they thought in birmingham they would do it differently. it would be more -- they were learning as they went. they were going into one of the most frightening racist towns in the whole country. so they felt that cometh they cracked birmingham, they could crack jim crow. i won't go through the whole story, but, if in those weeks leading up to jail, things weren't going well. the black people of birmingham and the black clergy were not responding to his call to go forward. and you hear a very frustrated king who is disappointed with black people before he is disappointed in the clergyman in a letter. a few weeks before all this happens, god is telling moses why are you having the children of israel complained to me to take them to the promised land? they have to go there themselves. and then you hear king saying i can do it alone. you start to hear the -- i can't do it alone. you start to hear the frustration and him. they may lose, after all they llve ambled, they have gone oa in antifamily decides that he wi ginto court arrest because he ne

>>> coming up, 50 years ago in birmingham, alabama, thousands of school children braved police dogs, fire hoses and arrest to march against segregation. >> it was about having a dream of a better day. >>> and is there a connection between god and baseball? bob faw reports. >>> major funding for "religion & ethics news weekly" is prov e provided by the lily endowment dedicated to its founders' interests in religion, community development and education. addition funding prod by mutu ofamerica, designing customized individual group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. and the corporation for public broadcasting. >>> welcome, i'm deborah potter, sitting in for bob abernethy. it's good to have you with us. u.s. muslim leaders this week condemned the deadly bombing in boston as more details emerged about the suspects. officials have described the tsarnaev brothers as motivated by religious extremism, but said they did not have ties to terrost orgizations. some attention has focused on a boston mosque where the suspected bombers occasionally prayed, after reports o

do you remember about birmingham?hat comes out in your book is your family and your involvement in white society at that time. how much of that went into why you wrote the book? and how much has changed on the white side in birmingham? >> within less than 24 hours after the bombing the white mayor made a public statement saying all of us are victims and most of us are innocent victims. and when i read about that, that to me sort of captured the attitude of the white people at the time that the civil rights problems were something being inflicted upon them, rather than a condition they created and benefited from. so it's partly that mindset that i grow up in was a reflection of that we wanted to explore. we considered martin luther king as an outside agitator. and he was, but i didn't realize at the time that that was a good thing. so i -- so i grew up in that atmosphere, and it wasn't until i was in my late 20s that i came to see this as something having to do with me. one of the negotiations with king to make the dem

police dogs and fire hoses in birmingham in 1963.labama state troopers beating back protestors on the bridge in selma in 1965. and their violence would strike a flint on the nation's conscience. >> and we shall overcome. >> president lyndon johnson pushed through landmark civil rights bills to open up public accommodations to ensure access to voting rights. and signed the laws as dr. king stood over his shoulder. by the late 1960s, andrew young says king had become exhausted. >> we were pretty well worn out. i mean, he had been going from '55 to '67 without a let-up. >> there was a rumor dr. king was planning a sabbatical, maybe in india or in africa. was that true? >> he was thinking about it. that was his -- that was his dream. it wasn't india or africa. it was really riverside church. >> the prestigious riverside church in new york was looking for a pastor. >> he said, that was my ideal. that's what i wanted to be when i grew up. >> i speak out against this war. >> but that never happened. instead, this speech at riverside will be

. > 50 years ago, this april, in birmingham, alabama, martin luther king jr. arrested for organizing a civil rights demonstration. he spent eight days in jail, and in solitary confinement. it was there that he wrote his classic vigorous defense of nonviolent civil disobedience, his "letter from birmingham jail." this weekend in birmingham, christian leaders gathered to apologize for 1960's era moderates who had urged king to be patient and not permit direct confrontations. they also urged people of faith today to continue doctor king's anti-racism campaign. >> we have to come together and say, what is the agenda that we share? for fixing what's broke. fixing broken people, broken families. broken nations. broken cities, broken communities. >> it was in his letter from birmingham jail, that dr. king wrote -- injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. >>> finay, legendary gospel singer george beverly shay died this week at the age of 104. shay became famous as the featured soloist at billy graham crusades. during his 80-year career, he recorded more t

they were hauled off to birmingham jail.rifying images of young people being attacked on the evening news served as a wake-up call to americans really throughout the world about segregation in this country. with at the tonight is one of the courageous young people who participated in the march. james was a high school student at the time. he went on to work with black awareness who recruited black students for college. it's an honor to having you tonight, james. >> thank you for having me. >> michael: what was it like growing up in segregated birmingham in the 1960s? >> it was really tough. at the beginning you--you're growing up, your life is your life. you're riding your bicycle and you're playing in the yards like other kids. but as you get older i started to notice the colored signs, the segregation. the fact that i could not drink out of cold water fountains. the black community as it was then was totally black. everybody listened lived in the same neighborhood. it was a difficult life to live the older you got. >> mich

