wells in montgomery. today we are focusing on the montgomery bus boycott. i want to put it in the time line that i showed you last time. we have the brown versus board of education decision in may of 1954. then we have brown versus board of education two, the following year, in may of 19 5. then the emmett till lynching in august of 1955. i don't think a lot of people realized how close to the till lynching that the montgomery bus boycott was. you have rosa parks being arrested on december 1st of 1955. that was a thursday. then the following monday, on december 5th. the montgomery bus boycott begins. all right? so that's just a little bit of context for you. to put it in a visual form. and so we are going to use the readings today to consider -- to consider the bus boycott. and these readings give you a lot of information about events and circumstances leading up to but not so much information necessarily about the boycott. so we will also talk about that. and we can continue that conversation in our next -- in our next lecture as well and certainly if peop

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joining us now is montgomery mayor steven reed. mr.ing time to come back and keep us updated tonight. thank you so much. >> thank you for having me. >> tell us about your decision to implement this mask requirement in montgomery. the state obviously doesn't have a mask requirement. your city council montgomery wouldn't vote for one earlier this week, although it sounds like if they took the vote again now, it might pass. but you've made the decision now to do this by executive order. tell us about that decision. >> well, rachel, the decision was one that i've gone back and forth with over the last couple of months, to be honest with you. i've really thought this was needed sometime ago, but i was trying to work with the city council and build a consensus among them to see what was needed. and we could not get that unfortunately, and a couple of weeks ago i was going to bring it up on the agenda and i did not have the votes at that time. and i told them if we didn't see the numbers flattening, if we did not see a decline in hospitalizat

here in montgomery, they were very peaceful.ul, and we made it our priority to hear exactly what their complaints were and what changes they wanted to see. so i think that we will see some of those -- the impact of those protests in the upcoming days. what i think we see right now is this being a wedge issue unfortunately, and some people choosing to abide by the social distancing guidelines and others who are not. and unfortunately if you're in the grocery store, if you're out and about, you don't know who's asymptomatic or who's pre-symptomatic, or who is symptomatic. what we know is not enough people are wearing masks. not enough people are staying at home. and we cannot sustain this rate of infection that is going on not only in montgomery but in other parts of alabama. >> mayor steven reed of the great city of montgomery, really appreciate you taking the time to join us again, sir. you are one of the most hard-hit cities in the country. keep us apprised. we want to keep a national focus on what's going on there. good luck t

cases in montgomery county still on the rise, unabated them arrow shows where montgomery was three weeksatever they were hoping to engender in terms of slowing the virus in montgomery county, it did not happen. look at the day by day cases. still spikes in montgomery coun county. as for hospitalizations, this is from the alabama reporter. quote, combined the four major hospitals in montgomery are treating more positive patients as of tuesday this week than at any point since the pandemic began. here's the head of the alabama hospital association. quote, we're just full. i mean, this situation is just not sustainable. the filling up and spilling over of hospitals in alabama, specifically in montgomery, the steady rise in new cases, also comes as people have been gathering on the street of montgomery and elsewhere in alabama over the death of george floyd, protest of police violence and racial justice. multiple protest haves added a new layer. . montgomery's mayor stephanen re joins us once again, next. again. so, when you get a check... you can deposit it from here. and you can see your t

he joins me from montgomery, alabama.r we get to the mask ordinance, i want you to tell us gshow bad are thn montgomery county at the moment? councilman cun:hings are really that in montgomery. as i look at theumbers today, we are up about 1033 cases within the first three weeks in we leave the state right now in d co lead the state right now in covid-19 cases. we were just looking at what is working because what we are doing working. that was the order that i propose for our city council. katty: what made youo convinced tt proposing mandatory mask wearing and public would help the situation in montgomery? councilman calhoun: bed on the medical experts within the city of montgomerynd listening to the cdc, the issues iids that ty m tasitakkse if we canit get ts throughout the state to just wear a face covering or mask. just listened to the s -- just listening to the expert talk with us and the council, i thought it was the right thing to do to save lives. we are trying to se lives, keep people healthy and get back to almos

