the first and only person that ended up gettingly tried in connection but the reason it put martin luther king on the map is because the national media covered the trial manning the montgomery bus boycott was more a local issue until the city of montgomery decided we are going to prosecute martin luther king as the leader. suddenly the country starts paying attention. the first time he was ever mentioned in any sort of national publication in "the new york times" and beyond, but it was as a result of this trial and him being the defendant with fred gray as his attorney and as you can imagine he agreed to join us as a co-author with we d him to write an introduction and he said to us i believe this is the case that launched the civil rights movement. i would like to be more than just writing an introduction with you. my reaction was that's amazing. fred gray is going to agree to co-author this next book with us so that's how it happened. >> at the time you write one of two black attorneys in montgomery. also remember how young he was just out of law school. the legal team ended up defending doc

yes, we have martin luther king's testimony. that is what got david and i so excited initially about this book. we have martin luther king's own words being cross-examined in this book. the most powerful part of the book is hearing the accounts of the ordinary citizens of montgomery talking about what they had to endure. host: december 1, 1955, rosa parks does not stand up. how spontaneous was that act? dan: it was not spontaneous. fred gray and she had talked about it for a long time. the only question was when she was going to do it. i think that was one of the things that has been mischaracterized by history, this idea that rosa parks was just this lady. rosa parks was a civil rights leader already. she knew what she was doing. fred gray did not know she was going to do it on that day at that time. he was out of town when it happened. she and fred gray used to have lunch almost every day at his office. one of the things they would talk about was how are you going to do it? what is going to happen? it was preplanned >> and she

and the defense agreed that have one trial that will serve as a symbol of all of these and martin luther king was the first and only first that ended up getting tried in connection with this and fred gray represented it. we who put martin luther king on the map their reason was the national committee to cover the trap in the montgomery bus boycott was more of a local issue until the city of montgomery decided we are going to prosecute martin luther king as a leader. suddenly the country starts paying attention. a first-time martin luther king was ever them mentioned in any national publication from "the new york times" and beyond was as result of this trial and him being the defendant with fred gray as his attorney and as you can imagine when fred gray at greed to join us as a co-author we had asked him to write an introduction. he said to us, gentlemen i believe this is t the case to launch the silver rights movement. i would like to do more than writing an introduction with you. david and my reaction was that's amazing. fred gray is going to agree to co-author this next book with us? >> at

what did he do that the martin luther king couldn't do? yeah, well, mean he carried if he carried on martin luther king's legacy in a different way. like, as i mentioned, he was able to go into politics. he was able to run for mayor of atlanta, run for mayor of the martin luther king's birth city. same thing with jesse jackson thing. but julian bond, all these who were proteges of martin luther king jr actually continue to carry his legacy in politics or philanthropy or civic duty. you know, john lewis, for example, john lewis was, another nashville student. john lewis went on to become a congressman for 33 years, you know, and john lewis talk specifically about fact that martin luther king jr. brought him from nashville to atlanta on a bus because john lewis having trouble in school and invited him to atlanta. so in 1963, john lewis, the youngest person to speak at the march on washington. and ten years later, he's in congress. so these are kind of things that kind of that legacy that carries on. rodney king got at the age of 39. so he liv

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so while the book traces that history of martin luther king and it also traces the history of the martin luther king recordings, which have remained under seal since the 1970s. it also traces how wiretapping becomes normalized in the workings of american law enforcement in the name of the war drugs. and by the upwards of, 80 to 90% of wires that are tapped in this country in any given year are done for that specific purpose wage the war on drugs. and communities of color are at the front lines of that conflict. why are those martin luther king recordings still seal? more than 50 years later. so this is a really interesting and crazy story. the story of martin luther king being bugged. hoover's fbi is well, and it was in fact, well known during king's own life was a part of the public record. shortly following his death. the recordings themselves. were put under seal as a result of church committee investigations of the federal intelligence community in the 1970s and have remained under seal ever since. politicians those on the right have attempted to unseal those recordings over time in

the elites in the movement once she became nationally known and she was in atlantic city with martin luther king and ralph abernathy and that group around king. they disrespected her because she was not well-educated. she had a fairly strong mississippi delta accent. she was very poor so her clothing didn't meet their standards and they said that directly to her, that she was an embarrassment to them. look what you were wearing, you should go home and you are going to -- you wouldn't say that to fannie blue hamer. she was so grassroot she couldn't lead to the elites in the movement and martin luther king could not relate to her despite how we all think of him as this grassroots organizer. all the people under him ending communities across the country that were the organizers and he was an inspiring leader that he and hamer talked past each other. in fact in atlantic city hamer was there with a group of people from mississippi challenging the rights of the mississippi all democratic party to be seated on the convention floor and to vote for president johnson as the nominee of the democratic party

