so, sncc argued that the right to express dissent was a keystone of democracy.members of sncc mobilized and supported him, and he eventually required to stand for re-election while he had an unseeded and his constituents backed him up. they supported him. he was reelected. they remained loyal to him. in the meantime, howard moore filed a lawsuit challenging his expulsion and ultimately he won. moore in a team of lawyers prevailed. his activism there yielded an important supreme court decision upholding the first amendment rights of elected officials. which is one reason among many that surely howard moore jr. deserves to be remembered. and now, let's consider the third wave of dissenters who in my book are personified by welfare rights activist and a lawyer who represented them. now, third wave of dissenters really ring the book full circle, because just as the students have challenged the first wave, these pragmatists, the third wave challenge the students. in fact, they challenged the entire society. but in my book, ethel mae matthews who is shown on the cover

she was on the student nonviolent coordinating committee better known as sncc. she takes part in a documentary about the freedom riders. it airs next month on pbs. a conversation with diane nash coming up right now. >> all i know is his name is james, and he needs extra help with his reading. >> i am james. >> yes. >> to everyone making a difference -- >> thank you. >> you help us all live better. >> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. with every question and every answer. nationwide insurance is proud to join tavis in working to improve financial literacy and remove obstacles to economic empowerment one conversation at a time. nationwide is on your side. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. [captioning made possible by kcet public television] tavis: an honor to welcome diane nash to this program. in the early 1960's she became a key figure in the civil rights movement as a student at fisk university. she led an toast desegregate bus stations in the south. this marks the 50th anniversary over the freedom riders. t

will the sncc the quality-of-life better for the folks in st. petersburg?of the answer is yes you should do it and if the answer is no you probably shouldn't do it even if every but he wants you to do it so you run through the filter and in our case that is the mission and we have five ways to get there. one is to make it safer and improve public safety. number two is improve your neighborhoods. number three is participate in improving your schools which was the radical idea when i ran for the city and i will tell you why in a second. member for is economic diplomat and economic development has to be across-the-board. number five is improving the city services and operations which it talked about when running the business of the city. those are the five components. identify the five strategies and i promise you every manager in our government can tell you those five principles at any time they were asked to read i promise you because of righetti understood that was our objective. as a public safety, we did a lot of things mayor goldsmith that mayor giuliani

so what i would like to do is focus on particular on sncc and other ways of lawyers and activists who contributed -- who are unsung and who contributed to the history of the movement. i take a bottom-up perspective on constitutional law. and what i'd like to do this afternoon is discuss three-ways of unsung lawyers and activists who i argue in my book contributed to the civil rights movement in important ways. the first point i want to emphasize is that all of these dissenters, and i style all of these people dissenters have the same overarching goals of equality. but they had different priorities and tactics for achieving equality. they defined equality in different ways. the first wave of dissenters were pragmatists. i call them pragmatists because they wanted to challenge jim crow, but without destroying the social and economic capital that the black middle class had built in segregation. who are some of these pragmatists. they were some of the black college presidents in atlanta, many african-american teachers who were the lion's share of the black middle class. and they also incl