well, here's the front page of the montgomery advertiser today. virus infections rise among alabama prison staff. here's the lead coronavirus story at alabama live right now. hospitals in several alabama cities now seeing all-time highs in coronavirus patients. quote, the number of covid-19 patients in hospitals in birmingham, tuscaloosa, montgomery, and decatur has hit all-time highs this month, filling beds and taxing staff as the state struggles with the wave of new cases. that's alabama. here's the front page at "the arizona republic" tonight. arizona reports record high new covid cases. then here's their big front-page feature story today. headline, "i am taken aback. here's why arizona's covid-19 trajectory is concerning." here's the lede of that story. from the perspective of arizona emergency room physician dr dr. murtaza akhter, he says, quote, i am taken aback. i was walked into the hospital today, and i was like, oh, my god. the doctor, who works at both florence hoils and valley wise health medical center in feex, says, quotes, we are

[laughter] she would take care of it the reason why montgomery did the afterschool programs and teach people and dressed to the nines and never swore, the only agreement is that i would let her read the book before publication when the final galley was done just for her no editorial comment she called me and my wife and the kids were born and said i have one thing that you call my husband raymond a heavy drinker. not an alcoholic it was generational and she didn't like that term. so that was one of those things there are disadvantages about writing about a living because you don't want to hurt them but this experience for me uplifted my life 11, 13, 14 -year-old they all studied rosa parks in school i get to go there and say you can make a difference. stand up for what you believe and stand up and great people can be everyday people and i think it's important to remember president and world leaders and mrs. parks is a great lesson. >> that's a great story. >> as i think of the influence on young people for all historians one way is also through fiction or movies those are badly distor

montgomery must stand up like new york have done.ou let the people know that we are citizens here and they are in charge of some of our lives. when you come down the covid-19. i think they have dropped the ball. and the fact -- i call it truth over the facts. the facts is wearing a mask would slow down covid-19. and they have turned a deaf ear the expert and i can only imagine the worst is jet to come. >> thank you for coming on. i am so sorry for what your family is going through. >> i thank you for your condolences. thank you so much. >>> next, the head coach of the atlanta hawks will join me live to talk about his role in the protests for racial equality. hear what changes he's calling for. and you'll see the heated exchange on the house floor today. make banking easier. deposit checks, check balances, pay bills, and more. explore all you can do with our digital tools from almost anywhere. pnc bank. from almost anywhere. ♪when you have nausea, ♪upset stomach, diarrheaon,♪ pepto bismol coats and soothes your stomach for fast relief

>> i think the hospitals in montgomery are really being challenged right now.considerably smaller than the icus we have here at uab. they're being very much maxed out. their ventilators are being maxed out, and equally important, their staff. so people aren't paying attention to the much that health care workforce is not an exhaustive supply. you can ship ventilators in, but the people working really hard to care for these patients are facing serious xexhaustion, not to mention the psychstress of s. in birmingham, we're doing type. we've had a steady census of people with covid-19 between 40 and 65 since march. it feels like ground hog day here. you get up and you see the same thing. i couldn't be surprised if we see an increase if this trend continues and we start to see people being transferred from other parts of the state where they can't be adequately cared for this those hospitals we're talking about. >> doctor, we've been watching alabama as closely as we can from here. please come back. we would like to be apprised how things go. good luck to you and yo

montgomery gave the negro the tactic of economic boycott.wledge of his strength. developed a method for sustaining enthusiasm during a long struggle. it told the nation and the world , and nixon, who nominated king "we made asays, guess and we got moses," for perhaps washington, more than ayone else, has made king leader. >> i have given thought to this, feeling on with the that this is a righteous cause and that we will have to suffer in this cause, and that if physical death is the price some must pay for the price i must pay to free my children and the children of my brothers and sisters and my white brothers from a psychological death, then nothing can be, then nothing can be more redemptive. i have always believed unearned suffering is redemptive. if a man has not discovered something so precious that he would die for it, he does not have much to live for. >> in 1960, 4 african-american students sat down at a segregated woolworth lunch counter in greensboro, north carolina, launching a civil rights movement that would spread to other ci

joining me now, montgomery mayor, steven rhee. the first african-american mayor in a place known as the birthplace of the civil rights movement. first on the pandemic, i've been looking at the daily confirmed new cases in montgomery county, alabama, over the last few weeks. and really, just no drop at all. in some cases, a little bit of a rise over the last week. why? >> i think it's because we opened up too soon. i think that we have covid fatigue right now, and people are trying to fast forward this process in order to get things back to the way they were before the covid-19 pandemic really changed everything in this country, if not the world. >> there was one picture, i think, that may illustrate a little bit of what you're saying. it's vice president mike pence, who was in charge of the coronavirus task force. he tweeted out a picture of him visiting the trump campaign headquarters. i think we have that picture, and he's surrounded by a crowd of people not wearing masks, not in any way social distancing. is this what you mean