martin luther king and ralph abernathy in that group around king. they disrespected her because she was not well educated. she had a fairly strong mississippi delta accent. she was very poorest her clothing did not meet their standards but they said that directly to her she was an embarrassment to them. she was eight look what you are wearing pretty should go home. you're not going to say that to fannie lou hamer that is for sure. she was not going to take any of that. she was soo grassroots she could not relate to the elites in the movement. martin luther king could not relate to her. despite how we all think of him as this grassroots organizer, he was not. as of people below and under him and in communities across the country that were thewan organizers. he was the figurehead and the inspiring leader. but he and hamer talked past each other. in fact atlantic city hamer was there with a group of people from mississippi challenging the right of the mississippi all-white democratic party to be seized on the convention floor. and to vote for president

martin luther king and laos abernathy and all the group around king. they disrespected her because she was not welleducated . she had a fairly strong mississippi delta accent. she was very coarse. her clothing didn't meet their standards. they even said that directly loto her that she was an embarrassment and they said with what you're wearing, you should go home and you are going to say that to fannie lou hamer. she was not going to take any of that. she was so grassroots she could not relate to the elites in the movement and martin luther king could not relate to her despite how we all think of him as this grassroots organizer. he was not, it was all the people below and under him in communities across the country that were the ororganizers and he was the figurehead and the inspiring leader but he and hamer just talk past each other. the city he was there with a group of people from mississippi challenging the rights of the mississippi all-white democratic party to be seated on the convention floor and to vote for president johnson's nominee of the d

martin luther king-- martin luther king, who was then -- but anyway singing in the choir in the opening of the show and you've got the conversion of margaret mitchell when her maid, again, bringing in the maid, and can't get medical help and she donates money to who is it? >> morehouse medical school, yes, morehouse. that's a very beautiful story in its own way and for its time. margaret mitchell had had a black maid who got very sick and margaret mitchell was astonished that she couldn't find a hospital to admit and care for her black maid and even though margaret mitchell was willing to pay the bill. no white hospital would take and care for her maid and so, margaret mitchell had to bring this lady home and she died because she couldn't get medical care in georgia. it affected margaret mitchell so much that she wrote a letter to benjamin mays at morehouse and told him, i would like to contribute some money to train or to help train-- help fund the training of young black medical students, but she was so afraid that word might seep out in high society that she, a white woman, had helpe

nat turner, martin luther king and. john brown. indeed. confident. is he in the possibly of empathy and identification that i cannot find any interest in in which you comments or even acknowledges the difficult places of doing that work as a white academe historian one could criticize that confidence or one could see it as i do as the breadth of the transitional bridge to an entirely different tradition a tradition i would call reparative biography. the biography that to give voice to the missing, to those who have left out. and i think that oates's reparative impulse. i don't think that to me is even more evident in his methods than it is in his of subjects. and this is particularly true, i think, towards the end of his career. taking a page from faulkner increasingly moved away from a singular, dominant narrative voice to embrace modes of multiple quality and multiple perspective realism, making case as our keynote talk about and also taking the risk that it's not enough to imagine as other people. but we have to walk where they walk, see the world

it happened in the 3100 block of martin luther king jr. way. a victim is in the hospital in stable condition. no arrests have been made. > >> sideshow activity in san francisco last night leading to a major backup of traffic and delays at the intersection of main and harrison streets. vehicles completely took over the intersection, police were able to disperse the crowds quickly once they got there. no suspects were arrested and it is is still a active investigation. > >> immemorial is growing for a woman killed in a hit-and-run accident downtown. this is at the corner of california and civic drive near the center for the arts. the woman was trying to cross north carolina boulevard, she later died at the the hospital. the suspect was dg was driving a gold or tan four-door sedan. > >> a police officer is in the hospital after a hit-and-run accident that happened at 10 am this morning. officers saw somebody passed out in the driver seat of the car and after after waking him up, the driver took off and hit the officer on the way. police say that o

still with us and deepened and made even more powerful by the civil rights movement and by martin luther king's own martyrdom and sacrifice. that's why we have a martin luther king day today, as well. it's part of our official or unofficial, both official and unofficial, american theology. now, i just want to add to that there might be some listeners who feel troubled by the idea that our political theology is so derivative of christian stories and ideology. after all, we do have an establishment clause in our constitution and a free exercise clause. and lots of us would like to believe that we have a separation of church and state, although not everyone agrees that's the way it should formulated, i believe it is a good way to formulate it. i think the key to recognize when it comes to making of narratives, narratives are made, including national narratives, by the people making the decisions in the country according to their own moral instincts and judgments. and at the time that lincoln was speaking the united states was descriptive early and literally a christian country. there were very few

