he was an organizer, living and working among poor black people in the mississippi delta and when we think about the black folks in the mississippi delta in the postwar period these are african-americans who oftentimes didn't have birth certificates, would never have certificates of death, many never had left the surrounding confine of the plantations that they were gone and with the student nonviolent coordinating committee was not serving as leaders but provide help for local leadership. fannie lou hamer, we celebrate this past week the 52 anniversary of her speech. .. they wanted to be treated like a decent human beings, and she said that see question america if there was no political representation for american citizens who happen to be to pour into black. what is interesting when we think about stoically carmichael, carmichael is going to be one of the biggest cheerleaders and supporters of fannie lou hamer. you talked about fannie lou hamer in an interview in 1965 as a cargo. the very famous seminary. activist, quarrel the story in an all-around brilliance icon. and he said tha

and i remember the first time i saw it, that's something that had been lifted out of the mississippi delta in 1930's. who lived there? as i was driving you looked a little closer and see puffs of smoke coming out of the roof. and it wasn't someone who lived there. somebody was living here in 2002 and 2003. so one day myself and matt blackhawk a. photographer who is kind of the modern day dorothea lang or walker evans we pulled off the side of the road and came up over the railroad tracks. and we pulled up to this shack and a little better shape and basically a tarpaper shack. and as we walked up we could see that there were rabbit furs that had been -- that were -- ammered onto the wall. i knocked once, twice, this place was on stilts and the door creeked open and there stood this black man who looked like he had been lifted out of the mississippi delta, 1930's. he had a stutter. and later he told us that he came west with a stutter. one state at time. his name is james dixon. 95 and living here and had lived here since the 1940's. he was part of this migration of blacks who did something

>> basically i spent a lot of time over the years visiting mississippi delta.m those days, and as a kid, they visited the uk in the mid-'60s. the most amazing thing i ever saw, the goose bumps and tears, everything i saw from this area, i wanted to visit and visit and visit. normally the momentum of my tours means i'd just pop by. but when i have time on my hands, i really started to study, try and feel what was coming out of the past. it wasn't that great, to be honest. >> you wrote nine of the tracks on this new album? >> with the band, yeah. >> one of them -- this is what you said about love. that you feel exposed and vulnerable when you were doing this album. i want you to talk about it. lyrics to a stolen kiss. i love this. how long has it been like this. lost and found and then lost again. think that's a beautiful, beautiful sentiment. >> i'm not very good holding it down. if you want to be me, charlie, you'd better keep that out of the way. >> the wind came and i fell in love with a woman who greeted me at the sidewalk. >> she's in the green room now. no

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the mississippi delta. what in the world did they do to the mississippi decades ago? it's just endless. that's just wonderful. like a little gift from heaven is c-span. >> continue to let us know what you think about the programs you're watching. call us at 202-626-3400. e-mail us at comments@c-span.org. or send us a tweet @c-span. follow us on facebook and twitter. >>> up next, nato's supreme allied commander in europe on the situation in ukraine, and nato's role in combating the islamic militants known as isis. from the pentagon, this is a half hour. >> thank you for allowing me to come back. it's been a pretty busy, and quite frankly, a historical two months since i was here last. as you know, a lot has changed in europe, particularly in our east. the security environment has changed, and has forced us, along with nato, to reevaluate relationships, and specifically our relationship with russia. the upside is that it also gave us an opportunity to reaffirm to each other in the alliance our steadfast commitment to mutual defense. as i stated the last time i was here,

we have fossil river deltas on mars imagine what the mississippi river delta would look like, you known 10 million years.tas on places that reflect the layerint history of the role of water and wind working together and we'vee seen that mars is pummelled by the stuff of space, our atmosphere shields us but mars isn't and every one of these blemishes now on the order of 250, 300 of them tell us ll basically about the shallow interior of the planet as it is affected by the exogenic world of space. our planet sbing hit by these. you all remember chablinski february 2013. and other events like that. this is common. all the meteor showers, well on mars, they're not showers. they produce impact events. and some of the bigger ones excavate craters the size of football stadiums, to you know,z small cities and they expose the shallow subsurface. and we're realizing that's important.ey what you see on the surface is s not always what you want to see when you measure things on marso about some of these very tough questions we're asking. we're a little far there. we're also -- we've also we discov