>> i saw him come to montgomery over a several years' periol.y wouw the civil rights trail and spend time in montgomery. as a young member of the department i would see him and wonder why has never acknowledged the injustices that occurred here and thought if i ever become police chief, i'm going to change that. then the day did arrive when they were to comto montgomery for the annual tour and not tell anybody, i did not want it to be a political act, i wanted it to be sincere and heartfelt, and the respect that i have for congressman lewis is immeasurable. >> reporter: well, he's told me he has the same for you. in your days as a police officer, you asked questions. what kind of questions did you ask and what kind of responses did you get? >> i found that a lot of the officers who had really lived through that era, particularly the white officers, were very ctant and uncomfortable with talking about it. >> reporter: so when you became cwhat steps didou take to change what you saw as the wrong? >> one of the first things i implemented as the new

montgomery was not disturbed.ill had their lessons to learn. old and proud of what it considered its good race relations, and it was not an evil city. it did not realize that negroes demanding better treatment could no longer be treated as teenagers demanding the right to stay out after 9:30. the city did not budge. they waited for the boycott to collapse or for negro leaders to quarrel among themselves and fall out. that did not happen. mass meetings kept negroes informed and their spirits lifted. then came the threats. then the white community learned that the negro community was not afraid. klan meetings were held in crosses burn, and the jokes circulated that every negro seamstress in town was working overtime sewing up bedsheets for her white customers. the supreme court outlawed segregation on the buses. montgomery gave the negro the tactic of economic boycott. it provided him a knowledge of his strength. developed a method for sustaining enthusiasm during a long struggle. it told the nation and the world, a

the most greatly impacted ellison barber now in our series inequality in america >> reporter: in montgomery, alabama a heated debate over requiring masks in a city hit hard by the coronavirus. >> i've been against the whole mask thing. >> i have a duty to wear a mask in public. >> reporter: as the cases in alabama have surged montgomery county has suffered most especially african-americans who make up nearly 72% of all coronavirus cases. and more than 60% of the deaths dr. nina nelson garrett says many icus are at capacity. >> this has been horrific because in spite of everything that my colleagues are doing nothing is working. >> reporter: william boyd already lost five family members now his brother has the virus and is fighting for his life. >> reporter: what is your message to people who still might not wear a mask, despite the ordinance? >> coronavirus is real don't wait until death knock at your door mask up, practice social distancing, wash your hands. >> this stuff is attacking our community. >> reporter: we join doctors pleading with the city council this week to make wearing a mas

the problem is 161,000 votes in my county and montgomery county applied for the ballots. it's the first time that we have had that opportunity. the estimated perhaps maybe 20 or 30,000 based on the absentee ballots so instead a whopping 161,000 who seek a mail-in ballot. some of the problems that we have experienced is that for some it went out by market mail instead of being marked priority mail. those that are not familiar it is the same type of postage that with the fan mail, delaying its

. >> dana: let's bring in marcus jones, chief of police in montgomery county, maryland, who was also promising to make changes in his department. what kind of changes do you think you want to implement their? >> the first thing is what we did not have as we did not have an intervention policy that we have begun talking about last year, but due to covid and some other issues we were not able to get across. so we have come to an agreement with our union, and we are going to be implementing that policy within the next week or so creative so that is one of the first things. >> dana: can you explain that? could you explain what that means, intervention? >> so the intervention policy means that what we are going to require our officers to still do is the situation such as

then we have the emmett till, the montgomery bus boycott.hey show us both the tragedies of the movement, right? the everyday realities for african-americans, but also the possibilities of a movement. studentsor those young , they were tired, they were frustrated. i know that the greensboro four mentioned that they were not only motivated the death of emmett till, by the montgomery bus boycott, but also king had come to speak at their college in 1958. and listening to him speak about nonviolence and listening to him speak about the injustices of the world, really motivated these young men. they weren't alone. while they are having this conversation at their university, the women at bennett college, which is a historically black women's college, they are having similar conversations. there is an energy, there is a conversation going on. this seems to be the moment in which to do it. we are also at a moment whether federal government is arguably more supportive of civil rights than it had been, probably since reconstruction. tose years between

