alabama just voted in a democratic senator. why? let s move down here, birming m birmingham, 30%. look next to birmingham in shelby county. yes, roy moore won this suburban county, but that is not the margin the republican needs in the close-in suburbs. roy moore needs to do better than that. the reason people think 2018 is the way for the democrats, it s not just alabama. close in, the democratic base. look at these margins. turned out hugely in the government s race. but let s move over here. loudoun county used to be republican. the margin here, nowhere near where they need it. drop down here. again, the republican wins but just barely. that s a dead heat in a suburban area that used to be reliably
surprised by this, that i called harry bellafonte and said, harry, you didn t tell me i d have to sign a demand promissory note. he said, well, better you than me. i said, but you have more money than i do. but in any event it was done, and we were appreciative of it, i took the money to birmingham, and the following, that was on a saturday, the following tuesday, there was a messenger that came to my office with an envelope marked personal and confidential, and the envelope and there was the promissory note i signed and it said paid in full. obviously i didn t pay it, it had been paid. that was a profound experience. first of all, a very great gesture on the part of the rockefeller family. to make it clear, i hear references about my contribution to dr. king s speech. dr. king wrote most of his
out and published an ad calling on dr. martin luther king to stop the protests, to work inside the system and stop organizing these demonstrations. to stop being the outside agitator, he responded with a letter from the birmingham jail which he wrote longhand in the margins of the newspaper in which he was able to read the ad and read the stories of his fellow ministers criticizing his tactics. his arrest was one component of a big activist plan for birmingham that year. birmingham was seen as being among the most impossible places for progress. it was the most stubborn, the most violent, the most rigidly opposed to desegregation. the plan was to push there in one of the worst places notice country. and see what happened. see how they responded to pressure. and after what they thought was a slow start of sit-ins and protests in the first eight days a total of 150 people had been arrested and taken to jail, that sounds like a lot, but for the
images, at how these protesters were brutalized in birmingham. there was the practical nuts and bolts dollars and sense matter of raising the bail money to get the protesters out of jail. he raised $50,000 himself, the unions stepped in and kicked up a lot of money. a black store workers union in new york. they sent tens of thousands of dollars to the jail to serve as bail money. with all those hundreds of children in jail, when they totalled up the bill for bail, it was staggering. something like $160,000 they needed to raise to bail out the children. that is in 1963, that is not adjusted for inflation. do you realize how much money that was at that time. and you know who coughed up money in a really big way? nelson rockefeller. nelson rockefeller, not only governor of new york at the time, but also a rockefeller, and he asked dr. king s private attorney to meet him at a chase
very difficult for me to be there. and a lot of emotions, i said to my dear friend ambassador andy young, we put our arms around one another. i said, andy, i started to cry last night. he said, yeah, so did i. and i thought that oh, my god, i was 32 years of age, dr. king was 34. and i thought of so, so many people that i knew personally who were not there. i m not just talking about randolph and rusten, people you see in the pictures, and some of the labor leaders. i m thinking about people who were decisive in the civil rights movement, who made who were part of that whole tapestry. and we don t have the time in this program for me to call the role, but an example like fanny lou in greenwood, mississippi, james orange an activist in birmingham, alabama.