adopted by the naacp becoming a rallying cry of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s. the song represents patriotism in a best possible sense. it commands us to be dedicated to our nation and honor the sacrifices of the generations before us by continuing to work toward the full promise of freedom for all americans. i want to thank congressman clyburn for bringing forth this bill and i also welcome all of our witnesses. i look forward to their testimony and i yield back the balance of my time. >> thank you, mr. nadler. john if mr. jordan is present or not. do you want to be recognized for your opening statement? if mr. jordan's not with us, we'll go right into the opening remarks that i'll make. thank you. we welcome our witnesses on both panels. thank you for participating there today's hearing. i warn you we have votes around 9:30 or so and might have to break up your testimony and come back. please note each of your witness statements will be entered into the record. if you say anything that is false, you could be subject to penalties under se

civil rights. it is endorsed by booker t. washington in 1905, later adopted by the naacp becoming a rallying cry during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s. lift every voice and sing as a reminder of how far up we have come as a country. while simultaneously calling upon to continue our work for a better future. the song represents patriotism and the best possible sense. commands us to be dedicated to her nation and to honor the sacrifices of the generations that came before us continuing to work for the promise of freedom for all americans pretty want to thank congressman clyburn for bringing forth this bill and i also welcome all our witnesses. look forward to the testimony and i yield back. >> thank you mr. nadler. on the offense or drawing is present or not mr. jordan do you want recognized for opening statement? >> and mr. george is not with us will go right into the opening remarks i will make, thank you. we welcome our witnesses about panels, thank them for participating in today's hearing. we both run at 9:30 or so we may have to break up during your testimony and come back. i will now introduce each of the w

his murder became a catalyst for the civil rights movement. >> i know many of the civil rights leaderst 100 times, hate never goes away. a few, all have to, not .rl200 other tiynbills e itir 120 ago. >>> the "associated press" says queen elizabeth shrugged off health issues to attend a memorial service for her late husband, prince philip. the 95-year-old monarc son, prince andrew. prince philip died last april, but only 30 people were allowed at the funeral due to strict pandemic rules. about 1,800 people attended yesterday's service. >>> and "usa today" says the new -- the nfl is changing its rules to ensure that each team gets the ball in a playoff game goes into overtime. the new rule which begins there year will only be used in the playoffs, not the regular season. the change is partly a result of playoff game in january. the kansas city chiefs scored a touchdown on their first overtime possession to defeat the buffalo bills without the bills even getting a chance to score. >>> still to come, mystery text messages. a warning from verizon if you receive a text from your own phone. >

his mother's courage to show the world what was done to him energized the civil rights movement.ter rosa parks was arrested on a bus in montgomery. her statue sits in my office. she said i thought of emmett hill and i couldn't go back. doctor king often preached about the voices of emmett hill screaming and the brushes of the mississippi. to the family, we remain and all of your courage to find purpose through your pain, to find purpose through your pain but the law isn't just about to the past it's about the present and future as well. from the bullets to countless other acts of violence and victims known and unknown the same hatred that drove them to hang a noose brought that mob carrying torches out of the field in charlottesville a few years ago. it's not an old problem, it's a persistent problem and i know you've heard me say a number of times, hate never goes away. it only hides to give just a little bit of oxygen then it comes back. what stops it is all of us, not a few but all of us. people like ida b wells established 100 years ago in response to terror across the countr

path to the white house began before she could even walk marching with her parents in the civil rights movementity for all. she is a partner to joe especially on issues like voting rights and is proud to be the first but not the last. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, the vice president. [applause] [laughter] i just said that to make you laugh. the vice president of the united states. [applause] [cheering] >> thank you, doctor biden. please have a seat everybody. good afternoon. it's so good to me to so many folks. it's nice to be together under one roof and of course an honor to be here with our incredible president, joe biden. [applause] and the first second gentlemen of the united states. it's wonderful to be you this afternoon joined by the esteemed members of the congressional caucus. and as a former member, i know firsthand are truly the conscience not only of the congress but of our country. [applause] thank you to the clergy that continue to lift the spirits and conditions of so many in the country and to the community organizers who work day in and day out to make a difference in the li

does your appointment have any meaning to the civil rights movement? i think that the people with whom i work, within the civil rights movement, over the last 20 years, are pleased to hear of the presidents appointment. i think for black americans, all over the country, of course, it is another indication that america is about to make good on its promise of equal opportunity, for all americans. >> president lyndon b. johnson, nominated to the judiciary in 1966. at the end of the summer, she became the first black woman to serve on the federal bench, in the history of the united states. but, by that point, judge baker motley had decades of experience, litigating civil rights cases. while working is the only woman lawyer, of the naacp legal defense fund. the protegee, of thurgood marshall, who went on to become the first black supreme court justice. she wrote the original complaint of brown versus board of education. she represented clients, like martin was there came to an, year after his arrest in birmingham, in 1963. and more than 1000 students who ski

