he lived in appalachia and mississippi delta and on native american reservations, among farmworkers whoe way to the township of south africa still growing under apartheid. did he ever once give up his plan? or his tribe? no. he said what does that have to do with if we can live together or if we have to knowledge our common enemy is more important in our differences? and he did something unusual for a politician back then you cannot check every word every day he said the same thing everywhere he went. [laughter] he would go into a working class neighborhood and tell them exactly the same thing and say in the poor neighborhood. he would stand in the synagogue to say the same thing that he would say at the knights of columbus meeting. and if we had had the muslim population back then he would have gone to them and said you two can be part of america if you share our values and vision 17 the native americans american indians, 90 tribes for his work with them gave him a tribal name. his braveheart took him to california a 200-mile trip across appalachia to see the shacks where parents strug

rights, championing the poor, and destitute, living in third world conditions in apple asia, the mississippi delta, challenging south africa's students to chat -- stand up against apartheid, or organizing , his life was dedicated to helping others. when our nation seemed poised on the brink of tearing itself apart, there was bobby kennedy, preaching a message of love, of wisdom, and compassion to one another. . message of reunification a message of reconciliation. this, his efforts to take that vision, that vion of wisdom and compassion and reconciliation to the presidency, never happened, because that opportunity was cut short by an assassin's bullet. that happened just after bobby kennedy left oregon and flew down to california. weeks after i had the opportunity to see him speak at a high school gymnasium, andid not seize the moment to do it. as bobby kennedy said in his speech to the city club of cleveland, our lives on this planet are too short. the work to be done is too great. but we cannot let that stop us from working together to seek and build a new world. we will never know whether rober

inress of a child's face the shop and house in the mississippi delta.lter of a coal miner in eastern kentucky. a small piece of bread he shared in the dusty fields. father, son, brother. husband and uncle. a family home adorned to this day with photos of loved ones, and sillys, weddings, moments and grandkids and great grandkids. ever-growing, love ever enduring. of his extraordinary wife and partner, 50 years after his passing still wears her wedding ring. [applause] with a family who strives every day to make him proud. those images accumulate here today. chicana spirit, of john lewis, a brother and mentor. onzalez and her army of young activists. -- such fear list words of the future my grandfather imagined. robert f kennedy, this was a measure of a life well lived. connections, a touch and a look, in the moment ,etween strangers and friends where we leave aside expectations and ego ended -- and acknowledge each other's worth and wisdom, where we posit and see each other. when we look past color or creed or class, to recognize a humanity we all share

he lived it in appalachia and n mississippi delta, in watson , on native american reservations, amongrkers who had no one else to look after them, then all the way to the townships of south africa, still groaning under apartheid. did he ever once give up his clan? or his tripe? no. he said, what has that got to do with whether we can live together? what has that got to do with whether we have to acknowledge that our common humanity is even more important than our interesting differences. and he did something unusual for a politician back then when you couldn't check every word every day. he actually said the same thing verywhere he went. he would go into a working class neighborhood and tell them exactly the same thing. he would say in a poor neighborhood of african americans. he would stand in the synagogue and say the same thing he would say at a knights of columbus meeting. and if we had had a large muslim population back then, he would have gone to them and said you, too, can be part of america if you share our values and our vision. [applause] the native americans literally the n

the first man who tried to shape the mississippi delta area was la salle. he tried come back to try to establish a permanent settlement in america. that was la salle's seconds ill-fated voyage. nearly all of the settlers and his crew died from sickness and starve vacation. when they got into the gulf of mexico, they overshot the mississippi river's mouth and ended up off of texas and mat dord -- matagorda bache. at that point one of the ships it a sandbar and began to sink and it yielded this that we have generously on loan from ver sigh in france. we think this is the ship that sunk during la salle's voyage. this is a romantic depics of his voyage. you see the ships he was arriving on, the crew attempting to disembark into exas and over here you can see native tribes that were attempting to push them back. we've moved to about 14 years later and there are people that want to try again. pierre lemoine, the son of a canadian fur tripper wants to france to louis xiv of to petition to build around the gulf of mexico and the mississippi river. his is his river

