the two that come to mind for me are stokely carmichael and of course martin luther king. what was the participation in the march? >> guest: i think i see james meredith artba the king and stokely -- stokely carmichael is the main characters in for carmichael he sees this as a unique opportunity. he is the new chairman of the student nonviolent coordinating committee which has always been on the progressive vanguard founded a young students pushing for civil rights establishment in new directions. they are really sort of questioning who they are is an organization and want to take themselves in a new direction. they are exceptionally frustrated with what they see as a slow pace is far as federal reforms. they don't want our legislation. enforce the legislation that's on the books. rather than seeing president lyndon johnson as their ally they tend to see them as their enemy. they don't care anymore about lopping white america. they don't care about repealing to the national conscience. they are much more concerned if developing leaders on a grassroots organization so they d

the call for black power is first and third, stokely carmichael unveils if you will way through the march and immediately generates controversy and immediately generate a great swelling of enthusiasm, and in a lot of ways it's a good nights a direction of policies. now those changes might have happened over the course of time. but the march does is it dramatizes the shift because it brought together the civil rights leaders and regular people white and black from all across the country and put them into this laboratory of black politics as it moves through mississippi to create these dramatic moments that highlights the key divisions and some of the key tensions but also the key strengths that have long animated the civil rights movement. >> speaking of dramatizing the march, a lot of people in my generation especially black people, the parents will say you should be grateful for this. we march and then we called them the narrative because they are always complaining about the bunions they don't march in for the things we enjoy now. but for the people that were not there firsthand, what w

martin luther king and stokely carmichael but it happens when you look at the movement on the ground who are the people who are organizing the meetings and who are sort of the glue of the movement picks it is often the one in highlighted that. so in some ways i am trying to merge these approaches in tow the story within th the old civl rights framework in that it is a nonviolent march and to incorporate the ideas of the new civil rights history of aggressive rights organizers shape the movement and international context is important and als also how black power is a much work complicated story and much more positive slogan than the previous to give you another great example of the black power in america. one of the books was waiting until the midnight hour. and he gets us to the black power and with a number of others in terms of its positive aspect. >> can you speak more in detail about the movement itself and responding to the movement >> when we are talking about the idea of grassroots organizing you have to look at the key role particularly for the communiti communities. does the

the thought of malcolm x, stokely carmichael at the time, follows at the movement. various oration. black power -- but after party. not the most famous of the black nationalist group of the late 1960s and 1970s. in my argument, what happened in that confrontation is that a wide start term of american enlightened culture interpreted the black nationalist position through a lens that's all black nationalism as equal to white supremacy yet it's as if the advocates of black nationalism or just like why segregation in any equation was based on the idea that what they share in common was the racist idea that reese made a difference. that it wasn't just an arbitrary characteristic of skin color. so when this lens, all kinds of arbitrary or irrational they said inking about people tend to become equated. so there's an armored equal treatment and be nondiscriminatory, nature regardless of race. that's insane to equate the situation of racial minorities at the situation of women, central minorities. any group is similar to every other group in this respect to the extent they've also been disc

stokely carmichael unveiled midway through the march and generate controversy and immediately generate a great swelling of enthusiasm among many people and the black politics those changes might have happened over the course of time but with the march of it is dramatized the mischief because it brought together civil rights leaders and regular people, white and black from all over the country and put them in the sort of laboratory of black politics through mississippi. mississippi. it created these turmeric moments that highlighted the key divisions into some of the key tensions but also some of the key strengths that have animated the civil rights movement. >> ambassador to the u.s. discussed his country's road to democracy in a discussion held at american university on tuesday. he talks about iraq's political climate, the transformation from dictatorship to democracy in the relationintorelations with the . after remarks he took questions from the audience. this is just over an hour. >> [inaudible conversations] i want to welcome you all here today. i am jen at the school of internati

stokely carmichael unveiled that slogan if you will and immediately it generates controversy and immediatelygenerates a great swelling of enthusiasm among many black people and in a lot of ways it a new direction in black politics. now, those changes might have happened over the course of time anyway but what they did is stereotyped the shift because it brought together the civil rights leaders and people white and black from all across the country and put them into this laboratory of black politics as it moved from mississippi and creativity is dramatic moments that highlighted the divisions in some of the key tensions but also some of the key strengths. for murky pa administrator carol browner leads the climate change discussion of a senior fellow for american progress in talks with the chair of the white house council on economic and environmental quality nancy sutley who spoke on her last day of the job. this is about an hour. >> good morning. welcome. i am carol browner, a distinguished senior fellow, i never know if it is distinguished senior or senior distinguished, here at the americ

the call for black power was first heard and stokely carmichael unveiled that if you will bid way through the march ended immediately generates controversy, it immediately generate a great swelling of enthusiasm among many black people and in many ways it ignites a new direction of politics. those changes might have happened over the course of time. but it was a dramatized miss a shift because it brought together the civil rights leaders and regular people, white and black from all across the country and could -- put this politics and created eastern economic highlighted the key divisions and some of the key tension, but also some of the key strengths that have long animated the movement. >> a look at the civil rights movement after ten eastern and sunday at nine on "after words." >>> the c-span.org website is now mobile friendly. that means you can access our comprehensive coverage of politics, nonfiction books and american history where you want, when you want, and how you want. the news sites defin be fine sco fit any of the screens from the monitor of the desktop computer and smartpho

stokely carmichael unveils out midway through the march ended generate controversy. it generates a great swelling of enthusiasm among many black people. in a lot of ways it ignites a new direction of black politics. know, those changes that have happened over the course of time anyway but what the meredith marsh did was dramatize this shift is about to go civil rights leaders and regular people, white and black from all across the country and put them into this laboratory of black politics as it moves through mississippi. they created all these dramatic moments that highlighted the key divisions, some of the key tensions but also some of the key strengths that have long animated the suppression of it spent public of the civil rights movement saturday night at 10 eastern and sunday at nine on afterwardafterward s. march 2 more about black power and the civil rights movement, your calls, comments and tweets live from noon to 3 p.m. eastern in depth on c-span2's booktv. and apple tv's book club you still time to comment on february's in depth guest bonnie morris, read "