at envy hair designs in montgomery, it's required for cuomers, too. tasha curry is the owner. >> you know, everybody has to ar a mask, and then we'r making everybody sanitize as soon as they walk in the door. i'm right up on them when i'm cutting their hair and i'm doing the hair. t make sure i keep my mask on, and make sure they keep-- they must make sure they keep their mask . >> yang: on the streets of montgomery, mayor reed wants to require masks in public, but ys a majority of the city council opposes it. >> we have to do it because ofe the suat we've seen in cases in montgomery. and more importantly, it is impacting, disproporely, black people in this city, in a r gion that has a high num people with undesuying health and other illnesses that make them mo susceptible to suffering more seriously from covid-19 virus. >> yang: as leaders d health care workers confront this current rise in cases, they worry about what could sti be ahead. >> if we saw another surge, we would really have to work on thinking through alternative methods to protect our h

then we have the emmett till in montgomery bus boycott.gediesus both the of the movement, the realities and everyday realities for african americans. also the possibilities. of a movement. so for those young students i think they were tired. they were frustrated. fourw the greensboro mentioned they were not only motivated by the death of emmett till, and the montgomery bus boycott, but king had come to speak at their college in 1958. listening to him speak about nonviolence, and listening to him speak about the injustices of the world, really motivated these young men. and they were not alone. while they are having this conversation at their university, the women over at bennett college, a historically black women's college, they are is an energy and a conversation going on and this seems to be the moment in which to do it. we are also at a moment where the federal government is arguably more supportive of civil rights that it had been probably since the reconstruction, those years between 1855-1877. host: how long did the greensboro sit i

how's it impacting the folks in montgomery? >> well, what people want to see us do is talk less, listen more, and then act on what they are saying with us. that's why the protests have been as organized, why they have been as continuous over these last few weeks because i think leaders in the past have not listened enough and have not implemented enough changes when it comes to police reform. we still train our police to use force. we don't train them well now not how to use force, in particularly deadly force when it comes to black men and black women in particular. we have to do a much better job across this country and it starts certainly with those that we hire, how we train, and the policies that we ultimately implement. >> yeah. you're absolutely right. you're getting advice, i understand frrks t understand, from the founder of the equal justice initiative. has it been a catalyst for you to take a proactive approach in your city? >> absolutely. already things we wanted to do but certainly after the killing of george floyd

renee montgomery. the best to you. thank you for your time this morning. a great conversation. >> thank you for having me. >>> if you're interested in more conversations like this, don lemon is taking on some really hard conversations about being black in america. and the conversation that so many people, black and people who are not, are having in this country. this is a new cnn podcast "silence is not an option." find it on apple podcast, or your favorite podcast app. >>> you know, the pandemic that really hit sports hard this week. a lot of major leagues trying to find a way back. major league baseball hasn't even started playing but they already shut down all of its spring training facilities in florida and arizona after at least 14 players tested positive. >> and the league had been hoping to restart the season in august. >> and cases keep stacking up around college sports. more than a dozen major colleges have reported cases. clemson, the latest with 28 cases. >> all this, while president trump, he takes a swipe at dr. anthony fauci for his comments

why not montgomery, tuskegee or birmingham? evergreen is a small community. that is why he started practicing medicine. there was an outbreak of the flu. this gentleman came to the home and said dr. franklin, my wife is dying. please help me. he did. what he found out is, they would keep the house closed up, which meant that they kept all the germs inside. he had them open the windows and continued to work with the patient. ultimately, he was well. there had been a lot of people dying in the community. when people started seeing her again, they were asking the husband, my, how did she survive? he said, dr. franklin came out to see her. they said, dr. franklin? the black doctor? they said, oh no. a black man cannot touch a white woman. the man ultimately got dr. franklin on the train. he had two children and they came south and got off in africa town. that is how he got to mobile. once he got here, he started practicing. a lot of the patients were from -- he was here in 1914. ultimately, he moved his practice down on the other end of dr. martin luther king bou

