so carlos montez, if you would come on up as well. finally, i will introduce our third panelist who is or our moderator who is the wonderful -- who work here at the american folklife center of the library of congress where is a senior specialist. he looks after our civil rights history project. so gupta. [applause] >> good morning. vicki for coming out today on a rainy afternoon -- thank you for coming out on a rainy afternoon washington, d.c. carlos forhank flying off from california to be here. has been to believe it nine years since i first interviewed both of them for my book that came up 8 years later, back in 2005 when i first trekked out to california, new mexico, and colorado to speak with them and some other folks. oral history became the core of the book. so, what i plan to do today is to briefly sketch out the story poor people marched on washington in what was dr. martin luther king's final crusade. so, you may have noticed that we are in the season of civil rights anniversaries. as the opening introduction to the entire s

so carlos montez, if you could come up as well. and finally our moderator, who of course works here at the american folk life center at the library of congress and he looks after our civil rights history project. >>> good morning. thank you for coming out today on a rainy afternoon or morning here in d.c. it seems like fall is here now. and i want to thank carlos for flying out from california to be here today, and for maria's great keynote. it's hard to believe it's been nine years since i first interviewed both of them for my book that came out, i guess, eight years later, back in 2005 when i first trekked out to california, new mexico and colorado to speak with them and some other folks and the oral history is that, in a lot of ways became the core of the book. so what i plan to do today is to briefly sketch out the story of when poor people marched on washington and what was dr. martin luther king's last crusade, the one he was working on in the last six months of his life. you may have noticed that we are in the season of civi

. >> for people who do want to sleep on their backs, we brought in montez.if you snore a lot or if you're pregnant, you actually shouldn't be sleeping on your back. so, montez has things to help train you to sleep on your side. >> side, okay. >> if you do want to sleep on your back, just note, a big fluffy pillow and another pillow under your knees can be helpful to help with your back, but if you can't be sleeping on your back, this is what you should be doing. as you can see, montez has a pocket on backwards. so, we're going to put a tennis ball in it. he's also wearing a fanny pack, and you don't have to do both. and this is a really big fanny pack. if you want to sleep on your side and a lot of them have spouses poking them and you want to sleep on your side -- montez, why don't you lay down for a moment. >> that's to prompt him to turn. >> so, i'm guessing that's not comfortable. and it will teach you to go back on your side if you roll over. you can do the same thing with a tennis ball and a fanny pack. >> willie's a stomach sleeper, at least right now