alvin tillery, john della volpe., i've had the great good fortune in life to get to know john lewis a little bit. and when you sit with him, once you get over the disparity in moral authority, what bowls you over is the hopefulness of that man, who is now by the way in the fight of his life against cancer. i just hope cancer knows what it got itself into. >> yes. i mean i think, you know, mr. lewis is a symbol of hope and freedom for us all to follow, and i hope that the protesters that are in the streets today can borrow the model that he and dr. king and ms. rosa used to translate their activism into change at the polls and in policy. and if that can happen, it will truly be a transformational moment. >> john, with a shout-out to my home county in new jersey, i saw a poll today from monmouth asking people if they're more worried today in effect about racial inequality than they were five years ago. well, there's your result. over three-quarters of us believe discrimination is a problem. and, john, there's your driv

alvin tillry, john -- professor tillery. i've had the great fortune in life to get to know john lewis a little bit. when you sit next to him, get -- who bowls you over is the hopefulness of that man who is now, by the way, in the fight of his life against cancer. i hope cancer knows what it got itself into. >> yes. i mean, i think mr. lewis is a symbol of hope and freedom for us all to follow. i hope that the protesters that are in the streets today can borrow the model that he and dr. king and miss rosa used to translate their activism into change at the polls and in policy. if that can happen, it will truly be a transformation al moment. >> john, with a shoutout to my hoemt county in new jersey, i saw a poll from monmouth asking people if they're more worried today, in effect, about racial inequality than they were five years ago. well, there's your result. over three quarters of us believe discrimination is a problem and john, there's your driver. you were just talking about the generations that came up after us gently op

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really awesome kind of see that people are kind of really seeing on waking up to that in san francisco tillery sackey kron 4 news. >>in the south bay, san jose officials say that the city does not need the national guard to keep the peace. the police department rejected an offer from the state and as kron four's rob fladeboe reports the city is also ending their curfew today. >>daytime protests like this one along lincoln avenue in san jose's willow glen neighborhood have been mostly peaceful. but those occurring after dark like this one outside san jose city hall some protesters testing police and the city's overnight curfew. >>despite that san jose mayor sam liccardo at tuesday's virtual city council meeting revealed that the city has turned down an offer from the governor to send national guard troops to town. thanks but no thanks said the city, here's vice mayor magdalena carrasco i don't think that we need a military state's in additional assistance. >>police department can apple opportunities to come up with new incidentally less on really the last weekend's violence there were some skir

. >> reporter: alvin tillery is head of the center for diversity and democracy at northwestern universityas any time felt quite like this time? >> i think that this is significantly different than other periods of uprising. in large part because of the magnitude of the uprising. young, multiracial crowds. >> reporter: inspired by an image. >> the particular cruelty in which mr. floyd was killed just created a visceral reaction on the part of our nation. >> reporter: in the 20th century, women marched to win the right to vote. workers' rights were won after protests responding to the factory fire killed more than 100 people. >> the one that we know the most about and we associate when we think protest is the movement of dr. king and ms. parks because that was on television. >> reporter: on this week, the clearing of a street near the white house to make room for a presidential photo op. particularly egregious to james clyburn. >> the first amendment gives us the right to petition our government for a redress of our grievances. that's what makes this different. >> reporter: he has lived the

clarke welch and his art tillery observer who was killed in the battle, was a heroic figure and won amedal of honor for what he did in the battle. they were pros, they knew had to do this but they weren't allowed to so. did this because of the fact that they felt they could help save lives and work not allowed to. school in irvington, kentucky. are you there? let me try more time irvington, kentucky. >> caller: sim. >> host: go ahead. >> caller: i was with the second battalion 20th infantry and 66 and 67. you said you've done some research i'd like to know if. [inaudible] got wounded there. if this is the same alan that was in charge of the third platoon bravo company because i was with him on the same battle in billings. >> guest: terry allen junior had been with the battalion before he was the s3 the operations officer for the first few months when he got to vietnam. i don't think he would have been a platoon leader in bravo company. but he would have been with the battalion in july and august and earlier. >> where does the title of the book come from? >> guest: while they marched i