and she said, they killed some little black girls down in birmingham. i had no idea that i would eventually become deeply involved in the southern christian leadership conference. and i realized later that the reason for the bombing of the 16th street church is that it had been the headquarters, the meeting place of the southern christian leadership conference led by martin luther king jr., the vice president ralph david be aer naggetty, my father in the ministry, who wrote to me, i am your paul, you are my silas, and fred shuttlesworth who says he taught me how to preach. and they met there and that was reason enough to blow up that building and kill these little girls, innocent little girls. was pleased in 1979 when richard aaronnington was elected mayor of birmingham and i remember thinking, fred shuts worth had coined the term -- shuttles worth had coined the word bombingham because his own home was blown to bits and on the day that richard aaronnington was elected mayor, i said, it is no longer bombingham, it is now birmingham. . ms. sewell, congra

jefferson county is a separate municipal entity from the city of birmingham and the city of birminghams its own financial resources. so we've had to constantly fight that battle to let people know, it is not the city of birmingham that a separate governmental entity altogether. >> we constantly have a debate around the set we were just having about austerity, cuts, versus tax hikes. what's going on in birmingham right now and how is that debate played out? >> well, 2010, when i became the mayor, it was probably at the height of the recession. and we were spending somewhere in the neighborhood of about $2 million a week. we had to cut that in half to slow our spending down. but being a city, you just can't cut spending and then expect the city to move forward. so we had to look at other opportunities to increase jobs in the area, to make sure that the vitality of the city still moved forward. and that may cause a lot of conversation among people, what's the best way to do that. as you know, in tough times, people look to the government to come up with ways to stimulate the economy, crea

i am in birmingham because injustice is here. moreover, i am cognizant of the interdependency of all communities and states. i cannot sit idly by in atlanta and not be concerned about what's happening in birmingham. injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. we are caught in a network of neutrality, tied in a single garment of destiny. whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. never again can we afford to live with a narrow provential outside agitator idea. anyone who lives in the united states of america can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds. we know through painful experience that freedom is neither -- never voluntarily given by the oppressor. it must be demanded by the oppressed. i have yet to engage in a direct campaign that was not well timed in the view of those who have not suffered unduly for the disease of segregation. for years now, i have heard the word wait. it rings in the ear of every piercing. it almost means never. we must hear what one jurist said, justice too long

they talked about turning parts of birmingham into a war zone. they described themselves as suicide bombers driving around ready to take on england. >> they were very critical of the 77 bombers in terms of not killing enough people. they wanted to kill a lot of people. they aspired to their 9/11. they wanted to go down in history as doing that. >> this picture shows the ringleader and another man returning to the u.k. from pakistan. they had attended the terrorist training camp where he had become an expert in bomb making. they pretended to be collecting money for charity, taking in thousands of pounds from their own community. they cheated the charity out of the cash. they have been disowned by those among whom they used to live. --of course we're a great angry and appalled that any individuals, in respect of of their culture or face, would be willing to embark on such a violent campaign within the city. >> inside the home of one of the men, they started experimenting with all making equipment he boasted that this would be like another 9/11. the

that includes birmingham, alabama, where we get our report from nbc's gabe gutierrez. >> it's coming toward us. >> reporter: a massive tornado barrelled across mississippi this afternoon, killing at least one person and injuring several others. dozens of homes and businesses in kemper county destroyed. preliminary reports say the tornado was on the ground for 56 miles. >> on radar we saw extremely violent signature with this. we saw tornado debris signatures with this. we have seen video of the big wedge or big cone-shaped tornado. >> we have seen houses split in half. >> reporter: at daybreak in missouri and arkansas today, the first look at damage caused by tornadoes and high winds. trees tossed like matchsticks. sonny martin's family barely made it out alive. >> i basically told her to run and get the baby. >> reporter: gusts up to 100 miles per hour reported in some areas in northern arkansas. >> it's breathtaking what a storm like this can do. these are pieces of people's lives that are just scattered across the area. >> reporter: tractor-trailers flipped over along highway 65.