martin luther king jr.s one of the great people in history of the world and as for your feeling bad, you ought to rethink your feelings about that. >> can i get one more in. thank you so much, this is the lesson, on the use of the word (n-word) they are challenged the system via the teacher, a racialized system in a position of power, why do we individualize situations that are clearly about bigger issues? >> systems, organizations, forces work through people. and so it is never a system -- all of these systems, the school system has agents called teachers and we are asking how should a student interact with the teacher? i am not -- by the way, i am not denying that there are bigger issues. there are big issues involved. how should we deal with those larger issues? and ultimately, i am aware we are on our way out, ultimately what i want to say is our salvation lies in openness, candor, lies in pluralism, lies in a willingness to think, rethink, be willing to change our minds, be willing to accept other peop

>> martin luther king junior, by 1960, was a major player. not the major player, he was a major player and black society. and, the nature of the campaign with the black people was the story. better yet, the fable is that king was arrested for violating a minor parole violation. he was sent to a hard georgia prison, and one of kennedy's staff said, called kennedy and said you should call and offer your sympathy. and he did, and that is just about all he did was offer sympathy. because john f. kennedy was the last democratic candidate that actively solicited voters in the south. can you believe that john f. kennedy solicited white votes in the south? absolutely, that is what he did. but, according to the story, after the call to greta black people went crazy. they changed their vote enormously. according to the black newspapers, 5 million black people went to the polls. 50% of all black voters went to the polls to vote overwhelmingly for john kennedy. and the democrats sent out things across the united states. isn't this a great story? across t

before i did "django." ( cheers and applause ) so, i literally-- i literally went from being martin luther kingher king. and, being back on broadway, you forget... i mean, i started here, i pounded the pavement, i did plays all the time. and you forget how energizing, and how you look forward every night to meeting all these new people, and their energy and what that does for you. >> stephen: when you have that opportunity to make that connection in a different way, and to express the character in a different way? >> well, i'm playing a different character in this play. i originated this character 30-some years ago, at yale. >> stephen: wow. here we go. you were in this play. you played... >> i played boy willie. and john david washington is playing that character now. >> stephen: mm-hmm. >> and the character that i am playing now is this character, doaker, who was played by carl, who was a really good friend of mine at the time. >> stephen: so this is 1987. >> oh, yeah, long time ago. long time ago. >> stephen: up at yale. now, this was-- was this play still in development? was august wilson t

no, martin luther king, jr. the greatest people in the world and as to your feeling bad, you ought to rethink your feelings about that. >> okay. maureen, can i get one more in? >> yeah, sh your sure. >> thank you for making space and thank you for all the creating robust basis for us to actually engage in real ways. so this is the last question. when the black student challenges a teacher on the use of the word (n word) they're challenging the system via the teacher a representative of the racialized system and power. why do we continue to individualized situations that are clearly about bigger issues of racists? >> well, yeah, i mean, systems, organizations, forces work through people and so, you know, it's never a system that -- all of these systems, the school system has agents called teachers and you know, that's -- so, you know, we're asking how should a student interact vis-a-vis a teacher? i'm not -- by the way, i'm not denying that there are bigger issues. >> right. >> yeah, there are big issues involved

ellington, take the a train, ella fitzgerald, beyoncÉ, jay z, langston hughes, web dubois, martin luther kingjr. when i think of the measure of american soul what would this nation be without the trumping voice of martin luther king jr. trumpeting the truth, trumpeting brotherhood and sisterhood, trumpeting civil disobedience, trumpeting anti-violence and nonviolence and the ways in which we go about trying to make and remake american society and so in that sense our performances have been the balance of sanity and redemption for a nation that is often desiring and designed to undermine us, to distort us, to subvert us, leave us on the weak side while we continually contest for the center of american art, craft, vision, history, projects of politics and public policy and so i wanted to measure the way in which we do that across the board under so many rubrics as we call forth the black excellence with which we are guided, by which we are inspired to help inspire the world, to help reshape the world to participate as full-fledged citizens of a democracy that doesn't often appreciate who we are