life of the outstretched fist.not the clinched he lived in appalachia and mississippi delta, on nativeservations, among farmworkers who had no one else to look after them, and all the to the townships of south africa, still groaning under .partheid did he ever wants give up his clan or his tribe? no. what does that have to do with if we can live together? what does that have to do with acknowledging our common humanity or our interesting differences? and he did something unusual for a politician back then, when you could not check every word every day -- he actually said the same thing everywhere he went. [laughter] president clinton: he would go into a working class neighborhood and tell them exactly the same thing and say -- same thing he would say in a poor neighborhood of african-americans. he would stand in the synagogue and say the same thing he would say at a knights of columbus meeting. and if we had had a large muslim population back then, he would have gone to them and said, "you, too, can be part of america if you share our values and our vision. -- and our vision." [applaus

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who did the native americans in the mississippi delta think they would have to replace in order to create cotton plantations? not ae i'm pretty sure whole weren't interested in planting cotton. know, most of the native american participation in the war is from what is today oklahoma, then the indian territory, and people east of the mississippi who are mostly in the north. iroquois.gneca, in the upper midwest in minnesota, native peoples are probably watching the war thinking this is great, they are going to leave us alone for a little while. and again, this in part goes , at the end of the war, where do these great heroes who emancipated the slaves and destroyed slavery, where do they end up? the end up fighting the nas perce war. ironies are tragic and sad everywhere. audience member: it's interesting when we look back, we don't realize but the confederacy sent out diplomats, diplomatic relations, to recruit the native americans. they were just choosing size, they said we are going to promise you certain things if you fight for the confederacy. so you had that going on as well, a delibe

is the mississippi delta new orleans is located in this area in here and most of this land surface has been disappearing over the last thirty years and our projections ours this will disappear in the next ten twenty thirty years it will be gone and so when this disappears water from a hurricane could more readily impact the city of new orleans so the cities on the delta are at risk all of them. i mean without question and they're part of the list of one hundred thirty six areas at risk if we look at the twentieth century in many ways that probably for many cities the substance has been much much more important than climate and to sea level rise because we're talking about meters of change when the sea has risen maybe seventeen twenty centimeters in the twentieth century in the twenty first century we expect much more climate into three level rise and climate and you see the rise will affect every coastal city not just the ones that have subsiding so we expect we expect sea level rise in the twenty first century to be much much more important than it has been historically substance and

language, the images that tell his story best, the caress of a child's face, a shotgun house in the mississippi deltads on the shoulder of coal miner in eastern kentucky. a small piece of bread shared with cesar chavez in the dusty fields. a son, a a father, brother, a husband, an uncle. of a family home, adorned to this day with photos of loved ones, graduations, weddings, silly moments, grandkids, great grandkids. his brood ever-growing, his love ever enduring. host: you can watch the entire ceremony at 11:00 p.m. eastern tonight. american history tv, only sees -- only on c-span3. >> next on american history tv, author gregory fontenot discusses his book, "the 1st infantry division and the u.s. army transformed: road to victory in desert storm, 1970 to 1991." colonel fontenot, a tank battalion commander during the 1991 gulf war, focuses on the changes the division went through after the vietnam war and how those innovations helped them engage and defeat at least a dozen iraqi divisions during "operation desert storm." the kansas city public library hosted this hour-long event. steven: good evening

the rapid prejudice racism, i came along and learned as you moved forward in the work in the mississippi deltater in jackson, mississippi. medgar and i moved first to town formed by former slaves. medgar was first african american to apply for admission in university of mississippi, fact-checker at the nation found some other person said, maybe perhaps he was the second but mrs. ever thought it was the first so i kept that first although in the nation you'll see it's the second, whatever the accomplishment the willingness to do that is still the same. he applied to the law school and went to visit with e.j. stringer, president of mississippi strait conference to talk about the conference supporting him in admittance instead they talk today him into taking position of field secretary for naacp and opening office in jackson, a very, very interesting time. it was not only typing organizing events or celebrations or even the sad things to acknowledge people who had been hurt, who had been killed, i did research for his speeches. i even learned some of them. we were behind the cotton curtain becaus