we have fossil river deltas, fossil river deltas on mars but imagine what the mississippi river deltaould look like in 10 million years. places that reflect the layering history of the role of water and wood working together. we've seen that mars is pummeled by this stuff a space. our atmosphere shields us but mars is in the everyone of these blemishes not on the order of 250-300 of them tell us basically about the shout interior of the planet as it is affected by the exigencies world of space. our planet has been hit by these things, you would never february. this is common. on mars, they are not showers. they produced impact event. some of the bigger ones excavate craters the size of football stadiums to small cities, and they expose the shallow subsurface. we are realizing that's important. what you see on the surface is not always what you want to see when you measure things on mars about some of these very tough questions we're asking. we've also discovered that mars has gone through major changes in what it's geology is reflected in the rocks. from the time it was whether, when

flood control of the mississippi means control in the great delta.tinent and control of the delta means control of the little rivers and the great arms. flowing down from the uplands. and the old river can be sb controlled. we had the power to take the valley apart. we have the power to put it together again. in 1933, we started. down on the tennessee river when congress created the tennessee valley authority. an authority commissioned to develop navigation, flood control, agriculture, and industry in the valley. a valley that carries more rainfall than any other in the country. the valley through which the tennessee used to roar down to paducah in flood times. with more water than any other tributary of the ohio. swift came the dams. up on the clinch at the head of the river, we built norris dam. a great barrier to hold walter in flood times and release water downriver for navigation in low water season. next, guntersville and pickwick. a series of great boulders that eventually would transform the old tennessee into a link of fresh water pools, loc

delta. mississippi senator john stenas and georgia senator richard russell actually proposed the creation ofary racial relocation commission. this would be a federal body that would encourage what they called equitable distribution ever black residence throughout the nation, right? so we're tired of being challenged on race just get them out of here. one application to the oeo from an african-american poor person in the south i think expresses the counter to that. some people who were evicted have left the county she said and have gone to other areas of the state. yet others have elected to stay in the county and help solve the problems of their native land. these people deserve the right to be given a chance to be productive citizens of their choosing. it's almost a right to be here and not have to go somewhere else. so that's one facet in the south of the war on poverty. the challenges that community action face though made it particularly vulnerable as we've seen. democratic mayors and governors and congress people very angry that federal funds are being used to challenge state and local

mississippi out of new orleans at flood stage. we continue to levee the entire length of the delta.t mud plain that extends from the gulf of mexico clear to the mouth of ohio. the ancient valley built up for centuries by the old river spilling her floods across the bottom of the continent. a mud delta of 40,000 square miles. men and mules, mules and mud. new orleans to baton rouge, naches to vicksburg, memphis to cairo a thousand miles up the river. they brought their blacks and their plows and their cotton over to the river. down through the boom train. down through cumberland gap over from georgia and south carolina. over from the tide water. over from the old cotton land west of the big river. west of the steam boat highway. down the highway to the sea. ♪ corn and oats down the missouri, tobacco and whisky down the ohio. down from pittsburgh, down from st. louis. hemp and potatoes, pork and flour. we send our commerce to the sea. ♪ we made cotton king. we rolled a million bales down the river from liverpool and leads, 1860 we rolled four million bales down the river. rolled them

delta define her. growing up on the family farm provided a strong foundation and work ethic that one only gets in rural mississippi, guided by her loving parents and the constant support of her sisters, martha scott has not only won the admiration of those for whom she has worked but for those who have worked for her. to her husband, robert, we thank you for allowing us to take up so much of her time, especially in this very special year. my colleagues and i owe a debt of gratitude to each and every member of martha scott's family. martha scott's been a part of my staff for 20 years, which means she's been a part of my family for 20 years. she's watched my children mature, my grandchildren grow up, and they have all come to know and love her. she's been an inspiration to so many people, but most importantly she's been an inspiration to me. and while everybody's going to miss her, i'm the one that's going to miss her the most. so, martha scott, to you we say congratulations to life after the senate, but just know how much, number one, we're going to miss you. but secondly, and most importantly, your country's going