in those days, 1962, you knew that a bomb had gone off in birmingham.my father turned the car around and started driving and my mother said, where are you going? he said i'm going to the police. she said they probably set it off, what do you mean you are going to the police? because there was no such thing as protection for black families from the authorities and birmingham. eugene bull connor was the -- of jim crow in the segregation and he was going to enforce it by whatever means necessary. now, this reached its culmination in september of 1963 after a very violent summer of water hoses and marxists and so forth. dr. king had realized that they weren't getting the response that they wanted so there had been something called the children's march and may of 1953 where these children had really bent sand right into the teeth of paul connor's enhancement. on september 1963, september 151963 we had just gotten to church at my father's church and there was again a loud thud. everybody assumed it was in our community but it had been 2 miles away and pretty

because bombs were going off in birmingham all the time. i was driving back from any grandparents house and a loud explosion driving up to the house, and in 1962 you knew a bomb went off in birmingham. my father turned the car around and started driving. he said, i'm going to the police. she said, # they probably set it off. what do you mean you're going to the police? because there was no such thing as protection for black families from the authorities in birmingham. eugene bull o'connor was the gist of seg gracious, and he was going to enforce it by whatever means necessary. now, when this reached its culmination was in september of 1963 after a violent summer of water hoses and marchs and so forth. dr. king had realized that they were not getting the response that they wanted, and so then it was the children's march in may of 1963 where these children had been sent right into the teeth of o'connor's henchmen, but on september 1963, september 15, we had just gotten to church, at my father's church, and there was, again, a loud thud, and e

but it also affected by people in birmingham in a negative way. it took birmingham a long time. it is still, still trying to overcome a lot of those cars of having been known as bombingham, and having been known as the most racist city in the united states. it finally has overcome some of the impetus of things that matter, rather than birmingham because part of its reputation combining, the fact is that racism had a very negative effect. jim crow had a very negative effect on the white unity, too. and there were a few whites who are trying to break out of that. i tell the story of a doctor that my mother had a very bad bronchial infection. my father had a mentor who was the white director of guidance counselor for the schools in alabama, in birmingham. and my father went to mr. sheffield, and he said, mr. sheffield, my wife has a terrible infection, can you recommend a doctor? he recommended doctor carmichael, a white doctor. the first time we showed up, i was seven, we went and and the waiting room for blacks was this horrible kind of paint peeling above the pharmacy, step stra

king spent a lot of time in birmingham. you talk about the fact that your father did not march with dr. king, although they were in birmingham. tell me more about that decision. >> my father did not, although people like my father, middle- class of birmingham, did many things in support of the civil- rights movement. both teachers, when the students when not in the streets to march, the birmingham school board wanted the teachers to turn over their names so i could keep them from graduating, and teachers falsified the names. our family also participated in the boycott of downtown birmingham stores and held food drives for families who are cut off by the public safety commission. but my father told my mother, at least, and i overheard him, he said, if somebody comes after me with a billy club, i will try to kill him. then my daughter will be an orphan. i simply cannot imagine my father meeting violence with nonviolence. it was not in his character. tavis: what did you take from that as a child? i ask against the backdrop of

in deep, that is what was going on in birmingham 1962 and 1963. before the end birmingham was segregated and incidence from time to a dime but the thing now wanted to show but as a family is still give up every day go to school, church and have piano and ballet so it is not if segregation was part of your life every day and people would lead normal lives but in 1962 and 1963 it was shattered and birmingham was called bombingham and they were going off all the time. are remember one night driving back from my grandparents and a loud explosion as we drove up to the house. you knew a bomb had gone off part of my father turned the car around and started driving and my mother said where you going? he said i am going to the police and she said they probably set off. there was no such thing as protection for black families. eugene was going to enforce segregation by whatever means necessary. this reached the culmination september 1963 after a violent summer of marches marches, dr. king had realized there were not getting the response they wanted so they