martin luther king was using technology and relying on the technology of mainstream media to tell the story of what was happening on edmund pettis bridge. we are going to show the lynching the same pictures they use in postcards we are going to use to stir outrage. it's not an equal chance but a fighting chance. >> the question that comes to mind, you mentionedri grand rapids. there's -- cam video, cell phone video, home surveillance video, there's all this as it relates for all of their ubiquity they are not necessarily a guarantee that justice is going to be served. they are not necessarily even a deterrent. >> we have, i think we both recognize this area the miracle of the video and what it can do. we've also began to recognize the limits of video such that our book is called seen and unseen. two people can look at the same piece of video and come to bdifferent conclusions. thisua in some senses is analogs to the historical roots that we bring outoo in the book. your eye is a don't come completely without a history. they come with a certain amount of knowledge that you apply to wha

domingo 2 de octubre llevaron a un tiroteo en una residencia en la cuadra 3000 100 en la calle martin luther kingidencia encontraron varias pistolas, municiones y una gran cantidad de narcÓticos que incluÍa cocaÍna. la polar hacÍa anunciÓ el arresto de dos familiares de un niÑo de nueve aÑos que se ahogÓ en una piscina en el mes de julio, se trata de rocÍo beverly y pedro rivera, el padre del menor, quienes enfrentan cargos por negligencia poner en riesgo la vida de un menor. investigadores se enteraron de que no habÍa ningÚn adulto presente cuando el pequeÑo se ahogÓ y que habÍa salido de su casa sin su permiso. los detectives determinaron que el padre y su otra familia eran presuntamente responsables de incurrir en negligencia y no mantener a este menor vigilado. se le exige a la policÍa aclarar como un padre solteroque podrÍa ser arrestado por negligencia. de momento las autoridades no han dado detalles y los casos de negligencia infantil se define por leyes estatales y federales. tamara nos tienen en reporte y nos explica mÁs, preste atenciÓn. tamara: bajo el cÓdigo penal 250 de california un

martin's working, jr.." and my father turned to mark luther king and said, "martin, i want you to do what we spoke about."s shirt and showed me the recent scaof his abbing. and all my father said to me that i can remember is, "thiis what happens to us, julia, when we fig for our rights." martin remained silent. silence is something that maybe -- there's a lot to say about black sence. amy: of course, martin luther king, who stepped in chicago, not in the south, and chicago where he said he was more afraid when he was fighting for housing rights in chicago for african-americans, said he was more afraid than he was anywhere in the south. i wanted to bring in paul ortiz. professor, i'm glad you made it from gainesville, from florida. so hard-hit hit by the hurricane. made it to raleigh, north carolina. but the two of you participated virtually in this event this weekend. talk about what happened 103 years ago. the significance of what the african-americans in elaine who are landowners, business owners, professionals calling for better compensation for their crops, what happened to them. >> thank you, amy. it

the country in the constitution and the declaration of independence and abraham lincoln and martin luther kingthat the government should be colorblind when it treats us as individual citizens the supreme court only allows the use of rates now only for college admissions. nodded national security and policing in hiring, giving out money, giving out contracts, why should schools be able to consider us by our skin color rather than as martin luther king said as the content of our characters. >> right now something pending before them on an emergency basis is whether or not senator lindsey graham should have to testify before a jury that is investigating allegations of post election interference in 2020. his team says he has constitutional immunities to this. should the senator's application be granted? should that subpoena be blocked against him? indefinitely delayed insuring information that could either clear or increased scrutiny on the guilty will continue to lie on this grasp. >> i am glad that you read out the line that the lower courts are trying to draw here. i think the media has somewha

martin luther king and mrs. king's, bedroom. we flew down there, and the president was torn. he wanted to be president of all of the people, but he did not want to take on a political overtone like it was being used some way. it was very touching moment, and i described it quite early in the book. mr. nixon and i, got on a plane on saturday morning. and nixon's great friend, and we went down and we sent one advanced man. and they got a car, they went over to the king house, and we pulled up, nobody knew we were coming. we are told the king family to not publicize that we were coming. and the president, candidate, at this point, they went to the walkway. these kids, dr. king's kids, he shook hands with each one of them and had some words. private words. and the candidate and i actually walked in. when this was happening. he took her hand and he said, i'm so sorry. and he spent the remainder of time that he was with, i with the kids, and then about ten minutes later, he came back out and talk to the kids for another eight or ten minutes. and he went over to martin luther king's

