he has done the most organizing, in particular the mississippi delta. they diverge to a mississippi delta. saw the largest black communities in the state. he is really made a name. service see this as a chance to create the moving, evolving demonstration of grass-roots organizing at the same time showcase the new direction. carmichael, not that he's an unknown prior to march, but it's really what catapults him into a political celebrity. by the end of the march he is essentially considered the heir to mount attacks. the voice of black radicalism, exceptionally charismatic my gift for talking to local people and connecting to so many different audiences, whether that is in harlem or the mississippi delta. he is charismatic, powerful, and provocative. it's almost like he makes a rhetorical point to not appeal. even when it's pushed and pushed and pushed, he's almost cleverly stubborn about how he presents it says. >> that part of what animates the sentient. the other main character, and let the king, he becomes an summer is the moral center of the march.

he shot he recognizes an opportunity because sncc has done the most organizing especially the mississippi delta of into largest communities where sncc has a lot of local connections. it is a chance at the same time to showcase the new direction not the key is unknown it catapults into a local celebrity by the end considering the air to malcolm x. especially charismatic he has a gift to talk to local people to connect to so many different audiences whether harlem or mississippi delta. he is charismatic, powerful and provocative he makes a rhetorical point even when pushed and pushed cleverly stubborn. concerned with uplifting black people not to appease even the liberals for pcs as the uncertain ally. >> host: that is what animates the power. >> the other main character martin luther king is the moral center. without him is not the march it is his presence those who just want to see martin luther king and also draws national media attention and sncc realizes if we take king out we need him for the attention imperforate. if he is called the multiple directions. he constantly on one level tries to

, the poorest part of the nation's poorest state. >> they say if you can take the delta out of mississippihe numbers would go way up from what you're saying, and that is true. >> reporter: for some strong parenting overcomes poverty. librarian is putting her daughter through college and enrolled her son into a reading program at three months. >> learning to read and becoming educated at an early age is crucial because it gets our people out of their cycle of poverty. >> reporter: for others there are some state programs. april runs mississippi building blocks a state agency aimed at preschoolers in daycare centers. >> children at that age are a sponge and they soak up everything that you give them. >> reporter: the program has lifted reading rates but operates in just a few dozen of the state's 17 hyundai care centers on a budget of $3 million. 1% of the state's budget for prisons. for the rest of the state parents can hope for someone like celia ward. >> you play your bills, and there is nothing left. what do you do? >> reporter: but the strain is showing. al jazeera, moorhead, mississipp

. >> also riding along, david muth, the director of mississippi delta restoration. >> this is cadda island. several pairs of brown pelicans nesting, rosy spoon bills rezaing, there was a healthy forest of mangroves here. oil spill got into the colony and it was underneat the mangroves. >> the birds are gone and the island is now considered dead. >> it's sick thing. i mean, this was a beautiful, beautiful place. >> and it's patches of marsh land that took the brunt of the oil as it washed ashore, affecting the ecosystem and the livelihoods of fishermen. >> mark lost thousands of dollars of business, in 2010 and says the business is not the same today but he did say bp helped him in the aftermath. >> the money pretty much helped make up for our losses. >> back in new orleans at b and p, the opinion is different. al would like to see bp spend more to building up the fisheries on the louisiana coast. >> bp has band-aided and promoting all the good they do rather than doing what they are supposed to do. >> reporter: meanwhile research continues on the environmental impact. the state has a plan

black majorities, whether that's in harlem or just outside of chicago, the mississippi delta, organize those blacks and majorities. use that to leverage the political power as an independent force. >> and what element? how intentional is totally carmichael? here is this march and this will be a platform to a and by the black power missouri got so frustrated with the march that black power emerged. prexy came to the march with these ideas go with this message, even with the slogan of black power soon after the shooting of meredith, it goes back to the atlantic to talk to the central committee, the governing body the direction a black power, and he uses the slogan says. even before the famous rally, but he does not use it as a slogan. it doesn't say what we want? until midway through the marsh. and that's on purpose. he has organized for a long time dating back to the early 1960's. lots of local people, advanced organizers said this is the best place for us to use this slogan and capture. emma black power is used in the way its projected and immediately becomes a controversy and somethin