i see that have when i two back to birmingham. what you had was blacks, but you also had a certain kind of white right. people who could lead left. mean who meant left. people were the most ambitious left. when i go back to the birmingham that i used to know as the kid, which was the vibrant black business district, it's decimated now. you talk about the progress, moving forward, good things happening. under segregations, doctors and ditch diggers lived down the street. they sent their kids to the same schools. they lived in the community that might not have been rich, but it was rich in social capital. what happened is when people could move, you have the diaspora added. it took something from that community. black businesses suffers. institutions like harper high school. if you were black and lived in birmingham, you went to parker high. it was the only high school. it was so large if you went to birmingham, they so postcards with the picture on it. parker is a shelf itself. when my father went to parker, all of the teachers, al

that i didn't see or experience in birmingham. what i realized when these stories started to spill out from my family was that this sort of easy integration that i took for granted was not always present in even their community. my family was blockbustered so when my father left chicago, that they were the first person to buy a home on their particular block. and the people that i knew -- parents of my friends were very chilly to my parents when they first moved in. most of the families got up and left when we moved into the neighborhood. and i only learned this from my father later on because again she was protecting me. but, you know, the stories that i share with people and talking about this is i realized strong they were and sometimes they used humor to help by to get in a situation that could have crushed them. when everybody moved out and they were trying to sell the houses next to the black family, my mother just decided well, you know, i can sit by and i could cry or i could have a little fun with this. [laughter] >> and

i went back to birmingham every summer. so in that sense they may have been slowly writing this book and collecting stories. and my father did me an enormous favor by making sure that i knew his birmingham. i do know is the place where he was also shot by a white police officer, but i spent a lot of time in birmingham and that's it makes his journey forward so surprising to me in so many ways. i knew that they move to chicago ultimately. they all settled in chicago. he has five brothers. they were all incredibly handsome man, which will see if you read the actual books, there's pictures inside. i knew they move to chicago looking for better word. you will see how handsomely on these pictures because they used to take pictures of a common experience that even though they were in blue-collar jobs, my father and his brothers were with the postal workers are teachers. they would go to the portrait studio address of them looked like the mickelson brothers or john kerry more and send us pictures back home and they would essential

but i spent a lot of time in birmingham. that's what makes his journey forth so surprising to me in so many ways. i knew that they moved to chicago ultimately. they all settled in chicago. he had five brothers. they were all incredibly hansom men. which you will see if you read the actual book. there's pictures inside. i knew they moved to chicago looking for better work. you will see how handsome they are in the pictures. they use to take pictures. even though they worked in blue collar jobs, my father and brothers or teachers, they would go to the portrait studio and dress up and look like the nickelson brothers and send those pictures back home. those pictures would say we are doing already. they serve as magnets. people went through the picture and say they are doing okay. i want to get up north. >> little did they know? >> right. what i didn't know, here's your postal uniform. which was good work. >> hard work. >> hard work but good work. and it's honorable work. they weren't just running to something, but from somethin

he had to get out of birmingham jury quickly after that. and the rest of the brothers had to get out of birmingham. they couldn't stay carrying the north main at that point became a bit of a risk. there were consequences though they didn't understand when they moved north of only understood in the riding of this book. the greater opportunity when they moved north. they had jobs, they could use the g.i. bill of more than ways they could not in the deep south. but also, when the six sons moved north, even though they came back and visited from time to time, they left behind parents who continued to age, whose homes continued to age, whose health continued to deteriorate. and what i realized, the letters that i discovered and the interviews i did, that my grandparents who gave birth to the six strong hand some strapping sons were left alone in the later part of their life because their sons had moved north and felt like they could no longer come back. so the more you understand this migration, you see the benefits but you see that there were a

gary edwards in birmingham, alabama.nd in coming weeks, you're going to see another show originating from birmingham on a very related topic. we're going to meet dr. jan rowe, who teaches occupational therapy at the university of alabama at birmingham--a woman, again, with that great sixth sense for special needs children, who can speak about it very eloquently. here's an excerpt. - what i've seen over the years is that children of all ages and all abilities are much more welcoming now of children with disabilities, because it's kind of commonplace. they're used to seeing the kids with disabilities in their school. when i was in high school, we only saw those kids with disabilities at lunch, or you only saw them if there was some type of auditorium presentation. but, you know, now kids are pretty used to seeing them at all times of day, every single day of the week. that said, there still is a lot of bullying. there still is a lot of... kind of taunting, especially of children with disabilities who have a certain level o