and i gave a speech about black women in the civil rights movement. f the speech, if not all of the speech, was focused on african american women, their contributions to the civil rights movement, unsung contributions in many cases, and then some of the more recent african american women who have made claims, who have done things in our society. one slide was of ms. -- a journalist, who you say, made that statement, and i called it provocative. it is not something that i've studied. it doesn't come up in my work. i was mentioning it because it was, at least at that time, something that was talked about and well known to the students that i was speaking to at the law school. >> so are you aware that since the 1619 project came out that it has been roundly refuted by very respected historians including gordon wood of brown university, including james mcpherson of princeton university. mcpherson called it a, quote, very unbalanced one-sided account which lacks content and perspective and, indeed, telephones so thoroughly refuted that "the new york times"

their civil rights movement in the north was modeled in some measure upon the civil rights movement here in america. i knew john hume very well. he was a great man at a great moment. i've known gerry adams and other who participated in these very difficult events. but out of this tumultuous time came something else. and that was the good friday agreement. we are now coming upon the 25th anniversary of that agreement and america is a guarantor of the good friday agreement. successive presidents of the united states, democrat and republican, have all embraced the good friday agreement as the way forward. the path. understanding as well that the success of the good friday agreement came ability because everybody had to give up something. so the public of ireland gave up articles 2 and 3 of its constitution, which laid claim to the six counties of the north, and the united kingdom gave up the border. which was a huge issue. strand two of the good friday agreement reinforced the idea of a growing relationship between dublin and belfast. so let me lay this out in perspective in the time i have

year they have a martin luther king day speaker, and i gave a speech about black women in the civil rights movementf the speech, if not all of the speech, was focused on african american women, their contributions to the civil rights movement, unsung contributions in many cases, and then some of the more recent african american women who have made claims, who have done things in our society. one slide was of ms. -- a journalist, as you say, who made that statement, and i called it provocative. it is not something that i have studied. it doesn't come up in my work. i was mentioning it because it was, at least at that time, something that was talked about and well known to the students that i was speaking to at the law school. >> so, are you aware that since the 1619 project came out, that it has been roundly refuted by very respected historians, including gordon wood of brown university, including james mcpherson of princeton university. mcpherson called it a very unbalanced account which lacks content and sperpt, indeed, it was so thoroughly refuted that the "new york times" quietly altered the dig

emmett's mutilated body was brought back to chicago his mother made a decision to help launch the civil rights movement an open-casket funeral for her son. >> when he said do you want me to retouch the body, i said no, let the people see what i have seen. i want the world to see what is going on in mississippi. in this great old united states of america. >> thank god she had the courage to show the world what happened to her child. we would not be here today had not been for the pain and the suffering and the strength and the courage of the entire family. showed the world. >> a murder trial would follow ending in acquittal, a devastating loss for till's family and mamie till would spend the rest of her life fighting for justice. ali gordon helping to carry on her cousin relentless pursuit of justice. >> we ended up fighting for emmitt and in years to follow would learn of other black lives that had been taken. >> i got to the point i had to turn my head because it was all over the news. you don't have to hang a person from a tree. a lynching is a lynching. >> some people look at it and say lynching hap

, i find myself going back to baldwin and he he was also a writer who was engaged with the civil rights movement engaged with the civil rights of his time. i i try to be so he's inspires me on so many levels, but i'm a nonfiction writer and he's for me among the best of nonfiction writers who were commenting on what i'm often coming what i permanently commenting on was the circumstances of race racial the african-american experience of trying to gain full personhood, right? so i never get enough of him, right? yeah. i've been i've been rereading baldwin myself, and he's one that you got to turn off the tv you can't be distracted by other things because of the language in his you want to absorb it a little bit. right, and that's why i read you know for me reading is kind of healing at the end of the day no devices other than my kindle right, but there's something there's nothing more intimate to me than reading. and and trying to get what an author's saying it's like the author is speaking just to me when i'm doing it, right? so ah, and then you know, i don't know. i don't know why i'm so enamore