john hedron reports from mor moorhead in the mississippi delta. >> reporter: sometimes the best cecilia can do is a type of first aid. before she can teach the toddlers in her child care center to read she has to take on their crippling hardships. >> i had a father tell me i don't know how to be a father because it don't come with a manual, so what i see with early liliteracy is we need help. >> reporter: a report b ranked mississippi last in literacy along with new mexico among the 50 american states. few places have it worse than moorhead. >> reporter: across the u.s. literacy has been on the rise but the gap between rich and poor keeps getting wiser, and that hits harder in the nation's poorest state. >> they say if you take the numbers from delta, mississippi, the numbers would go way up, and that is true. >> reporter: for some strong parenting overcomes poverty. like librarian valerie who has put her son in reading program at three months. >> learning to eat and becoming jade theducated--are learning td and becoming educated is crucial. >> children are like a sponge, and they soak

. >> i can't believe how much of this land is gone riding along, the directer mississippi delta restorationbefore the spill there was a healthy area here. the oil got into the colony, and it was underneath the groves. >> the birds are gone and the island is considered dead. >> it's sickening. this was a beautiful, beautiful place. >> it's patches of marsh land that took the brunt of the oil as it washed ashore. >> mark said that business is not the same today. but he does say that bp helped him in the aftermath. >> the money that it gave us helped us make up our losses. >> back in new orleans at p & j oyster company, it is different. they would like bp to spend millions more on building up the eroding coast and fisheries. >> bp's band aid and has spent lots of money promoting all the good they do rather than doing what they're supposed to do. >> meanwhile, research conditions on the environmental impact. the state has a plan in place to save the eroding coast. building islands for wildlife and see the seafood industry survive. tony, bp since 2010 when the oil spill occurred has paid $11 mil

the director of mississippi delta restoration. >> this is cadda island, there were roseate spoon billsnesting, some of the most horrifying images of the oil spill came from. oil got into the colony and it was underneath the mangroves. >> the birds are gone and the island is now considered dead. >> it is sick thing. this was a beautiful, beautiful place. >> and its patches of marsh land in barataria bay, affecting the ecosystems out here and the livelihoods of the fishermen. >> mark brockhoff says business is not the same today but he does say that bp helped him in the aftermath. >> the money they gave us pretty much helped make up for our losses. >> back in new orleans at p and j, the opinion is difference. al says he would like bp to spend more in building up the coast and the fisheries. >> bp has band-aided and spent lots of money promoting all the work they do rather than doing what they're supposed to do. >> dead fish. >> reporter: meanwhile research continues on the environmental impact. the state has a plan in place to help save the eroding coast. build new barrier islands for wi

. >> reporter: also riding along, the director of mississippi delta restoration. >> this is the islandre the spill there were several hundred pairs of brown pelicans nesting, there was a healthy forest of black man grove here. the oil got into the colony and was underneath the man groves. >> reporter: the birds are gone, and the eye land is now considered dead. >> it's sickening. this was a beautiful, beautiful place. >> reporter: and if patches of marshland here that took the brunt of the oil as it washed ashore, affecting the ecosystems out here, and the livelihoods of fisher mapp. mark lost thousands of dollars in the summer of 2010 and says that business is not the same today, but he does say that bp helped him in the aftermath. >> the money they gave us pretty much helped make up for our losses. >> reporter: back in new orleans, the opinion is different. al would like bp to spend billions more on building up the eroding coast and fisheries. >> bp band aided and spent lots of money promoting all of the good that they do, rather than doing what they are supposed to do. >> dead fish.

, whatever the black majorities whether that's in harlem or the south side of chicago or the mississippi delta, organize blacks in majority. leverage that political power as an independent force. >> host: how intentional is stokely carmichael say here is this march in mississippi and this will be a platform to amplify the black power method -- message or he got so frustrated with the march the black power emerged? >> guest: came to the march for sure with these ideas, with this message even with the slogan of black power. soon after the shooting of meredith, carmichael goes back to atlanta to talk to the center committee, the government on the of sncc why they should purchase me in the march. among the argument for it gives us a platform to advertise our direction a black power and use that slogan. uses the slogan black power even before the famous rally in greenwood but he doesn't use it as a chant. he doesn't use it as a slogan. midway through the march, sncc is organizing greenwood for a long time. there had been advanced organizers present this is the best place for us to use this slogan a