. >> reporter: we are at the uab hospital that's university of alabama at birmingham. certainly among the nation's most modern medical comet plexes, but it is dealing with a weight problem. it's the patients. also, a good number of the hospital staffite. it is, to be blunt, the neighborhood that uab is in. >> how often do the bigger patients come in? >> regularly. >> being in alabama, regularly. >> reporter: hospital ceo michael walldrum calls it the obesity belt and alabama is part of it. >> being in the middle of the obesity belt for the country, and living through this epidemic, we have a need to provide more services so, just -- >> reporter: because you have more obese patients. >> more patients. >> reporter: like diane warren who gave birth to arianna a few days ago. it wasn't a few days ago. at this point, it had been six days? >> reporter: that's long to stay compared to most women. is that again related to your size? >> we had to take extra precautions with me and everything they did. >> reporter: debra was diane's doctor. >> we were concerned she was developin

or birmingham and selma, alabama, in the early 1960's police and bus drivers were notorious for their racist and sexist practices. or mississippi during the 1964 freedom summer, where black women activists who were arrested were often beaten and sexually abused while they were in prison. all fees major campaigns had an organized resistance to sexualized violence and political appeal to defend black womenhood to read this to the literature that focuses on the world of black and white women and the operation of gender in the movement, and now the little or no role in most histories of the african-american freedom struggle, even as we focus on a racist violence against black and white men, like emmitt help and good men and chain. all of these provide examples of racist brutality that we ignore what happened to black women. in order to truly understand the civil rights movement we need to understand these stories. we need to understand this history. the sexual exploitation of black women of course had its root in slavery. slave owners still can access to a woman's body strength and their

and i interviewed a number of other women in birmingham and a handful of people and montgomery. i use a lot of images that i found in the archives with historians may have asked the question and so we talked about what happened to them but they never really followed up. i looked at court documents, and tried to get court proceedings, trial transcripts, stuff like that. i got a lot of material in a tallahassee case in that regard. a lot of the cases i write about in mississippi, the transcript went missing or were thrown away or destroyed after so many years. i talked to old turns on some of these cases. i have not spoken to any of the assailants, although a couple of them are still in prison for other crimes. that they committed after the release. but i was sort of afraid to talk to them. so it was a lot of digging. through the archives, court records, old newspapers, and a talking to a lot of people on the ground. >> did the white wives get upset enough with her husband that that would stop the rates, or not? >> not that i found. though it wasn't a focus of my inquiries. i do t

look at birmingham, alabama, that's a beautiful day. 75 degrees. and it's warm out ahead of this storm system. even st. louis will be 75 degrees today. alba bishgky, you're on the cold side of the storm, the backside. that's why it's only 52. weekend forecasts are coming up, veronica. >> a gorgeous weekend here in new york. i'm looking forward to it. thank you, bill. >>> cisco tumbles, disney jumps the gun and computer history for sale. your early morning business headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, will the box office freight train, denzel washington, ride a run away freight train to number one this weekend? >>> a possible super bowl preview and embarrassing soccer goal and the heat continue to struggle. you're watching "early today." >> good morning, and welcome back to "early today." i'm veronica de la cruz. here are some of your top headlines this morning. senator lisa murkowski's campaign is crying foul in the alaska ballot count, accusing rival joe miller of properly challenging write-in ballots to drag out the heated senate race there. a

