behind montgomery in selma, there was a vision for a beloved community. tavis: the new book is called " on god's side, what religion forbids and the public has not learned about serving." good to have you on the program. that is our show for tonight. thanks for watching. until next time, keep the faith. >> for more information on today's show, visit tavis smiley at pbs.org. tavis: hi, i'm tavis smiley. join me next time for a conversation with carol burnett about her new book which celebrates her daughter. that is next time. we will see you then. >> there is a saying that dr. king had that said there is always the right time to do the right thing. i just try to live my life every day by doing the right thing. we know that we are only halfway to completely eliminate hunger, and we have a lot of work to do. walmart committed $2 billion to fighting hunger in the u.s. as we work together, we can stamp hunger out. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> be more. pbs. >>> hello and welcome to this is us. i'm becka king r

before any sit in, before any sit in at a theater, before any march whether it was a march from selma to montgomery or the freedom ride or the march on washington we studied and we prepared ourselves. we studied the philosophy and the disciplindisciplin e of nonviolence. we studied what gandhi attempted to do in south africa. we studied what he accomplished in india. we studied the role of disobedience and we studied the great religions of the world. and when it was time for the young people to sit in, we did. many of us use nonviolence not simply as a technique or but it as a way of life in the way of living. we wanted as dr. king was there the soul of america to create a beloved community. you heard in the introduction i did get arrested a few times. 40 times. during the 60s but since i've been in congress i got arrested four more times around the issues of south africa and around what was going on in sudan. but we never gave up during those days. we never gave in. them. we never gave out in spite of being beaten, left bloody and unconscious, having a concussion on that ridge. i sti

trachel and selma-- selma from the peabody school. please stand up. i love teachers. i think they make an amazing difference in the lives of kids. time, we have analyzed the data from the test of columbia and compared it to the other states that have state-supported programs. d.c. ranks number 14 percentage of children served. for fundingnumber 1 per child. what is happening is that that is the public commitment we need throughout the nation. thank you very much. that me end by handing it off to jack brennan. one aspect of early education that is often overlooked is that many of the nation's business leaders are strong supporters of quality preschool programs. they know early learning puts our children on a path to becoming the well-prepared workforce they really need. jack is the chairman emeritus chairmanthe vanguard group. he served as chairman from 1996- 2009. thank you very much, jack. >> thank you very much. the advantage of the last before thanka -- one more thing you for this work. i'm here to represent the beneficiaries of the investments. one of the great th

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king the winning to selma and women to monopolist and went into a dozen other places, people like willie bolden and j.d. johnson. i never got a chance to meet james orange but i did come had the privilege of interviewing andrew some years ago, that man of gentle defiance. he reminds us it was the own people on the streets of birmingham who made flesh the theories at the dr. king put forward in the letter from birmingham jail. when he talked about extremist be love and justice, it was all the people in the alabama christian movement for human rights and james r. and andrew mrsa and all those young people, and we can't forget, let history forget what they did as well. in this audience on a course that a lot of time rehashing the dramatic details of the freedom struggle, but it do need to set the context before get into the letter and don't try to do this pretty quickly. because when i'm done i'm going to make sure that with some questions with jim and diane but we also want to get to those of you in the audience. so what is that history? the mass means vibrating with the sound of on my way

he criticized the priests and nun who poured into selma to support the demonstrators. but study, if you will, what bishop perry did when he went to nashville. he was under the influence of archbishop -- [inaudible] who was with saturating is regaitionist views even though he opened many -- [inaudible] okay? but study the archbishop when he went to -- [inaudible] he was -- >> right. i want to, i'll just say a quick word because i know jim wants to follow the order of the questions. but i do give a great deal of respect to dorrick, because he ended up understanding -- that's, it is true, the eight clergy were not all the same. and, you know, there was the callous bishop carpenter whose response was inexcusable, and there was dorrick who became -- he understood. he said i was against segregation, but i didn't understand it the way dr. king meant it. and he went on to really embody the prophetic ministry of king. and at his, after king was killed, he preached the words, the create tyke teak of moderates -- the critique of moderates at the commemoration. and because king lo