so, joe, we all understand and empathize with those doctors in montgomery, alabama. we're worried it's going to happen in our zip codes, because it's already happened in places like seattle, and i'm about to enter a shift in seattle where the icu's already filled. we don't have much capacity. so, this is a five-alarm fire here, and we need the president and the vice president to acknowledge that instead of trying to encourage governors to say, hey, by the way, it's all good, talk to your citizens about testing being potentially the reason why you're seeing increased cases. >> and mika, let's be very clear. we've been talking on this show for some time about the need to reopen, to reopen businesses, but to reopen them safely. >> yeah. >> and you know, i went in this weekend. i ordered takeout for breakfast. jack and i went over. and this place has it where you can pick it up outside, and so you don't have to go in and be around people. but you do have to go in, get your drink, which i wanted an orange juice. so i walked in, had my n-95 mask on, got it, walked out. and

he had mobile representatives in montgomery, -- we had mobile representatives in montgomery and everything was working like it was used to as far as a democracy. then the most profound thing onpened -- when the guys sat the train car in the new orleans and said i'm going to covington and they said "you cannot sit here." that case goes all the way to the supreme court. ferguson.lexi versus the decision was "separate but equal." at the time blocks were considered -- blacks were considered colored. this first car will be for whites, this last car will be for coloreds. separate but equal. right after that we had jim crow laws. entrancentrance, white , colored restaurant, white restaurant. then we had the ku klux klan that intimidated african-americans from voting. the men whomost of had weapons were the confederate soldiers so they became the policeman. then they created all of these laws like watering. -- like loitering. if you are standing on the street corner you could be arrested. stateended the constitution to say if you were incarcerated you could be subcontract to doubt for labor, which

specifically without telling the stories of the black freedom movement, i'm so glad you brought up montgomery because i think so many people look at queer history increased activism in a vacuum which is unfortunate because if you're only looking at individuals and trends within isolated my normandy that was overwhelmingly white, then you're missing a large part of the story which is how, when and why they were drawing and borrowing from the other movements, one thing that a lot of generations don't know about, montgomery, rosa parks was not just the victim of persecution, she was chosen by the organizers because of her status as a very morally sound figure within the community, they rejected another potential victim because i believe she had been -- she was pregnant. for me too give them the credit of saying the black freedom movement recognizes the power, respectability of reclaiming morality for themselves and that's something that frank did a few years later after green burro, the citizens went on a visual level, you see the students dress very properly sitting peacefully at the counters w

, alabama. >> i think the hospitals in montgomery are really being challenged right now. ventilators are being maxed out. equally important, their staff. so i think people aren't paying attention enough to the fact that, you know, health care workforce is not an inexhaustible supply. the people who are working really, really hard to care for these patients are facing serious exhaustion, not to mention the psychological stress of seeing patients do i. die. >> let's bring in dr. david rubin, a physician and director at policy lab at the children's hospital of philadelphia. dr. rubin, thanks so much for being with us. we're seeing these spikes. we're still in the first wave of this pandemic as it moves to the southeast and the southwest. it's clearly a result of the reopening that we're seeing these spikes, correct? >> sure. i mean, i want to qualify that, that, you know, reopening itself is -- you know, we would expect some increased transmission. we need to differentiate what reopening safely and not safely looks like. and even as we're seeing major risks now throughout th

we had alabama, mobile representatives in montgomery in d.c. we had u.s. and local senators and everything was working like it was supposed to as far as a democracy. then the most profound thing that we remembered that happened was when the guy sat on the bus, the train car in new orleans, and said i'm going to covington and they said you can't sit here. he was an african-american. they said you can't sit here. he says oh, yes, i can. no, yes. that case goes to the supreme court. that was plessy versus ferguson. the decision was separate but equal. at the time, black were considered -- we're going to put the first train car for whites, the one on the back is for colors. it's separate and equal, but you can't sit with us. and that started just an enormous amount of different disparities because right after that we had the jim crow laws. the jim crow laws, colored entrance, white entrance. colored restaurant, white restaurant. then we had the ku klux klan that intimidated african-americans from voting. well in alabama, most of the men that had weapons were t

