It is really wonderful for us to have john and i back the Carter Library you know it has just been several years since jonathan was here. He was here for the book, a book about jackie robinson. And thats been probably seven or eight years since then. And whats really neat is that jonathan had decided to kick off his tour for his new book. His book just came out yesterday and that here at the jimmy president ial library, which is really, i think, great. This is his sixth book. Hes just as i said about jackie robinson, lou gehrig, muhammad, al capone as as the foursome who really did the push to get the approval of the Birth Control pill. But the thing that the thing that you see in jonathans writing is an amount of research that goes into it. And i think he comes by that naturally his dad was accountant so a stickler for details and his mom was a community activist. And so if you think about and think about the subjects hes written, jackie robinson, mohammed ali, Martin Luther king, i t
And thats been probably seven or eight years since then. And whats really neat is that jonathan had decided to kick off his tour for his new book. His book just came out yesterday and that here at the jimmy president ial library, which is really, i think, great. This is his sixth book. Hes just as i said about jackie robinson, lou gehrig, muhammad, al capone as as the foursome who really did the push to get the approval of the Birth Control pill. But the thing that the thing that you see in jonathans writing is an amount of research that goes into it. And i think he comes by that naturally his dad was accountant so a stickler for details and his mom was a community activist. And so if you think about and think about the subjects hes written, jackie robinson, mohammed ali, Martin Luther king, i think he gets that from her. Well, hes been a reporter at the new orleans timespicayune, dallas morning news, chicago magazine, the wall street journal. He has taught at Columbia College and lect
To get his education, housing and property bills passed before he goes back to Voter Registration because he just got a Voting Rights bill passed the previous year. He tells dr. King, there are two things you can do for me. One, find the worst example you can of voter intimidation, and get it in the papers, he says. Get it on the tv. The other thing is, help me get my other legislation passed. If you have seen the movie selma, it paints the president s role as a little bit more of a villain than the phone calls will. Help us remind people how pervasive, how numerous the barriers to Voter Registration were for black citizens in the south. Im not sure how many have seen the movie. What you see is a quintessential example of what it was like throughout the south. I was a part of the Mississippi Movement of sncc. In the movie you will see that sncc had been in selma, as it had been in other parts of the south for a long time, and when things got to the point where it looks like there was g
Utterly stumped. They believed it was a perfect machine of to that point in time. It was a very wellkept secret. If theres a lesson you can take from this, its one thing that everyone of responsibility should know. Be careful of the word impossible. When 70 says somethings impossible and theres a lot riding on a coming need to check it out. Be careful of your assumptions. If you dont investigate what you believe to be the truth, you can meet with devastating consequences. The germans believed the machines we demonstrated was perfect and can never be broken but thats not the case. Thankfully, for the rest of the world, they paid a very high price. It always pays to check out your assumptions. You are watching American History tv all weekend, every weekend on cspan3. To join the conversation, like us on facebook at the span history. Tonight is the Academy Awards ceremony and the movie selma has been nominated for best picture. Next, congresswoman Eleanor Holmes norton and cbs news corres
Consequences. The germans believed that the machine we demonstrated couldnt was perfect and could never be broken. That wasnt the case and for the rest of the world it pays a high price. It always pays to check out your assumptions. You are watching American History tv. All weekend and every weekend on cspan three three to join the conversation, like us on facebook at cspan history. Coming up next, congresswoman Eleanor Norton and cbs White House Correspondent bill platt look back on the Civil Rights Movement and the struggle for Voting Rights 50 years out of the protests. They discussed the film, selma, and the fraternal of events. The 50 minute event was held by the museum in washington dc. Hello, and welcome. This is the first inside media of 2015. I will be your host for the program that highlights the exhibit. This is a feature that we began back in 2013 and we take a look at, march on washington. Were looking back on another marched that led to a major civil rights victory. Some