-- electric car sales and services who is from menlo park to birmingham.n monday the city's planning is set to vote on a permit for the company their rival says i'd have fired about wondered 60 employees that equals about 75% of its workforce. the move is being described as a last-ditch effort to conserve cash and put off a potential bankruptcy filing. the company's flagship vehicle is the 100,000-dollar karma plug-in hybrid. >> target customers in new york were offended by the color description on a plus sized address. the tag on the dress show the color as manatee gray apparently referring to the huge marine animals. smaller sizes of the address listed the same color as dark heather gray. targa called the labeling an unintentional oversight and has pulled the dress. santa rosa police are looking for a man who robbed a bank this morning police said the man of the surveillance video robbed a chase bank on ord street around 11:20. investigators say he handed the teller a note when ran off with an undisclosed amount of cash. is described as a black male betw

they made an arrangement that there'd be a patrol car every 50 miles between birmingham and montgomerynd a private plane flying over the bus and the montgomery police department would be better to meet us at the greyhound bus station in montgomery. an angry mob if you have a pen and a pad, a camera, we're in real trouble. destroy their paths in the canvas and turned en masse in receipt date was beaten. they left unconscious on the ground. the 52 years later, it was this young chief who is not even warrant three weeks ago. three weeks ago today they came to the old church where i first met dr. king and reverend abernathy and apologized for what happened. [applause] >> there are so many of these stories. terrific stories. what kept you two going? how do you sustain -- but noted they do? detect a little bit about that just a minute ago. >> what motivated me is his word, troublemaker. i've heard the word from what i was knee-high to grasshopper. i was a troublemaker. troublemaker because you wrote in to see people who didn't have food. the congressmen, the troublemaker. i sat back and let

the bombing of the 16th street baptist church in birmingham on september 15, 1963. many trace this decisive and heinous act to an emphasis of the passage of the historical civil rights act of 1964. it was a national revulsion caused by the deaths of these innocent lives, calculated to kill in a bomb in a place of worship. it was indeed a sad day for the entire country. it can correctly be said that 50 years ago my hometown found itself the epicenter of the civil rights movement. the images of conflict and violence from birmingham that flickered nationally on what were still predominantly black and white tv stations, screens, shocked the conscious of the nation, and i believe most citizens of alabama. during the recent faith and politics congressional civil rights pilgrimage to alabama, a large bipartisan delegation of members viewed some of the historic sites in birmingham. we were led on the pilgrimage by my friend and congresswoman sewell's friend, congressman john lewis, who from personal experience, as we know he was beaten many times himself. the 16th street ba

don't care shut the frick up so there's no action being taken there was against aston walker the birmingham looter he stole like a piece of clothing he's a freedom fighter aston walker's a freedom fighter the birmingham looting was the logical outcome of being raped and pillaged by banks are led by george osborne who by the way will not be in his job in six months i predict when mark carney comes and he's going to want to consolidate his power he's already doing so by taking on the regulatory agency he will get rid of george osborne and mark carney will have george osborne walk the plank goodbye georgie you search yourself up for failure you're typically british in that way so get out of my light. goes off go into the strand your. well asin locker was the epitome of this case of the social hierarchy being forced through the law some people are arrested for stealing stuff others are you know given knighthoods now but why should they get away with it will they enforce that let's turn to this headline banks score major win in private lives or suits so the private lawsuits against the banks inc

of alabama birmingham quarterback power.ing of that, there is a program in east birmingham called studio by the tracks which provides after-school arts programs and opportunities for troubled teenagers and children with various united way type needs. as concerned as i am -- >> could you get to your question please. >> i'm sorry. i cannot seem to make these people about gun rights and gun ownership and so forth who in the debates ever since, you know, the shooting in connecticut in november realize that criminals getting their hands on guns and firearms comes from a completely different cause blowing up without their fathers and without other significant male role models as children. we have had decreased federal and state dollars for united way agencies and public school boards after-school programs. -- >> you know what, we got your point. we appreciate your calling in. and louise rodriguez, if you could take what she was saying. >> i think what he's saying is you need every resource par rounds. you need to have proper conne

wrote his letter from a birmingham jail.violent direct action protests against racial segregation in birmingham. and while in jail, he received a public statement of caution and concern written to him by eight white religious leaders of the south. they were moderates, but they edg urged him to wait and to proceed with caution. king's letter was originally meant to be just a response to this small group. but after he put down his pen, king had written the manifesto of the civil rights movement, a compassionate and philosophical defense to unjust laws. king wrote, there comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of does pair. he went on to say more and more people of ill will have used time much more effectively than the people of good will. so celebrate this classic document of american thought and the five decades of progress that have followed in its wake. the birmingham public lish -- on tuesday, as a reminder that our continuing struggles are interconnected,