why not montgomery or tuskegee, or mobile, or birmingham? evergreen is a small community. that is where he started practicing medicine and there was an outbreak of flu. this gentleman came to his home and said, doctor franklin, my wife is dying. please come help me. he did. when he found out was that they would keep the house all closed up, which meant that they kept all the germs inside, and so he had them open the windows and continue to work with the patient. ultimately, she was well. there were a lot of people dying in the community. when people were starting to see -- they were asking the husband, how did she survive the problem? he said well, doctor franklin came out to see her. he said doctor franklin? you mean the black doctor? he said yes. they said, oh no? a black man cannot touch a white woman. they were coming to kill him. they were going to lynch him. the husband tried to control them but he couldn't. so he ultimately got doctor franklin on the train. at the time he had two children, and they came south. they got off in africatown and that is how he got to mob

>> a council member in montgomery county, maryland, where this took place.nk you for joining us, will. i mean, i know my reaction to the video about how surprised i am, especially where this took place. what was your reaction? >> well, obviously, disgusted, scared. as a parent myself, i know you know this, just angry that someone would put their hands on someone's child like that. but then also determined, and i'm glad our police, montgomery county police, i spoke to the police chief, they're on their way to identifying this suspect and working very hard, but it was just shocking. i mean, i think in this video, you see both the problem and the solution related to racism, which is a public health crisis in this country, i'm introducing a resolution this week saying that, it's a public health crisis in montgomery crisis but you see young people who are trying to work to find systemic solutions to racism and honor george floyd and his death, not be in vain and then you have someone displaying their hatred, their anger so much about what they were posting that t

the montgomery advertiser highlights some of those bases. po is namedl after a bishopk of the episcopal diocese of louisiana who became a confederate general. after colonelamed edmund rucker given the honorary title of general. it goes on to say that during the battle of nashville in 1864, he was wounded and captured. he was later the ku klux klan first grand wizard. again, more of that available if you go to the montgomery advertiser to learn more about the base is named after confederacy generals. is supportive of the efforts, hi. caller: we had this discussion before about the statues put up in the face of people that were suffering in those times and decided, it would be good to take down those studies. what about a place like vicksburg? the you know what is in the national park in vicksburg? for those who don't, it is all union monuments and union dead. there is no confederate there. after the war, that is what the country did. they put those monuments in the south to let them know, hey, we countries., not two so are we going to dig up

and then rosa parks initiates this movement, the montgomery bus boycott movement, which lasts a year. between the end of that movement and 1960, very little had changed. i think that there is -- there was a generation of students and these are a generation of students who would have been the tt tillit till -- emme till was brutally lynched and murdered. they understand when they go in the store the rules for them are different. when they go to get something to eat the lunch counter in itself was a symbol of white supremacy. theas a symbol of how country, and the marketplace, how these stores tried to keep them in second class citizenship. guest,racy parker is our thestant professor in department of african-american studies at the university of massachusetts-amherst. we are talking about the lunch counter protests in this hour. we are joined by our friends on c-span3. all phone are split up regionally. -- our phones are split up regionally. we would love to hear from you as we go through this hour of " washington journal." professor parker, why did this movement become the one that is

i'm glad you wrote out montgomery. i think so many especially queer history and queer activism in a vacuum which is unfortunate because if you are only looking at these individuals and these trends within an isolated minority group that was overwhelmingly white, then you are missing a large part of the story which is how and when and why they were drawing and borrowing from these other movements. so a lot of people, especially younger generations don't know about montgomery for example is rosa parks was not just a victi victim. she was consciously chose dungeon chosen by the organizers, including king, because of her status severely morally sound figure in the community. because i believe she was pregnant. so need to give them the credit of saying the black freedom movement recognize the power of respectability of reclaiming morality for themselves and that is something that frank did a few years later, the year after the citizens went on a very visual level you see students dress very properly sitting very peacefully