it's a longer conversation about the mississippi delta, and the channelizing of the mississippi rivernd the way we need to rebuild the wetlands. but i think the obama administration has an opportunity right now, second term, to at least say, what are some zones that we're not going to allow offshore drilling. i think the chesapeake bay needs to be off-limits, and certainly the technology is not available to go drilling off of the arctic national wildlife refuge in alaska. it's going to be a disaster in waiting. so we've got to put treasured landscapes above quick dollars for the energy petro dollars. and we as americans need to do that. and some places are just too sacred. we need to create them as sanctionwea arys. >> you've actually written a book about that, a lot of presidential history books. i want to ask you about this particular one detailing president they oh door roosevelt's environmental policies. when you look at the presidents and their work on the environment, first of all, who's caused the most damage? >> the most damage in recent time, i would say -- well, two of them,

bourdain has been everywhere from punjab, india to baja to brazil, fresh wine country to the mississippi deltames a few of his stops. the latest season of bourdain's award-winning series "to parts unknown" will be shown tonight at 9:00 p.m. he joins me to tell me what he has learned. welcome, back. >> thank you. good to be here. >> i was struck by russia. you went to russia, and i always felt when you go to russia and you go to one of those really fancy restaurants you went to that the oligarchs go to, the russians party at kind of an amplitude that is so different. it's like "spinal tap," they go to 11 or 12. >> no doubt. it's a problem for me. it explains why i really only do programs in russia every few years. i really need to rest up. they're not the most outgoing people in the world until you get around halfway down that vodka bottle, and there will be, as you know, always a vodka bottle. i just can't drink like that every day. and yet one must in order to -- if you're going to get comfortable and get people to open up and talk to you there, you've got to drink. >> but the food is also ki

. >> brown: more than three days, more than 100 participants traveled by bus to the mississippi delta. clarksdale on to jackson and into alabama for a march in selma. in jackson, they visited a an historically black liberal arts school founded by christian missionaries for freed slaves. >> people gathered after the assassination of medgar evers -- >> brown: they heard from dr. king one of the organizers of the 1964 freedom summer who delivered the sermon at the if you recall for james cheney, andrew goodwin and others murdered nearby that summer. >> the angels gathered -- >> brown: natasha read a poem based on witnessing a cross burning on her family's lawn. >> we tell the story every year how we peered with from the windows, shades drawn, though nothing really happened. the charred grass now green again. we peered from the windows, shades drawn, at the cross trussed like a christmas tree, the charred grass still green. then we darkened our rooms, lit the hurricane lamps. at the cross, trussed like a christmas tree, a few men gathered, white as angels in their gowns. we darkened our r

some people would say the mississippi delta, but yet you found it. >> las vegas, if you're very, veryhefs well represented have outposts. you can eat spectacularly well. on the other hand, off the strip, there is an anonymous strip mall sort of way out of town in las vegas, there is some good food to be had there. >> mississippi, russia, mexico, thailand, obviously you have amazing choices from all of them. any one of them stand out, sort of a fun or disgusting anecdote? i like those anecdotes always. >> russia, you know under this stretch -- horrifying, all-power leader -- >> i wonder to whom you are referring. >> has become a very interesting place. >> you know, i'm curious, in discussion a few years ago i went to buy, i was on a shoot, right? i am not a food aficionado, i was starving, we said we were going to get food at one of the stands on the street. instead of a soda, they like their alcohol. did you have fun with their -- could you keep up with them? you know, i have seen women at night out drinking a whole bottle of vodka straight. >> any russian grandmother in russia can dr

i had the chance this weekend to spend some time in my wife's hometown in the mississippi delta, one of the poorer parts of the country. it has been for a very long time. a tough place in a lot of ways. we've -- we have a lot of great family that are there. after we finished visiting there, we went over to memphis to visit the civil rights museum which has just reopened. if anybody has the chance to go, they should go to visit it, because what you see is the history of a struggle from the 1600's forward, generation upon generation trying to perfect this country and keep it true to the idea that in this case we're all created equal, and for -- for a long time, we weren't able to perfect that. we still haven't perfected it. we're making progress, and that's what we're meant to do. today we have that chance. the house has that chance tomorrow or next week or next month to make sure that we honor our commitment, this generation's commitment to a generation of immigrants and to the generations that are coming after them, and i hope that they'll take up that challenge. mr. president, with

