Evenyearsold being in buffalo new york. It was my first time in that elevator, my first time seeing an escalator and it was so different and it had an impact on me because some people working together, living together. Host why did you make that trip . Guest i went there to spend part of the summer with another brother of my mother and some of my First Cousins. Host and other date in your history, september 2, 1986 democratic primary. Guest that was the reduction day in atlanta in the fifth Congressional District of georgia. It was a very difficult race with a closed and the differing mind by the name of julian bond who we had worked together in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee with a wonderful, wonderful friend. He served in the state house, the state senate, to come to congress and i wanted to come to congress, and it was a race that i never wanted to repeat like that. Host and you won . Guest i did prevail. And some people thought they didnt have a chance and didnt have
We are marking 15 years of booktv on cspan2. Here are some programs to watch this weekend on booktv. All weekend we are live from the 2013 southern festival of books in nashville would some of the operas featured are kitty but the run end of light care, the removal of tennessee governor ray blanton in 1979. And the jfk association. See a complete schedule of the days events and also a look at a late alexander cockburns book a colossal wreck. Aero difficult political scandals and American Culture at 9 00 on sunday. A 00 p. M. Sunday your thoughts what does not apply here. Up next representative john lewis, a democrat from georgia. The 14 term congressman talks about his role in the Civil Rights Movement, Race Relations in the obama event political partisanship on capitol hill, he has written wind a memoir of the movement, across that bridge life lessons and a vision for change and march book 1. Congressman john lewis, who is elwin wilson . Guest id met him in 1961. I was part of the fre
You get this kind of a surge and clearly that is on the increase. So in terms of Foreign Policy issues and, and i think this gets into some of what erica has been dealing with, we have more and more of these effects of climate, what we think are Climate Change. Were seeing, seeing droughts become more serious. Were seeing storms become more serious storms and how do you see this affecting us in terms of this Foreign Policy . I mean, one thing we have to deal with is often the United States is turned to help, people turn to us for human hahm aid and seeps that, that were running through that much more quickly than we used to in the past. Right. It is really interesting. We were all invited as part of the global thinkers event to a event at washington, d. C. As well and was focused much more on Foreign Policy and not specifically Climate Change but as a scientist who spend most of her day inside of a Science Building it was interesting to interact and hear from folks like current ambassa
Medal of freedom, even when they were met with multiple beatings and multiple arrests. Congressman lewis referred to it as getting into the good trouble, necessary trouble. Speaker of the house nancy pelosi ordered the flags be lowered to half staff. We have yet to hear from the president on the death of john lewis. Heres a look back at his towering legacy. Reporter throughout his life john lewis stood for peoples right. Born on an Alabama Cotton farm, he not only lived to see an africanamerican elected president , he would be a major part of making it happen. Tonight we gather here in this magnificent state in denver because we still have a dream. We still have a dream. Reporter lewis growing you was angered by the unfairness of the jim crow south. He credited Martin Luther king jr. Forr inspiring him. As a student, he organized sitins at lunch counsters. In the early 60s, he was a freedom rider, challenging segregation at interstate bus term nainals kroacross the sout. The embodiment
And he came to symbolize the movement, he believed that he could help a country find its soul. He likes to stir things up, he likes alleg s drama. He is not about popularity. He is about purpose. Never give up. Never giver in. The 17 Term Congress maman fs a new foe, his commitment through the years paved the way for a new generation. John lewis led them on a mission to change america. Our country will never ever be the same because of what happened. When activists turned on it to protest the trumps separation on Migrant Children from their pa im sick and tired of the separated babies from their families. Its painful, its a violation of human rights. That is right. We have to do something, so we are prepared to take action here and now. Lets do it. You feel like you have been placed here for a reason. You have to disturb the order. One expression that he uses i love, he said that we have to make good trouble. Lewis first came up with the phrase as a child in pike county, alabama. I did