it was a birmingham public library, but of course it was only for white people. the one black library that existed was rundown, very few books and i tell the story because i first entered the doors of this library in 1959, and i can remember how it felt to actually walk into a a real library, because although i had used the library in birmingham, it was very lacking in resources. it was broken down. finally they built the new one one -- speak years later. >> yeah, many many years later. so i think as we talk about the democratic impulse of libraries and the accessibility of libraries, it is also important to talk about those places where books have a hard time penetrating and your example of the texas state correctional system is one. just before the event, i had an opportunity to look at some of the items from the archival collections here and i saw a wonderful collection of a periodical that was actually published by prisoners at riker's island from i think 1939 to 1940 something, and i was thinking about you know, what was required in order to be able to do th

. >> popular -- >> went down to birmingham to support dr. king.arry belafonte, the jay-z of his day marched with doctor king. today i'd have to march with jay-z. >> let me pick up with the institutions. one the critiques is it is no longer independent, it's been co-opted. >> in my church new york city politician speaks on sunday morning. there's churches that fling their door open if the mayor is running or governor is running, that he gets center stage. in our church, if they don't stay for the whole service, i won't even call their name. >> we are in a position to independently decide what political positions we will take, what political arrangements we will have. to me that speaks to the independence of the african-american church. >> everybody speaks to the power of black preachers. >> i'm going to be a cynic for a minute. >> that's why we have the professor on the panel. >> what we have to be very clear about the way many churches function. they don't cultivate a kind of democratic space for every day ordinary folk to engage in the kinds of e

recover their domestic forms part to defeat the bolton of the weekend weekend while in the other game birmingham travel to stoke his manager tony pulis one seventy table of referees he believes his side have suffered from some bad decisions recently on things his idea would help. or i'd like to see . this system put in place where every club in the premiership actually has one vote every year on the performances of referees you know those three clubs promoted three clubs relegated at the end of the season you know the premier league clubs put them out c m three referees three we've been deemed to be the poorest referees actually drop the premiership go to the championship three press referees in the championship come up so they are a responsibility that not only to the big clubs but also to the smaller clubs because the smaller clubs will get the same vote as the bigger clubs interesting idea now let's catch up with action from the states where the pittsburgh steelers have moved level with baltimore at the top of the a.f.c. north and after holding off a fierce fight back from divisional rival ci

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after trashing sunderland five you won in the northeast darby on the midlands aston villa against birmingham and dick oldest. in tennis kim clijsters has won the season ending w t a championships for a third time after beating world number one caroline wozniacki in dover and earning one and a half million dollars in the process clijsters powered through the opening set to take it six three does not see then one the next two levels the much watched the twenty seven year old belgian came out on top in the decider this is the point that lead to match point is dragging first me ask me to the corners of the court and then match point was much more straightforward twice as ending the year is right time for this you know it's nice to end the year like this was a good match for both a really good time as i think we really brought out the best of each other so it was that. very tough tough battle so some good tennis there and you don't have to do to win by them you know caroline is a very talented player and still very young so i'm going to she's got a great future ahead of her and in the meantime ca

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at the top of the table was cut to just goal difference after they were started one of them at birmingham with the seventeenth when it went up meanwhile manchester united went second and remain unbeaten after it to no victory at home to nine man wigan gold treats ever after and have a hand as you describe both ahead of the eighty fifth minute winner as taught them came from two goals down two in st so it's also for the first time in seventeen years the gunners though stick to third bolton went forth with a five one home drubbing of newcastle liverpool heaped more misery on a rock bottom west town of the three and i went on field to penalties helped stoke win it sliding west brom and blackpool beat second bottom wolves two one. it has also been another big weekend in russian football where eight games were played some more times that across the country on saturday in the penultimate fixtures of the season the pick of the action moscow secured a second place finish in the premier league after coming from a goal down to complete a thrilling three one victory over spot even snow ski reports.