lightning lit up another stormy night in the south with hundred us of reported strikes from the mississippi deltatouching down. it's touching down. >> reporter: more than 130 twisters reported since sunday. from kansas. >> did you see what happened to our house? >> reporter: -- to north carolina. >> we ran into the house. and trying to hurry up and get everybody in the bathroom. >> reporter: but a branch which hit this house came crashing in. the human toll is growing with more than 30 people dead, among them john servati a swimmer at the university of alabama. friends say he died a hero holding up a concrete wall long enough for his girlfriend to get out from under it before it collapsed on him. >> john did great things every day. of the fact that he does that did not surprise me. >> reporter: and did wassom, an iraq war veteran shields his two young daughters. >> he loved his girls, loved his wife. >> reporter: wassom's father found his son's photo in the wreckage. >> man, he was a good boy, guys. i wish you knew him. >> reporter: in pearl, mississippi, angie coleman took us through what's left

mississippi hard. >> it has been said if you could take the delta out of mississippi the numbers would go way up, yourom -- from what you are seeing, and that is true. >> reporter: for some strong parenting overcomes poverty. this librarian is putting her daughter through college and enrolled her grandson in a reading program at 3 months. >> learning to read and becoming educated at an early age is very crucial, because it gets our people out of their cycle of poverty. >> reporter: this is a state agency aimed at preschoolers in day care centers. >> children soak up everything you give them. >> reporter: the program has lifted reading rates, but operates in just a few dozen of the state's 1700 day care centers on a budget of $3 million, about 1% of the state's budget for prisons. in the rest of the state people can hope for season like cilia ward. >> you pay your bills and there is nothing left. so what do you do? wait. >> reporter: sure. but the strain is showing. john hen drin, al jazeera, morehead, mississippi. >>> it has now found a new home in washington, d.c. a skeleton is part of a new dinosau

lightning lit up another stormy night in the south with hundreds of reported strikes from the mississippi delta up into georgia. >> it's touching down. it's touching down. >> more than 130 twisters reported since sunday. from kansas -- >> why did this have to happen to our house? >> to north carolina. >> we were running from one end of the house to the other trying to get everybody in the bathroom. >> but a branch which hit this house came crashing in. the human toll is growing with more than 30 people dead. among them, john servati, a swimmer at the university of alabama. friends say he died a hero, by holding up a concrete wall long enough for his girlfriend to get out from under it before it collapsed again on him. >> john was a hero every day. just constantly doing great things. so the fact that he did that doesn't surprise me at all. >> daniel wassom's heroism was never in doubt. an iraq war veteran, his final brave act, shielding his two young daughters from falling debris. >> he really loved those girls. loved his wife. what a great son he was. >> his father found his son's wedding photo

mississippi last with literally along with nelson mandela among the 50 american states. fewer have it worse than morehe morehead. >> the gap geeptzing wider between richer and poorer. >> if you could take the delta of mississippi, the numbers would go way up from what you see. >> that's true. >> for some, strong parenting overcomes poverty. librarian valerie feri is putting her daughter tatiana in college and her grandson in a reading program at three months. she dead indicated book to him. >> learning to read, to be educated at an early age is very crucial because it gets people out of their cycle of poverty. >> for others, there are some state programs. april may runs mississippi buildingblocks, a state agencies aimed at children in day cares. >> children like that are a sponge. they soak up everything you give them. >> where it operates, the program has lifted reading rates. it operates in just a few dozen of the state's 170 o'day care centers on a budget of $3 million, about 1% of the state's budget for prisons. in the rest of the state, parents can hope for someone like celia ward. >> they are real. what do you do? >> with the strain showing. john henry, al jazeera, moorhead, mississippi. >