think about him, i think about the fact he was willing to go a app lash ya, willing to go to the mississippi deltaut of his car and meet with people in south afr a africa. in the 60's. as a a par thied was strong. the ability for leaders to be connected to movements, to listen to everyday people on the ground, and to work to make justice real, is something we need more than ever in this country. folks that are willing to listen, to think, and to read. we need that, and in rfk's legacy for all of us who do social justice work. >> always great to speak to you. tomorrow, join us for special coverage as we lead up to the summit in singapore. president trump arriving tomorrow morning. we'll be live with the impact of that meeting. and we'll be right back. older, your brain naturally begins to change which may cause trouble with recall. - learning from him is great... when i can keep up! - anncr: thankfully, prevagen helps your brain and improves memory. - dad's got all the answers. - anncr: prevagen is now the number-one-selling brain health supplement in drug stores nationwide. - she outsmarts me ever

kennedy, whose tour of the mississippi delta was a pivotal part of what led us to resurrection city. peter, tell us about the genesis of that moment. and bring us a little back to the time because of course, we wash -- do to be a h inwant to be awas nostalgia, but history counts in history matters. but take us back, and give us a sense of what that meant. peter: well, thank you very much. first of all, i want to say thank you very much to lonnie bunch and jackie, and everyone associated with this. it is so important to us and our family in a personal way. but to bring this back now is just vital and so important for our country. so thank you, to everybody who played this happened today. -- who made this happen today. i am a little bit like zoellick zelig" in this story, if you remember woody allen. it is true, as you say, that we had met in mississippi earlier in 1957, and that did end at that stage of our lives by getting married. and we are coming to 50 years 50er this year, so it is years for us in a very personal way. but the relevance to our thatrsation today is marian had gotte

and it was the mississippi delta. and fading eyes. he came home from that night. he said a home where there were two families making home smaller than a dining room, and there was only one meal a day of rice and the children went to bed hungry. he said when we grew older that he wanted to make sure that we spent our lives making sure that didn't happen in america. >> the person who told the story in the document he said you've got to do something about this. in addition to that there's such a fascination with your family. 50, 55, 60 years after all of these events took place, of course the movie chappaquiddick is in theaters right now. have you seen the movie? have you heard about the movie? what are your thoughts about it? >> i wouldn't watch that movie. not because it's about a very difficult time, that was a very free, probably the lowest point in my families history, and challenged i think a lot of the ways that we saw each other and caused a lot of dissension in my family last a long time. i wouldn't go to see dramatizations in general about my family because

mississippi williams since he was born in: this, mississippi and spent those early years in the mississippi deltand he said if i had called myself mississippi williams my friends would have called me ms. williams and he didn't want that so instead they called him 10 or his first big literary success with the glass menagerie, and he worked on that here. he actually wrote a full script for its when he was in hollywood, hoping they would make a movie of it. it was called "the gentleman caller" and of course it was too advanced for them in hollywood, too literary for them, so they wouldn't to do it. his agent managed to get it placed with the right people, and that was in the early 40s. just after the period of living in new orleans. he actually made a considerable amount of money off that play. >> across from it, 632 and a half, to be exact is the address where tennessee williams completed "a streetcar named desire", his most famous play, but it's also where he got the inspiration for its title. he said when he was upstairs on the third floor he would listen to the old streetcar passing by and it st

over in the mississippi delta and impover rgsed area as you all know, and actually a second location that's in the delta as we call it in vicksburg. i'll talk a minute more about that in a few minutes. we already have 130 plus candidates for the 60 positions that's starting in june. so we're feeling good about that. >> perhaps we can expound more on that during questioning. >> yes, sir, we could. >> dr. oh, you are recognized. >> chairman whitker, ranking member schatz and members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to testify today on the app community and mobile technology trends. my name is sarah oh and i'm a research fellow at the technology research institute. the app economy is an important source of economic growth. as an economist my primary concern is growth in business formation, jobs, research development and economic opportunity. apps create new markets and make existing markets more efficient. thereby promoting growth. however, some app innovation has raised questions related to privacy, connectivity and artificial intelligence. the right policy responses