i was talking to folks, it's amazing howbaltimorons are flying to birmingham and they're going to fly to atlanta. >> -- going to drive to atlanta. well, there's a definitely presence. when you hear that they're waiting to hear the o.! they can tell the hometown crowd -- you can always hear them. and deep as well. and oh! >> well, yeah. >> let's look at the forecast for the day. and we're talking about. well, i say, tomorrow, it will be a late game -- it's a perfect excuse to blow off friday and put it on cruise and smooth and make it a three day weekend and show up and don't let them know you're really not there. and 57 degrees is the high and 35 tonight and as a matter of fact, i'll tell you right now, 56 degrees is the high tomorrow. and friday, you're looking at an echo. ron matz, this is a beautiful story. matt ryan came out the same year as flacco. i think he was drafted at like 4th or 5th and joe was what? 16th. >> >> yeah, something like that. >> yeah, he's a good qb. i'm taking off friday, by the way. >> you've taken off several fridays. >> i'm taking off, too. it will only be

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. >> why do you make a pit stop in birmingham, alabama. >> i left my glaucoma medication on the plane>> this is a road film with a surge of slapstick and absurdity. >> this is my daddy. >> why are your fathers ashes in a car with you?. >> because he's dead, peter. >> there is a bit of poinance thrown in. >> this is man made? >> not correct. grand canyon, not hoover dam. >> i know not the hoover dam that. was built by the pilgrims. >> and throw in a little mayhem. this is a funny movie but not enough of them. it's a great pairing of a cup couple months it's a road well traveled. i'm afraid too many wrong turns. it's a result of what happened in 1984. that is the case with due date. i don't remember a lot of it. i'll have to give it half a bucket. we'll see you on the aisle. >> there is higher hopes for this. >> we've got high hopes for forecast. >> yes. >> let's go back to sandhya patel. >> goitsing to be fabulous tlchl is a full bucket. for weekend if traveling nice-looking weather. cooler towards weekend. 67 friday. and saturday, slight chance of showers. by sunday, there is real rai

the has not been many delays in birmingham. this is at the broadway. the right-hand lane remains blocked as you can see and as we first put the shot up 10-15 minutes ago they said this accident will be gone quickly but in fact we do see at to attract backing up here said they may be about to clear this accident. the good news is that it is so clear in the traffic it has not traded much of a back up said the location of this accident in the south won a one where the matter back up is this is the first time this morning that we have seen is that the broadway. at the bay bridge plaza we see no back up. this is a quick picture and again this morning it most of the traffic is held up on interstate 80 west bound. >> this just in. we have pictures come in and out of seattle where they are dealing with serious weather, snow and ice. this is a live picture from the chopper and the road ways are being cleared by workers. it is not easy, but there is a good number of traffic accidents and flight delays and in fact there was a 747 cargo plane from jfk it that skid

although i had used the library in birmingham, it was very lacking in resources. it was broken down. finally they built a new one. >> years later. >> many years later. as we talk about the democratic impulse of libraries and the accessibility of libraries, it is also important to talk about those places where books have a hard time penetrating. your example of this, the texas state correctional system is one. just before the event, i had an opportunity to look at some of the items from the archival collection here. and i saw a wonderful collection of a periodical that was published by prisoners from 1939 to 1940 something. i was thinking, what was required in order to be able to do this. this is for those of you who don't remember a period when we didn't have xeroxes. i looked at it and i said this is mimeographed. is that the word? and the prisoners who put this together and the books they had to read in order to put this literary publication together was quite astounding so i would really like to thank the librarians for allowing me to see these documents and i

