Along with Martin Luther king, reverend Fred Shuttlesworth founded the southern christian Leadership Conference in 1957. Up next, brief remarks from reverend shuttlesworth who died in 2011. Then we hear about the impact of his work from an alabama historian. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] now, church right [indiscernible] thered shuttlesworth was black baptist minister who central nerve center of the Civil Rights Movement in birmingham. He was an officer, one of the original officers of kings southern christian Leadership Conference, but they were more in thetes and friends ministry. It is often said the people around king are referred to as kings lieutenants. Shuttlesworth was never a lieutenant in the sense that he never worked for king. Although he was less known. So that the major demonstrations of 1963, which arguably are the watershed events of the Civil Rights Movement, the first really big victory other than the montgomery boycott. Those five weeks of d
Take it. We get this portrait of ellen, and also william, who is supportive of her as a couple who were in love. They wanted they wanted a normal life. They wanted the same kind of life that you and i have. But they were denied that because of the laws of the slavery. That generated just a desire, unquenchable thirst to leave and get out of the state of georgia and the south. 1848, they decided they were going to leave. They planned the trip for four days, and they took off at night, they left, and they went to savannah and from savannah they caught a ship. Sailed to charleston, south carolina, and made symptom stops along the way, and finally ended up in philadelphia. But then once in philadelphia, the abolitionsist told them they wouldnt be safe in philadelphia as they would be in boston, massachusetts. Because the law in philadelphia were different than massachusetts. They helped them get to boston where there was a free black society of about 200 or 300 free blacks that had been th
The new cspan. Org website gives you access to an Incredible Library of political events with more added each day through the nonstop coverage of national politics, history, and nonfiction books. Find the daily coverage of official washington or access more than 200,000 hours of our current cspan video. Everything since 1987. Our video is searchable and viewable on your desktop computer, tablet, smart phone. Just look for the Prominent Church or at the top of each page. And the new cspan. Org makes it easy to watch what is happening today in washington and find people and events from the past 25 years. The most comprehensive Video Library in politics. Heres a look of some of the books being published this week. We are not in a post feminist era. I am concerned about the war on women. We are rolling back access to reproductive rights. There is no end to the regrettable statistics on violence against women. We have not stopped shaming girls about their bodies. We have so much sexism in t
I dont in my church right now worry about [inaudible] he was a black baptist minister who became the central, the nerve center of the Civil Rights Movement in birmingham. He was an officer one of the original officers of cadence southern christian Leadership Conference but they were more associates and friends in the ministry. Its often said that the people around king are referred to in a skiings lieutenants. Shuttlesworth was never a lieutenant in the sense that he never worked for king, although he was last known so that the major demonstrations in 1963 which arguably are the watershed events of the several Rights Movement and the first really big victory other than the montgomery boycott, those five weeks of demonstrations in 1963 were based on 70 years of work work seven years of work that shuttlesworth had done in birmingham battling segregation and of course the commissioner of Public Safety who is an icon of Southern Resistance to integration bull connor. And so there was a gre
In seven days. That is what Oakland Police officers are dealing with. Right now. The most recent homicide happened just after six tonight in oaklands concordia park. Seven other people have died across the city in just the last week. Ktvu Elissa Harrington joins us live in oakland, where some city leaders and Community Leaders are calling for action. Well christina. Some of these latest shootings happened in broad daylight, and the police chief has said that gun violence is plaguing the city and now at least one City Council Member is calling for the federal government to provide some support. Cell phone video shows the aftermath of fridays attempted robbery of a brinks Armored Vehicle along east Oaklands International boulevard brings employees seen on the ground, helped by bystanders after getting shot in the leg, sources say the brinks guard shot and killed a would be robber who was part of a group trying to rob the armored truck. City Council Member noel gayo sent us this video, he