1000 sewer lynched, as mothers encouraged to show the world what was done to him energize a civil rights movementater rosa parks was arrested on the bus in montgomery. her statue sits in my office. she said i thought of emmett till and i could not go back. i thought of emmett till and i could not go back. doctor king often preached about the crying voices of little emmett till screaming in the rushes of the mississippi. the tilt family, we remain in awe of your courage to find purpose through your pain. to find purpose through your pain. but the law is not just about the past it's about the present. and our future as well. from the bullets in the back of ahmaud are ready to countless other acts of violence. countless victims known and unknown the same racial hatred that drove the mob to hang a noose brought that mob carrying torches out of the hills of charlottesville just a few years ago. racial hate is not an old problem. it is a persistent problem. a persistent problem. and i know many of the civil rights leader have heard me say it 100 times hate never goes away, it only hides. hides under th

his sentence was rendered was like that movement, the social justice warrior movement, the civil rights movementhe death throes or jesse jackson, al sharpton, the naacp, because i'm just not sure how you attach your credibility to that guy, and he makes a clown out of himself and you, i don't know how you survived that. >> tucker: what's interesting is they left to his defense, he is not oppressed, he is the opposite of a price on a highly paid actor and a famous guy. you know, it's just interest income they identify with him. the most powerful people in our society pose as victims, here is one and they are all over it, backing up his story. what does it tell you? >> well, the judge pointed it out i thought brilliantly. he took 30-40 minutes unpacking his decision here, and basically -- like, jussie smollett comes from privilege. a great family that supported him tremendously, and that is why -- this is inexcusable. this isn't a crime of premeditation. i mean, this isn't a crime of opportunity, this is a crime of premeditation. you actually thought about this, and given your family background an

it took truants youth to meet with civil rights movement leaders who fought to have access to educationg a young person to understand that helped the young people realize this was an important thing to give up. what we find is that young people who are truanted have a really high homicide rate in our city, which is a sad statistic. we want to change that. >> coming from a community we are black and brown. i don't reach out to other people. i don't think they feel the same way. >> i had the great opportunity to work on prison reform issues and criminal justice reform issues. we created a program at san quentin where we brought district opportunities to lifers and talk about how we are all impacted by the criminal justice system. we brought over 40 elected das to san quentin for the situation. now we are inviting the police department. our formerly incarcerated group born out of this programming asked for the opportunity to work on a project where we could bring the men in blue on the outside to come speak to the men on blue inside to start the healing dialogue around how the criminal jus

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some of this country's most tumultuous years through the civil rights movement vietnam and political assassinations. you'll hear her in her own voice how she experienced that time featuring footage from c-span's video library. wednesday january the 8th state of the union was one of those days that you have the feeling that everything that's gone before the last two weeks at any rate was leading up to working up to so much sir. hillary have felt when he had last reads the top of mount everest because it seemed like to me we had i had a long long ropes dressed up a high how mountain and day by day. we'd been pulling and hauling and this finally was the day that we either came we came to the top fell on our face are stood up and planted the flag. i arrived a little bit early and took my seat in the front row flanked on the right by lucy beans and then how glad i was to have roberta vincent next and then uncle huffman baines his wife and angel cifa. that was a sort of well. i know that mrs. johnson would have liked that. there on the other side. i had susan. and helen and nobody watched

an impotus to civil rights, they were saying hey these americans talk about freedom and democracy, but look what's happening in montgomery, alabama, so in effect the civil rights movement was able to use the term freedom, real freedom so we don't look so bad abroad. >> thank you for the correction, i'm not a historian -- but about the many issues they were grappling with, the fight over the second bank of the united states is i think a really telling episode of to your argument of what the democratic party stood for early on this form of early capitalism. start with the question, why king andrew. >> why get rid of the second bank of the united states? >> the second bank of the united states was a very powerful institution. we don't have anything like it. it was a central bank, like the central banks in europe, but it was run by a private board of executives, chosen pretty much by nicolas bidel, head of the bank. >> it wasn't a government entity? >> no, it was chartered by the government, government did not run it and as i said before it picked winners and losers, decide to invest in, you know, this shoe factory in massachusetts, which means you won't invest in a differ

. >>> vice president kamala harris helped commemorate a dark day during the civil rights movement on sunday she visited selma, alabama to commemorate bloody sunday that's when blacks were attacked by police crossing the bridge demonstrating for voting rights. she met with civil rights leaders, gave a powerful speech, and joined in on a symbolic march across the edmund pettus bridge. >>> and a new mexico man returns home he spent more than 500 days in the hospital battling covid-19 according to an affiliate he was hospitalized back in 2020 and was sedated and put on a ventilator he lost use of his hands, arms, and legs since then he's catching up on everything he missed including meeting his grandson who is now 1 years old. i hope a lot of face-to-face hugs and time spent together. >> quite a journey. >>> still to come, the brooding cape crusaders soar again. >>> gas prices soaring in the u.s., t stbuju how bad will it get? cnbc's steve sedgwick breaks it all down for us. ♪ahhh!♪ wooo! vaporize sore throat pain with truth is... i've never really known how to care for my hardwood floors