started to experience some racism and it reached a peak in 1968 when they're watching tv when martin luther king jr. shot and one of the white seminarians says hope that smb dies and for clarence thomas that capped it off. he felt the church wasn't doing enough for civil rights that his grandfather was wrong about everything and he became in his own words and angry black man and became radicalized and decided i didn't want to be priest and his grandfather said well if you can make your own decisions, you're on your own and kicked him out of the house. so the only father he ever knew really kicks him out. he's on his own. he has to go wherever he has a scholarship holy cross in massachusetts and there he continues to be a radical. he helped start the black student union engages in a walk-out invite black panthers to come and speak. you may remember this period i do and the next period of his life is sort of working through that and coming back to his grandfather's values. and that reaches a one of the key moments in that is money goes to an anti-war demonstration in cambridge, massachusetts, and

they should have them also read thomas payne, jefferson, martin luther king, abraham lincoln. not that i believe everything in the liberal arts has to be a debate. but i believe that with multiculturalism, there must be a mode the coach realism about viewpoints and ideas about important things. that's crucial. >> john agresto you can listen to q&a and all our podcasts on our free c-span now app. c-span is your unfiltered view of government funded by these television companies and more including media,. >> the world changed in an instant but mediacom was ready. when schools and businesses wind virtual we powered a new reality. we are built to keep you ahead. >> mediacom supports c-span with these other television providers giving you a front-row seat to democracy. >> next, the supreme court is hearing oral arguments on whether alabama's congressional redistricting violates the voting rights act that prohibits discrimination on the basis of race concerning alabama's decision to implement a new congressional map after the 2020 census placed a high concentration of black voters in

and he started to experience racism and reached a peak in 1968 when they're watching tv, when martin luther king shot and one of the white semarians says i hope that s-o-b dies. clarence thomas felt that capped it off didn't feel the church did enough about civil rights. that his grandfather was wrong about everything. and that he became, in his words, an angry black man. and his grandfather says you can make your own decisions and kicked him out of the house and the only father he ever knew kicks him out. on his own and he has to go wherever he has fellowship, holy cross in massachusetts and he continues to be radical and helps to start the black student union and engages in walkouts and invites black panthers to come and speak. you may remember this story, i do. and the next part of his work is coming through that and coming back to his grandfather's values and that reaches one of the key moments when he goes to an anti-war demonstration in cambridge, massachusetts and it turns into a riot and he's swept up into a riot. and they get liquor from a liquor store ahead of time and he's caught up i

didn't know there was a -- [inaudible] believe at one point he threatens to allege that he and martin luther kinge -- and had a rivalry. >> baldwin said in an interview in turkey in istanbul king has been murdered. he is tried to commit suicide and a failed love affair. really trying to grapple with this book that was supposed to be an autobiography. excuse my language c-span it was o this mighty [bleep]. there was no name in the street. a reporter came over and there is a party and he asked them about hope. baldwin gave them that took fulfilled smile and he said pope was invented every day. so when i invoke hope it's not optimism because if you invoke hope everyday it means means you have to be despairing everyday. and so it's that blues hope that moment in the souls of folk as you are grappling with the fact that his son has died and he can't find solace. he can't find comfort and he said it's not hopeless. i'm hopeful. they hope not hopeless. i'm hopeful. b.b. king would translate that as nobody loves me. my mother and she could be dashed to. so this hope that she feels at thee end of the book

a young charismatic pastor named martin luther king, jr.e sustained participation, the boycott's organizers had local black churches work on keeping up morale and organizers also arranged a free carpool service. black cab drivers were compelled to charge black passengers just 10 cents for a ride, the local bus fare. eventually it led to the supreme court's 1956 bus decision that bus segregation was illegal. in a broader sense, the passage of the voting rights act never would have happened without the years of back room meetings between martin luther king jr. and lyndon b. johnson. this marks a new reality as one of the scholars who maintains the database writes. in a recent journal article. non-violent protests now no longer has a statistically significant advantage over armed insurrection in terms of achieving systemic change in the country. let me be clear, that does not tell us much about iran. individual countries can always be exceptions to a trend. but the trend is a troubling one. thanks to all of you for being part of my program thi

>> martin luther king junior, by 1960, was a major player. not the major player, he was a major player and black society. and, the nature of the campaign with the black people was the story. better yet, the fable is that king was arrested for violating a minor parole violation. he was sent to a hard georgia prison, and one of kennedy's staff said, called kennedy and said you should call and offer your sympathy. and he did, and that is just about all he did was offer sympathy. because john f. kennedy was the last democratic candidate that actively solicited voters in the south. can you believe that john f. kennedy solicited white votes in the south? absolutely, that is what he did. but, according to the story, after the call to greta black people went crazy. they changed their vote enormously. according to the black newspapers, 5 million black people went to the polls. 50% of all black voters went to the polls to vote overwhelmingly for john kennedy. and the democrats sent out things across the united states. isn't this a great story? across t