house of representatives who have jumped into our present day and we believe into ou history in a way that we haven t seen, as he pointed out, since martin luther king was 2 years old, when he came to prominence as a civil rights leader it is what feels like a terrible moment for the country, but out of it there are thes absolute lightning sparks of hope in the form of those thre lawmakers who have bee unbelievably strong an principled, and just brilliantly the struggle, if you will a reason for hope in the darkness, i guess. one of those sparks of hope representative justin joins us gonna join us tonight. and so very glad to have reverend warnock kind of leading into that. yes, what a ticket. thank, you alex on this day, this very day, 60 years ago, the reverend dr martin luther king junior wa arrested along with 55 other and was jailed and birmingham, alabama. the notorious segregationist will conor ordered the arres of dr. martin luther king on april 12th, 1963, fo
unbelievably strong an principled, and just brilliantly the struggle, if you will a reason for hope in the darkness, i guess. one of those sparks of hope representative justin joins us gonna join us tonight. and so very glad to have reverend warnock kind of leading into that. yes, what a ticket. thank, you alex on this day, this very day, 60 years ago, the reverend dr martin luther king junior wa arrested along with 55 other and was jailed and birmingham, alabama. the notorious segregationist will conor ordered the arres of dr. martin luther king on april 12th, 1963, four, quote, parading without a permit. that was during a protes against segregation in birmingham dr. martin luther king was sentenced to a birmingham jail after the united auto worker paid his 160,000 dollar bail back, dr. king was release from that jail, eight days later. on april 20th. while in that jail, dr. king was in a dark cell, alone, wit no mattress, and was denied an phone calls. he was smuggled
memphis outside the lorain motel where dr. king was assassinated in 1968 it is now a museum they began last week as thre members of the tennessee house of representatives subjected t an expulsion vote by the republican majority in the house. the week ended wit representative gloria johnso surviving the vote to expel her. between the votes that did actually expel our first guest tonight, representative justin jones, and then representative justin j. pearson, whose memphis district includes th lorain motel representative justin jones ha already been it reinstated as member of house of representatives after member in his district voted fo justin jones to fill the vacancy in the house o representative e created b
memphis district includes th lorain motel representative justin jones ha already been it reinstated as member of house of representatives after member in his district voted fo justin jones to fill the vacancy in the house o representative e created b justin jones expulsion the same thing happened toda in memphis, with representativ pearson, but he will not b sworn in as a member of th house until tomorrow the movement lives or die in memphis and here is a hollow place in this sacred place, we are showing the united states of america and the republicans in tennessee that the movement is still alive. hurray. we need to lift up thes amazing voices of these youn people we need a multi generational multi racial organizatio that s gonna seek legislature. something changes and easy. something is changing in our state that s going to restor democracy and get rid of these forces that are trying to keep taking backward.