there were his close aides from the last to ralph abernathy and on the far right, bernard. they had taken eastern airlines flight 81 from atlanta there had been a bomb threat was directed to king. passengers on the plane were evacuated, dogs brought in. it turned out to be a false alarm, but the plane arrived late in memphis and those were not only on a wednesday morning. as unsettling as that might have been, the arrival this was his third visit to memphis in 1968. he addressed the city's garbage workers that were frozen out of a bitter strike. he was back ten days later. also in support of the workers barely had the march begun a small number had broken away from the march. they had broken windows, looted stores, the police responded with a in the aftermath, it was king who is being condemned for the riot by politicians and newspaper editorialists. they were alleging that he had lost command of his nonviolent movement. some people even say that he was inciting violence. so, he decided he had to return to memphis and leave another march, which would be nonviole nonviolent.

ralph abernathy became the face of the overall director of. but he had a certain strength but he didn't have king's strength so it faded as a force in american life. then there was a period where there was so much political upheaval in the country over the war other causes, the democratic convention and you may remember how chaotic that was. the short answer is there was in progress on the civil rights for some years after that. it took a while before there was any progress into some people would say it didn't reserve in the same way without king as the leader. >> i have not yet read the book that i wonder in hearing your comments about the challenges in your reading of the successors, his note in the archive and came bacthinkingback to what had hapt five years earlier with the march on washington how successful that was and how it had been deemed impossible. to his records reveal anything about the relationship between sclc and the unions, a. philip randolph and the team of people that put together the march and anything about the later relat

so, i read about you, reverend abernathy and rosa parks.ept saying to myself, if the people in montgomery can organize and stand up, we, too, can stand up and organize. so that with a little college about eight or ten miles from my home called troy state. now known as troy university. didn't admit black students. so i got a chance to get an application and apply to go to this school. i never heard a word from the school. so i wrote a letter to dr. martin luther king jr. and told him i needed his help because i had been inspired by rosa parks. dr. king wrote me back and sent me a round trip greyhound bus ticket and invited me to come to montgomery to meet with him. how can i forget it. fred gray, you still look the same way, so young. met me at the greyhound bus station and drove me to the first baptist church, reverend abernathy, and ushered me into the church. and i saw martin luther king jr. and reverend abernathy standing behind the desk. and dr. king said, are you the boy from troy? are you john lewis? and i said, dr. king, i'm john rob

and reverend abernathy standing behind the desk, and dr. king said, are you the boy from troy?ohn lewis? and i said, dr. king, i am john robert lewis. i gave him my whole name. but he still called me the boy from troy. [laughter] john: and over the years, i had an opportunity to meet rosa parks and to talk with her. she was so wonderful, so kind, and she kept saying to each one of us, you too can do something. she inspired us to participate in the sit-ins, to study the way of peace, the way of love, to study the philosophy and discipline of nonviolence. again, i want to thank you. madame librarian, i want to thank you for what you are doing to help educate and sensitize another generation to stand up, to be brave, to be bold, to be courageous, and for people to see something that is not right, not fair, not just, do something. we cannot afford to be quiet. we live at a time when must save -- we must save our democracy. save our planet. we must do what rosa parks did. when there comes a time to sit in, sit down, do it. time to stand up, stand up. time to speak up, speak up and s

mixed reactions from antigovernment protests in baghdad and the killing of qassam $7.00 money and abernathy $100.00 will eliminate the corrupt parties which are destroying iraq. we're on america and iran should solve their problems outside iraq we don't want them to solve it inside iraq because this will not serve us we into risk with do not celebrate the killing of soon the money or anyone else because this will not serve us at the end of the day. of course we have correspondents covering the story from all angles gave elizondo is in washington d.c. dosage of ari said to have on but 1st let's speak to some wonderful to live in baghdad so mona just bring us up to date with all of the reaction that we found so far. well the prime minister's office has just issued a statement which is the 1st time we've heard from the government since this drug took place in the early morning hours and he condemned these assess nations in the strongest terms possible calling them a violation of the rules of engagement of u.s. presence here in iraq and a breach of iraqi sovereignty it's interesting that he cal

abernathy, let me say another thing. this book is aimed too, it's a loyal critique. an inside critique of the ngos, the un. it's not a savage critique. it sang how can we do better as you just did. >> the 80 pound gorilla is if organized correctly, these ngos could be much more effective. they are doing amazing stuff. i saw with my own two eyes. imagine what they could be doing if they were coordinated in a more effective way. >> in general, to the many church related, synagogue, mosque related groups, what would be your message? >> my message would be, although your message - - mission is maybe different from public education and health. i'm talking those two areas largely. although we have to talk about agriculture and food security. even though your mission is different, it can be complementary to the goals of the public health and public education and public water systems. cholera is a waterborne disease and there we are for 25 years. it's been spread right along that river system. we should feel, we didn't do everything right. what we did do right is built infra

marco makes it all started in birmingham alabama in the spring of 1963 king and another pastor ralph abernathy were filmed being arrested for organizing an unauthorized demonstration the arrest was part of a strategy that king would use in future campaigns it was important that the cameras captured the unrest in birmingham was a city that embodied a southern racism where whites like to repeat the governor's slogan segregation now segregation tomorrow segregation forever can you believe that alabama would not and could not polisi it seth and that what he wanted to do was to show that so that the federal government would have to become involved and their body make a family a law that would over rod anything that any of that jim crow laws that's in birmingham alabama in 1963 it was in prison where martin luther king wrote the text that encapsulated his struggle the letter from birmingham jail king wrote the purpose of a direct action program is to create a situation so. crisis pact that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation. president kennedy intervened and king was soon free and a few

the main suspect, anne sacoolas, then returned to the us , 20—year—old ambulance driver billy abernathy—hope a 20—year—old, was also incredibly caring. he was an incredible person and i am so lucky to be able to say that he was my little brother because nobody else gets the privilege of doing that. an ambulance driver and care worker, he had always tried to help people and a conversation with his father about loose change, spawned an idea. one that his family has turned into reality in his name. the billy chip. so, this is how it works, the businesses supporting the scheme have a in the window. simply come in, a coffee please. and a billy chip as well. one of those will cost you £2. you can then hand it to a homeless person. they can bring it back and exchange it for a cup of tea or coffee or a sandwich or whatever. it is a brilliant, simple but effective idea. we can tell people about billy who never met him but also for his friends, i think it is really important, but people who never met him, it is to let them know that somebody who yes, is no longer here, he cared that much about them an