. >> reporter: steve perry, birmingham, alabama. >>> you don't want to go anywhere.we come back, the mega church pastor who announced that he's gay. >> i wouldn't have known what to call it at the time is my sexual orientation. i know a lot of straight people think that orientation is a choice. i want to tell you that it's certainly is not. >> he is here live. i'm going to explain to bishop swilly, why he came out now and how his kids and wife are reacting to this news. >>> plus, what exactly was that mystery streak in the sky of california this week? we're going to take a closer look and a different look for you. [ female announcer ] in the grip of arthritis, back, or back joint pain? aspercreme breaks the grip, with maximum-strength medicine and no embarrassing odor. break the grip of pain with aspercreme. >>> the congregation at a georgia mega church will never forget and heard it one recent sunday. pastor jim swilley stood before them as a grandfather and announced that he was gay. >> there are two things in my life that are an absolute. i did not ask for either

she's a schoolteacher here in birmingham. is standing by gabe and standing beside him through this. >> final question, do you believe the prosecutors when they say they will keep their promise and not seek the death penalty? >> they have made such a public statement with that, i do believe that the death penalty is now off the table. and, frankly, i could never see, foresee one of our alabama judges putting gabe to death for his limited involvement in this tragic, tragic accident. >> brett bloomston, we thank you for your time this morning. >> thank you, dan. >>> all right. now, time for the news and weather. once again, ron claiborne. >> hey. good morning, again, dan and bianna. good morning, everyone. >>> we begin with a developing story in pakistan. police say they've arrested a man wearing an explosive vest who was on his way to attack a mosque in islamabad. he and another suspect admit it. they were planning to bomb buildings in the capital, including parliament. >>> and new concerns on a dangerous computer virus powerfu

a big thanks to everyone in birmingham watching "the early show" on cbs 42.endition of the holiday classic. over to you. >> breaking news, prince william and kate middleton are one step closer to the altar. we learned that the prince's girlfriend received the next best thing to a ring. she is invited to share the holidays with the queen. >> christmas for the british royals is a family affair. so kate middleton getting an invitation to join them as palace watchers a buzz. it's the clearest sign yet that a wed suggest ohm months away. >> i think the engagement is not a question of if, it's a question of when. >> the last truly gala wedding was 30 years ago when william's father prince charles married his mother, lady diana spencer. now the country is waiting for an encore. kate middle ton and prince william met at university in 2003 and as a couple they were fixtures on the club scene. recently the tone of their public appearances has become more sober. their intentions apparently serious. in fact over the past year while william finished training as a search a

maker, the first real rain in a week and a half is down here, louisiana, mississippi coming toward birminghamama and atlanta this morning. for us, this is little front is pushing through now, not doing much more us, but it will lead the way. you will notice moisture moving in. toward 11:00, there is rain again. for those of you going it the redskins' game, temperatures holding generally in the 50s here. could be second half showers. through 9:00 we're probably okay, but watch out for that. the next three days we have temperatures dropping tomorrow into the 50s with shower and rain. breezy on wednesday after a morning shower. thursday mostly cloudy an look at the weekend, nice again warming back into the 60s. here's angie goff with your time saver traffic. >>> checking out overall, no major problems to report. taking a look at a green light traffic report. moving it over to our maps, we do have this one accident on the outer loop at central avenue. the good news is we have been pushed off into the median, all traffic is getting by. a wider view, notice no more incidents or accidents in the sur

witnesses say the small plane tried to land in thick fog in birmingham airport.aft made a hard landing and caught fire. two people were hurt. one seriously. however, it fathers organ was not damaged. >>>it could be days before rescuers are able to enter a mine on new zealand's south island where 27 workers are believed to be trapped after an underground explosion. today's explosion at the pike river mine was so strong, it ators say build-up o e with methane gas caused by a power ouge caused the blast. official say the 27 pele trped a a mix of miners and external contractors. no contact has been made with the missing miners so far. >>> when we come back, a whole lot more. the "today" show goes viral with a new music video. >>> plus, keeping up with the kardashians will cost you. pecially if you sign up for one of these. ♪ >> it gets better. everybody is in on it. the entire crew of the "today" show put together this impressive viral video. going through the entire "today" show staff with a cameo from brian williams. going off some unique dance moves, we should say