we have a tornado watch in effect for delta mississippi down into texas in effect until noon. there are thunderstorm watches but no tornado warnings. through the day, the day time heating will destabilize the atmosphere. it's heavy rainfall coming down along portions of i-20. if you don't have to travel in this area, probably a good idea to hold off. we are seeing a wide counter clockwise situation, the area of low pressure help to go trigger thunderstorm activity. on the backside of it, we have much cooler air. that has produced snow into the mountainous areas of colorado. we'll get the push of drier air coming in behind it. the threat of severe weather will shift to the east. tuesday, it's going to include parts of the ohio valley down into the southeast, so atlanta, you will need to be on guard tonight into tuesday, as we talk about the rain coming along with it, it's going to be heavy at times. that is why we do have a number of flood warnings and advisories posted all across the southeast, some areas three to five inches of rainfall. >> the u.s. and seven world powers are

new orleans along with the rest of the region is built on a delta created over centuries by sentiment deposits from the mouth of the mississippi river into the gulf. but it's vulnerable to hurricanes which has more than once devastated the area. in the 19 30's engineers built a system of levies triggering the demise of the state's wetlands. ten years ago all of this water behind me was once marsh land. but now it's gone. and in its place the bamboo poles mark where the wetlands used to be. from the air you can see the erosion made worse by the state's oil and gas industry. the marsh lands have been carved into straight edge canals. this allowed seawater to flood the delta's fragile estuaries. from the air they document the damage. >> the erosion brings in saltwater intrusion. it's like poison for that marsh. >> reporter: permit agreements are supposed to require oil and gas companies to restore the wetlands once work is complete. but it's legislation poorly enforced in the poverty stricken state industry jobs are the priority. roughly 90% of louisiana coast line has been eroaded. plans now in place to stop the land loss, but i

of new orleans, along with the rest of the region, is built on a delta created over centuries deposited from the mouth of the mississippiiver into the gulf but it's vulnerable to hurricanes which have more than once devastated the area. in the 1930s, engineers built a system of leafies to protect the city. in turn, triggering the demise of the state's wetlands. >> 10 years ago, all of this water behind me was marshland. now, it's gone and in its place, these bamboo polls mark where the wetlands used to be. from the air, you can see the erosion made worse by the state's oil and gas industry. the marshland's natural nooks and crannies have been carved into straight-edge cables to help fossil fuel extration. in the from the air, jonathan henderson documents the damage this brings in a lot of salt water intrusion and brackish marsh. >> is like poison for that marsh. >> permit agreements are supposed to require oil and gas companies to restore the wetlands once work is complete. it's legislation which has been poorly enforced in a historically poverty-stricken state, industry jobs are the priority. roughly 90% of louisiana's

new orleans along with the rest of the region is built on a delta, created over centuries by sediment, fro depod from the mouth of the mississippiiver. in the 19 30's engineers built a system of levies to protect the city. in turn triggering the demise of the state's we had lands. ten years ago all of this water behind me was once marsh land, but now it's gone. and in its place these bamboo poles par mark where the wetland used to be. >> reporter: in the air you can see the erosion made worse by the state's oil and gas industry. the nooks and crannies have been carved into straight edge canals to help fossil fuel extraction. this will allow sea ward to flood the estuaries. from the air jonathan harrison documents the damage. >> a lot of saltwater intrusion. that saltwater is poison for that marsh. >> reporter: permit agreements are supposed to require oil and gas companies to restore the wetlands once it's work is complete , but it's been poorly enforced. industry jobs are the priority. roughly 90% of louisiana's coast line has been eroded. the plans now in place to stop the land loss but it's expected to cost more than $50 bill

the mississippi river we are talking about and the thread because i have a friend in florence, alabama, and i was going down to see her at the same time we were making these trips to the deltan writing these songs, and she taught me to sew. >> this is her work here? but this is her work. as she was dreading my needle, she said, you have to love the thread. i got tears in my eyes. it moved me so much. she wasn't speaking in metaphors, but i heard it that way. that thread is passed and your family and your geography. to love theave thread. i don't speak and lyrics. your friend does. -- i don't speak in lyrics. do you love the thread? how did you come to love the thread? >> that's a big question. got time. >> i do love the thread. when you are young you are so invested in pushing away, finding out who you are apart from your house -- your past and your family and geography. in middle age i want to know eign all that seem for or uncomfortable to me. i want to know what it all is. all is,'t know what it my children won't know what it all is. i'm a new yorker for 23 years. my son is a fifth-generation new yorker, and yet to generation backs we were cotton farmers. that's importan