we are joined by daniel markey. washington journal as live every morning at 70 and eastern with your calls, tweets, and facebook comments on c-span. both aswe are told students and as a nation in terms of the popular imagination is that there are all kinds of citizens and marches and demonstrations that occur but they are done by these famous iconic people. who was soparks tired that she refused to get up from the bus in alabama and sparked the boycott. a young preacher who even the president referred to during the election as this young preacher from georgia who was dr. martin luther king jr. who leads the masses of african americans from racial oppression. this notion that rosa sat and martin could do this kind of stuff and jesse could run and barack could fly. they sound good but they really simplify a much more complicated history. that can't get it history really involves so many african-americans who proactively dismantled racial saturation -- segregation, including rosa parks. she didn't just refuse to give u

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