this is on the streets of birmingham in the uk. and you see a ton of cars here with ra ta ton of spectators. this person with the arm start to get the race started is this little person here. >> is that a child? >> that is, in fact, a child that is placed in front of these cars that are about to go more than 100 miles an hour to start the race. in this video, you see an adult holding the child, showing the child how to start the race. and then walked away and let's the kid do it alone. >> that's a dangerous place for anybody to be, let alone a young child. i would call that child endangerment the. >> and that is why the police department started an operation last year to crack down on these races. and in this other part of the video, we see one car running to another car that's right in front of it. it's showing out out of control things can get so quickly. because of this footage captured on hidden cameras as part of this ragz, about 250 of these drivers were taken to court. they were fined sometimes as much as $3,000. and they be

. >> the rifle, the one ray bought in birmingham, is on display today. upstairs in the rooming house, now part of the national civil rights museum run by beverly robertson. it's got a scope on the top. >> yes, he had a scope on it. i think he felt he needed a scope, but it was a very short distance. you didn't need to be a marksman or a sharpshooter to be able to hit the target. >> it was an easy shot. >> it was an easy shot. i bet you or i could have made that shot. >> across at the lorraine motel, witnesses had pointed to the back of the boardinghouse. >> so we went up there, got to the top of the steps and there was a little lady there, and she appeared to be deaf, dumb. she was doing like this. it was like she was shooting a rifle, and she pointed to the bathroom at the end of the hallway. >> in the bathroom, the police captain found the window open, its screen knocked out. >> you could see exactly to the motel where dr. king had been shot. >> he went to find the landlady. >> i asked her who was renting this room, and she went and got a receipt book

did the we had to eyewitnesses' through an act of god were able to identify him on the day of the birminghame could get search warrants for his mobile home, a storage shed and once we started seeing what was in the facilities, we could piece together not only birmingham but atlanta that have been two years earlier. up until that point* the folks in atlanta who had done a fabulous job had no idea who eric rudolph was. it took piecing physical evidence together to make the case. neil: there ought to be 100 more like you. not to blow you smoke but thank you very much. crackdown, so many bad guys decades after the fact. talk about boston in those

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. >> klan members responsible for the 1963 bombing of the baptist church in birmingham that ultimatelyafrican-american girls. bottom line, you do not mess with mr. jones because he is tenacious. and i am very odd to have you with us. >> thank you. neil: that was my immediate concern. i don't know if we are making the league. obviously the fbi does is research. technology. licking their residue for a backpack to a similar colors. people wearing similar backpacks. i understand all that. but these guys have already been called the bombers by the media apart from just as suspects. risk that they are not? >> yes. certainly there is a risk, but think we have, years from the 1996 olympic park bombing in which richard jewell was really not declared a suspect in a press conference the you saw here. a lot of media leaks from law-enforcement at the time. and he was started more because of a profile that he seemed to fit rather than physical evidence. neil: but i remember, you know, i do remember a rush. we have to find the guy, we have to find the yakima and i'm not saying authorities given to th

now we are receiving warnings spotted at an airport in birmingham. >> we're working in close cooperation with law-enforcement parker's across the nation to gather information and follow-up investigation. i would encourage the public to continue to call and into a social media, particularly twitter and facebook and to just get the word out. >> preliminary investigation said she altered her periods as well as her sons in order to attempt to avoid being located. he said they disappeared in 2011 and ended up in los angeles. tensions remain high in the north korean peninsula with a possible missile launch following weeks of threats from north korea. the north is celebrating the birthday of its founder. john gonzalez is live in the newsroom. he has more on the reaction of this living threat. >> it is a big threat. as north korea celebrates that it did a good holiday its young leader is promising an all-out war with the u.s.. secretary of state john kerry says there's still hope for peace but remains on high alert. >> john kerry says the u.s. prepared for direct talks with north korea if kim jo

