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Was black, charles enrolled at morehouse, where he tapped into the power of nonviolent activism. his first protest started as a sit-in against segregated lunch counters and ended in a jail cell. what did you learn during that jail sentence? >> i learned to live with myself under those circumstances and i developed a certain strength to go along with it. and also, doing some of the things that we did, some of the actions we took, when we probably didnt have to do it, and we did so because we were...

Congresswoman karen because who helped engineer it through the house and passed, senator booker was in the senate. they all knew this. the president met with the floyd family, with civil rights leaders so all of a sudden we are now told were going to do this, this, this. a critical issue. they knew that was unacceptable. >> a sticking point? >> like sitting at the lunch counters, check in a hotel but cant sit in front of the bus. whos playing with this is those that are trying to reshape what th...

For a long time. james gannon is a freelance journalist, and also a relative of robert e lee. he described the significance of the statue. its important to remember the historical context in which this statue was erected. but a little after a decade after the end of the civil war, the north had won the war, but had failed in their policy of reconstruction to rebuild the south into a more equal society. once they had withdrawn, the same people _ once they had withdrawn, the same people that were ...

Reverend dr. martin luther king junior. he single handedly blocked the emmett till anti-lynching bill last summer. also back in 2010 demurred if he would have voted for the 1964 rights act. he then expanded on his views in an intervie with rachel maddow. >> how about desegregaing lunch counters? >> what it gets into is if you decide that restaurants are publicly owned and not privately owned, does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant or does the government own his restaurant? these are...

Change the name of their party. they may be desperate to pretend their party has progressed from the days of supporting slavery, supporting jim crow laws. today the democratic party doubled down on what i consider the shameful history by replacing the racism of the past with the racism of the critical race theory. americas not a racist country. america must reject critical race theory for the simple reason, state sponsored racism is wrong and always will be. it was wrong when it was segregated l...

Cried with over the last seven years since jordan was murdered. >> each generation culturally has a cause. sitting at the lunch counters, you know, walking out of classrooms. its the same thing. this is the civil rights movement that these young people are fighting for. >> change is here. >> we need a congress that goes out there and talks about this issue and gives us a deadline of when theyre going to actually like be able to stop gun violence. >> he graduated in 2018 and taking a year off to ...

Of the republican part of this partisan era really do go back to that point. what they would tell you if they were here talking about it was that it was senator kennedys speech on judge bork the day the bork nomination was announced. and he said robert borks america is an america of segregated lunch counters, et cetera. so theres a period, late reagan through clinton and the gingrich takeover in 1994 where a lot of the immediate precedent for the world we live in rests. >> this is why we needed ...

Partisan era really do go back to that point. what they would tell you if they were here and talking about it was that it was senator kennedys speech on judge bork, the day that the bork nomination was announced. and he said robert borks america is an america of segregated lunch counters, et cetera. so theres this period really late reagan through clinton and the gingrich takeover in 1994 where a lot of the immediate precedent for the world we live in rests. >> this is why we needed to have you ...

Were not going to listen. were simply going to stop it. when you pull back the historic string on this, the beginnings of the republican part of this partisan era really do go back to that point. what they would tell you if they were here talking about it was that it was senator kennedys speech on judge bork the day the bork nomination was announced. and he said robert borks america is an america of segregated lunch counters, et cetera. so theres a period, late reagan through clinton and the gin...

Ending the evil of one man owning another. and then a century later came another moral victory with the civil rights movement and the passage of the bill to end separate water fountains, white-only department store lunch counters and white-only restaurants and hotels. after that came the voting rights act. in each of these cases, the countrys majority population backed the moral course, ending slavery, ending jim crow, ending the deprivation of voter rights, and we now face another historic poin...