>>of market and new montgomery this corner is like many corners in downtown san francisco.you can see right here, i'll zoom in. and you can see a lot of windows there or boarded up along that that particular section on market street there's gary delhi that's also boarded up this is new montgomery and you can see as i move the camera around. this is the bank of america building also boarded up and then they also made sure to make. >>george floyd's name prominent throughout san francisco. so you can clearly see this was the destruction and the business is doing preventative measures to make sure that their windows we're not shattered, although there were some windows that i did see that were shattered and had to be boarded up now let me show you video of the weekend and the protests there what's going on. >>i can tell you in the overnight hours 80 people were arrested that's because mayor london breed's he issued a state of emergency declaring that people had to go home and stay inside starting at 8 o'clock at night. all the way until 5 o'clock in the morning because she did

when i was suddenly catapulted into the leadership of the test in montgomery, alabama a few years ago i felt we would be supported by the white church redeveloped into ministers and priests and rabbis of the south would be among our strongest allies. instead, some have been outright opponents. refusing to understand the freedom movement. misrepresenting his leaders. all too many others have been more cautious than courageous. have remained silent behind the anesthetizing security of stained-glass windows. ca in spite of my shattered dreams, came to birmingham with the hope the white religious leadership seek justice for cause and with deep moral conviction, which are in the channel that are just grievances could reach the power structures. i hope that each of youct can understand but again i have been disappointed. i heard numerous southern religious leaders admonish therefore shivers to apply with the desegregation decision because is the law. by long her the white ministers to declare this degree because integration is morally right and because negro is yourid brother. in the midst

montgomery bus boycott was 382 days and they were not going to stop. they didn't run out of steam in 382 days. the supreme court ruled those laws of segregation on buses to be unconstitutional and then they stopped. i'm not -- i'm not always sure in our new movements if people have that kind of stamina. they didn't have it on occupy wall street. the women's march didn't have it in the sustained way. they had it -- it was a great moment to see it. but it didn't have it in that way. and there are a lot of things pushing against it in modern culture in that narratives can change very quickly. we have, you know, social media and we have very -- we are very distracted in a way. so i'm waiting to see. i hope that this movement lasts but i can not be sure of that. >> well, often to your point, after a funeral sometimes that feels like a resolution, abby, sometimes people feel as though they move on. but on the flip side, there continues to be what feels like in the morning, at least, an endless stream of the body cam videos that show people of color, men, say

that includes parks part of west montgomery w. montgomery ave . the solid red line show street that are already part of the slow streets program . >>> san francisco 49ers head coach kyle shanahan is opening up about racism and police violence . and offering up his support to former foreign and or colin kaepernick and other ones that have taken a knee during the national anthem . >> i am all for change and protest, i hope the protest cause change i hope whatever we have to do to get the change i am for it . was different now and then, it's embarrassing to say but, i think white people are even more passionate about it now than them . that is our ignorance, that is what it upsets black people, and they have every right to be upset .s 2017 game, where more than 20 players knelt during the anthem . shanahan said he would support the players again if there are more this upcoming season . >>> lgbt q pride month is underway in santa clara the rainbow flag is now flying at city hall, it was raises morning during a ceremony, attended by mayor lisette gilmo

host: let's hear from jason calling from montgomery, alabama on the independent line. caller: good morning. i wanted to comment -- i heard the interview earlier with mr. armstrong, and i have to say that i think drum is a devout comrade. it is hard for him to do anything good when he relishes being such a scumbag and the people around him cosign on it. people who support him do not call him out. it is nice for mr. armstrong to present his position in defense of donald trump in such an elegant way, but the fact is trump is incapable of doing that, and he has shown that. the media laid into it. they have a weird relationship with trump. but the media, they do not doate these headlines, they not force the criminal justice system to sentence black and brown defendants harsher than white defendants. they do not do that. you conduct by the mainstream media playing into it, but there is a larger issue at hand and that is why you see writing. as far -- rioting. whenr as people looting, the conversation devolves and people focus on the rioting and looting instead of what trigge

now, dallas, houston, new new orleans, selma, montgomery.ng progress. >> reverend jackson, you wrote this article that was published on monday and you asked the question, as to whether the outrage that is being felt around the country over the death of george floyd will result in action. let's talk about the action you're calling for specifically when it comes to police departments. you talk about, and we've heard a lot about qualified immunity is something that needs to be addressed within police departments. give us a sense of why that is so important. >> in chicago a few years ago, a guy was shot and killed. police say he was approaching them, attacking them. it came ohahey lied. the police were convicted. when the police was arrested for killing george floyd last week, in the last five years. you have dressed up, disguised as police men and they run away with their power. we need police who care and who live in the community. they are strangers. detroit, baltimore, police should be next door neighbors. >> you mentioned police vigilantes