-- electric car sales and services who is from menlo park to birmingham. on monday the city's planning is set to vote on a permit for the company their rival says i'd have fired about wondered 60 employees that equals about 75% of its workforce. the move is being described as a last-ditch effort to conserve cash and put off a potential bankruptcy filing. the company's flagship vehicle is the 100,000-dollar karma plug-in hybrid. >> target customers in new york were offended by the color description on a plus sized address. the tag on the dress show the color as manatee gray apparently referring to the huge marine animals. smaller sizes of the address listed the same color as dark heather gray. targa called the labeling an unintentional oversight and has pulled the dress. santa rosa police are looking for a man who robbed a bank this morning police said the man of the surveillance video robbed a chase bank on ord street around 11:20. investigators say he handed the teller a note when ran off with an undisclosed amount of cash. is described as a black male be

s letter from a birmingham jail for it was written as a response to one alabama clergy who criticizeding's actions during the birmingham campaign, a series of nonviolent sit ins and marches held to protest racial segregation. this is dr. king reading a pa of a letter he wrote in jail after he was arrested for defying a judge's ban on protests. >> you speak of our activity as extreme. was not jesus an extremist for love? bless them that curse you and pray for them which despite fully persecute you. we be extremists for the preservation of injustice, for the extension of justice. >> that was from the film "king ." those are some of the headlines. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with aaron matÉ. >> welcome to all our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. bombing from monday's at the boston marathon stands at three dead and 144 wounded, 17 critically. it was the worst bombing since the oklahoma city attack of 1995. wereber of children included. and 8-year-old boy named martin richard was killed. his sister

nearly 50 years since four young girls were killed after members of the ku klux klan bombed the birminghamama church where they were worshipping. the pictures of these four girls puts a devastating new face on the country's racial terrorisms. today in washington, the house of representatives will move one step closer to posthumously awarding them with the congressional gold medal. joining mess is congresswoman terry sewell, also joining me is diane braddock, the sister of carol robertson, one of the girls who was killed in that bombing. ladies, good morning. congresswoman, i want to start with you. explain how this measure came about to want to move ahead with this ceremony? >> you know, it's a long overdue recognition, in this the 50th anniversary year, the alabama delegation came together, both republicans and democrats, we thought it was very important and befitting that we acknowledge and honor the lives of addie mae, carol, cynthia, as well as denise mcnair. so that's what we wanted to do. it's the 50th anniversary, a long time overdue. i'm just honored that dianswer and lisa mcnair,

at the moment, this office, o.h.r.p., is negotiating with the university of alabama at birmingham as to what they're going to do. they're basically going to be told do a better job next time with informed consent but whether this is going to involve a formal apology to the parents hasn't been decided. the people who've run the trial don't think they did anything wrong. they think that they had adequate explanation of the trial and truly informed consent. but the o.h.r.p. offers says they didn't and it's now a matter of negotiation what they tell the parents. >> woodruff: this is the office of human research protections that falls under the department of health and human services. so just quickly, david brown, who or what is to determine now whether there was liability in all this? >> well, of course, that's a big question that the office of human research protections doesn't want to the address. in fact, i asked them about that today. if there is an apology and that can be interpreted by a lawyer as some statement of culpability and liability there probably will be lawsuits. but it's

that the people who staged the sit-ins, the young children in birmingham, they made the movement possible. and i think that this is a extremely important as we commemorate martin luther king. now, also in the 50 years since the march on washington, some amazing things have happened, in my life and many of the lives of the people in this room. if someone had come to me at the march and said, guess what, in about a dozen years you'll be teaching african-american history at stanford university. i would have said, yes, and i'll be living on mars also. because many of you know that that was an inconceivable dream for a 19 year old at that point. or in two decades coretta scott king would call me and edit the papers of her late husband. or in three decades that i would be asked to join this team roma design right here in san francisco and design the king national memorial. and i would be going back to the mall where i was as a 19 year old as one of the 2 million people who were there for the first inauguration of president barack obama. and just a year later, a couple of years later, going back

king's words from the birmingham jail. i've seen that all the time, people who are i think in their core good people who don't know what to do who tend to send the paradigm that boys will be boys and girls will be girls and we're trying to shift that paradigm. and that's why in okahenapen we have an accountability document that calls for --. >> (inaudible) with the idea, like i said, there is not a state going that we don't have a parent that has a dead child. we are dragging everybody to the party because at what point do we say, we can't even say, kids are dying. hundreds and hundreds of children have died when this should be the best times of their life and our most sensitive, compassionate, empathetic, our children are not surviving their childhood. >> one thing i've learned in my line of work, and again i want to thank you for your remarks and your doggedness, civil rights is about persistence. you exude persistence. i have attempted to live a persistent life. the civil rights act of 1964 was first introduced in 1948,

i've met, i was in birmingham, alabama, recently and i met a mother whose daughter fortunately did not take her own life but it was such a scare and she's put in place a number of programs and i found myself in awe of her. but at the same time, i come from a family of doctors, actually, i'm the only lawyer. all my 4 siblings were