Remarks from three former president s, george w. Bush, bill clinton, and barack obama. Live coverage is here on cspan3. Amen. This is john lewis favorite poem, invictus. Out of the night that covers me, black as a pit from pole to pole, i think whatever god may be to my inconquerable soul. In the fell clutches of circumstance, i have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeons of chance, my head is bloody, but im bound. Beyond this place looms but the horror of the shade. And yet menace of the years finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how straight the gate, how charged with punishment the scroll, im the master of my fate. Im the captain of my soul. John lewis was my hero and my friend, lets honor him by getting in good trouble. [ applause ] only the inconquerable spirit and the magnanimous soul of john lewis could summon all of us together in this place at this time. Only john lewis could compel three living american president s to come to this house of god. To celebra
Decision of the United States Supreme Court batting segregation in public transportation. My street mate on that Greyhound Bus you must understand in 1961 black people and white people could be seated together. When you get out of washington to travel to virginia to North Carolina, alabama, mississippi, wewere on our way to new orleans. So we didnt have any problems for the most part until we got to rockville. And a little place in charlotte North Carolina, it was a sizable city, a young africanamerican man attempted to get a shoeshine in a socalled white barbershop that was in a socalled white waiting room. He was arrested and taken to jail. The next day the jury dismissed the charges against him but my seatmate and two of us arrived at the Greyhound Bus station in South Carolina and a group of white men met us in the doorway and started beating us and left us lying in a pool of blood and the local officials came up and wanted to know whether we wanted to press charges andwe said no ,
University of North Carolina. Parents were my parents walther b gaither and fanny little gaither. Uh, great falls was my fathers home. My mother, fannie mae, was originally from anderson, South Carolina and my mom and dad met while they were students at friendship. College in rock hill, South Carolina. After they both graduated from friendship they moved permanently to great falls. Initially they were both schoolteachers. You could be a schoolteacher at that time with just a Junior College education. My dad did not stay in teaching because he discovered that what was listed on his contract as is per month payment for teaching was not the same as he this was thatand a time when the boards of education were all composed of white men. And so at the end of the year, my father approached the person who signed his voucher for, uh, payment and said, i noticed that there is a discrepancy here. Differenceve dollars between what he was supposed to be paid and what he was receiving. For questioni
That live all over the country. And we feel that is significant we continue to do the programming we already have scheduled. As we move through this historic time. Meant to help us focus on the movement for black lives and if you want to contribute in 1960 through 2015 we have the editor here with a lifelong collaborator and having some technical difficulties we will get to some q a. We will just enjoy some time with michael and get him on the line as well. The editor of multiple books so i just want to bring you one. And when he starts talking he will take up the screen. Can you hear me okay . That is a chokehold for me for trying to find organically is much as we can living in atlanta for several years i love the city quite a bit. A person on the screen but under speaker versus gallery view and lets talk about the george floyd protest is timely to say the least. And doctor king during this period. This must be they yearly 1970s so maybe then we can go to those. Now from pages 56 to 5
But most end up in which the government thinks deep into the german culture of looking at stereotypes a question that is think the future of the country that im not playing. Lead it seems to take the most drama day out to you thus its all that a box im a joke join me to meet the german sunday. Post. Keep your distance and wear a mask its the advice thats been given to millions of people around the world and following that recommendation has become for many the norm. But others refuse to comply when. Suddenly. Theyre pointing at. 6 months into the pandemic the use of face masks is still up for debate so is the recommended approach is still the way to go. Welcome to your code 19 special here on the w im Chris Culliver in berlin these fun tired of breathing through them you might be as well but Scientists Say wearing face masks is imperative when trying to slow the spread of the corona and then theres the us nowhere is the discussion around mask wearing probably as polarizing as in the Un