in the streets as they continue to open more businesses west pacific abby tweener and presidio montgomery between lincoln and sheridan and washington between kobe and lincoln. they are all going to be closed in part so that people get get out and enjoy those businesses. we have all the details on this area on kron 4 dot com. and new york city today is the first day that they're starting to ease their very strict. >>stay at home orders. this is a huge deal for them they were the first and only really at the center of coronavirus the worst hit in the country. so they are finally just starting to get back to work. workers in non essential construction and manufacturing can go back to work some retail can go watch a curbside or in-store pickup. so this is going to send about 400,000 people they estimate back to work still huge blackout including broadway not open yet kron 4 has been telling you about all the changes as they happen with our mobile app so download those and you'll get push alerts when breaking news happens we'll be right back. >>1400's of firefighters are battling the quail fir

our mayor, the mayor of mont gum frid mont gumly would has be montgomery, they're really good but we've had defiance. again there are has been a theme for the whole pandemic. we have had a lack of really comprehensive national leadership and role modeling to help us chart a course out of this pandemic. that's why we're listening to really strong local leaders who are really sitting in the driver's seat because they are responsible to their constituents who are suffering the consequences of not having that leadership at the national level. so thank goodness for those heroes at the community level, for sure. >> doctor, so from all that doctors have learned and every day we talk to folks like you and sanjay gupta who tell us what a steep learning curve it's been and how doctors and scientists have been working overtime to try to save all of us, really. has the disease become -- well, the virus become less deadly in the hospitals in that there are more things that people are tryi trying? remdesivir has been used many in some cases as a treatment. is it looking any better than it was back in

montgomery, of course, that area, gaithersburg, the actions of minneapolis police officers involved in george floyd's death have been condemned by montgomery police themselves and there has been real support at the moment as we watch that story live from gaithersburg, maryland. >>> take a look at nike. up .75% as the sneaker giant takes another strong stance against racism. it comes as protests gain steam in this hour. you're looking live at this march in gaithersburg. nike playing off its long-time motto with a new simple ad. we will show you that ad in a moment. plus, another major voice in big business weighs in on the protests and riots. prominent wall street leader tracy maitland is here live. a man whose family history intertwines with the biggest civil rights leader of all. what he says needs to happen next. it's an interview you must hear. "the claman countdown" is coming right back. in this world where people are staying at home, many of life's moments are being put on hold. at carvana, we understand that for some getting a car just can't wait. that's why the new way to buy an

>>montgomery street between lincoln boulevard and sheridan avenue and washington boulevard between kobe avenue and lincoln boulevard we have more details on street closures on our website kron 4 dot com take a live look outside now at the golden gate bridge with twilight in the air the bridge apparently doesn't know the words so it's been humming a lot lately chief meteorologist lawrence karnow as our forecast lot of wind the last few days towards yeah i mean it has been within around the bay area and guess what starting tomorrow, i'm coming back to the office i can't wait to come back and see you guys actually in person. >>you know one outside tonight, certainly the winds that has been the story as we head into the weekend of course we've seen the fires out there brees continues to blow but those winds are going to start to calm down a little bit overnight tonight. i think so a breezy afternoon tomorrow but not as windy as what we had today still numbers outside got some 50's and some 60's and number 20 below the average today. >>i think those winds yes on issue and sfo 29 miles an hou

. >> community resident and activist candace montgomery is calling for a controversial move. >> we needo move beyond police reform and completely transition away from our policing system right now. that's what justice will look like. >> when you say moving away, are you talking about abolishing police >> yes, absolutely transitions away from the minneapolis police department here locally and investing in community-led safety solutions. >> the shattered remnants of trust and promises of change now laid beneath bundles of flowers, posters, remembrances, a teachable moment many parents find they can't ignore. >> you're 7? that's a hard conversation to have with a 7-year-old. >> it is he knows a little about the unfair treatment of black people in the history of our country. so i think this is a great -- it's really sad that this is our jumping-off point to look at these hard topics, but i think it's really important. if we ignore it, nothing will change if we pretend it's not there and sweep it under the rug, he can't be part of that change, we can't be part of that change. >> a unique com