the shock and house in the mississippi delta. a clear minor in eastern kentucky. a small piece of bread shared --h caesar saw this best cesar chavez. father, son, brother, husband, and uncle. adoring to this day with photos of loved ones, graduations, ,eddings, silly moments grandkids, great grandkids. love ever enduring. >> you can watch the entire ceremony tonight. , only onhistory tv c-span3. c-span, where history unfolds daily. as a79 c-span was created public service by america's cable television company. and we continue to bring you unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court, and public policy events inand we d.c. and around the co. sunday on cue and day, new york times columnist talks about his church, popege the francis, and the future of catholicism. >> he thinks the church needs to change in various ways. particularly around marriage and so forth. these are changes the church can't make. he has clashed with cardinals how far he and just can push the church to change and what the church can change. or breaking face with the new te

mississippi williams since he was born in columbus mississippi, and spent those early years in the mississippi deltand he said if i had called myself mississippi williams, my friends would of called me ms. williams. and he didn't want that so instead they called him ten. his first big literary success was "the glass menagerie." he worked on that here. he actually wrote a full script for it when he was in hollywood hoping they would make a movie of it, called a gentleman caller, and, of course, it was too advanced that in hollywood, to literary for them so they wouldn't do it. his agent managed to get it placed with the right people, and that was in the early 40s, just after the time of living in new orleans. he actually made a considerable amount of money off that book. >> this is the big dress wear tennessee williams -- address ere tennessee williams completed "a streetcar named desire," his most famous play. but it's also where he got the inspiration for its title. he said as he was up there on the third floor he would listen to the old rattling, rumbling streetcar passed by, and it struck him tha

these projects are critical for the economy in the mississippi delta. i commend chairman simpson for his leadership in increasing water infrastructure funding, since he has been chairman of the energy and water. this bill provides significant increases in the additional funding pots for both construction and operation and maintenance. this additional funding will increase the opportunities for worthy projects to compete for limited dollars. although i intend to withdraw my amendment, congress should continue to provide more funding to projects across the country that improve commerce, grow the economy, and that protect home and businesses from -- homes and businesses from flooding. harvey: to work with chairman simp -- i hope to work with chairman sitchson and his committee to address the issue -- simpson and his committee to address the issue moving forward. with, that -- with that, i reserve the balance of my time. mr. simpson: i claim time in opposition. the chair: without objection, the gentleman is recognized. mr. simpson: when the appropriations c

robert kennedy, the rich man's son has come to mississippi, the poorest state in the union to see the rural side of poverty. >> how did, the trip to the deltaome about. >> by miracle. a young lawyer working with the poor in mississippi was there with kennedy in april, 1967, and knew the power of the people he was meeting. >> robert kennedy and john kennedy's pictures. >> edelman says he was not prepared to like him because as attorney general kennedy had authorized the wiretapping of martin luther king jr. in 1963. still, there kennedy was. in mississippi, putting poverty on the map. >> he was just shocked. >> good luck. >> peter edelman who would meet maryann on the trip and would later marry her. a kennedy aide. >> you see, children with swelling bellies. i have been in third, fourth world countries and haven't seen anything as terrible as this. >> for a citizen living here in the state of mississippi doing reasonably well, you don't run up against this kind of poverty. >> i watched him interact with children. the thing that i grew to like most about him to see that he was really absorbing it was his touch. he would rub a child's cheek. a

rights, championing the poor and destitute, living in third-world conditions in ap laich ya, the mississippi delta, challenging south africa students to stand up against apartheid or organizing to end the war in vietnam. his life was dedicated to helping others. when our nation seemed poised on the brink of tearing itself apart, there was bobby kennedy preaching a message of love, of wisdom and compassion to one another. a message of reunification, a message of reconciliation. but with all this, his efforts to take that vision, that vision of wisdom and compassion and reconciliation to the presidency never happened because that opportunity was cut short by an assassin's bullet. that happened just after bobby kennedy left oregon and flew down to california, just two weeks after i had the opportunity to see him speak at a high school gymnasium and didn't seize the moment to do it. as bobby kennedy said in his speech to the city club of cleveland, our lives on this planet are too short. the work to be done is too great. but we cannot let that stop us if working together to seek and build a new world.