History tv. 48 hours of programming on American History every weekend on cspan 3. Follow us on twitter at cspanhistory for schedule, upcoming programs and keep up with the latest history news. Each week American History tvs reel america brings you archival films to help tell the story of the 20th century. Hurricane hilda blows in the town of franklin, louisiana, only to find the streetsdy serted. 3,400 outside residents were evacuated covering 75 square miles. Hilda hit the states with winds up to 150 miles per hour. Police and National Guard and Civil Defense workers go on disaster alert. The rescue work goes off like clockwork. Schools, courthouses and other stormproof structures became emergency shelters. So well prepared for evacuation and shelter plans when the full force of the hurricane hit all the residents of franklin were safe and sound. Along the coast, more than 150,000 people left their homes for safe havens. Seven states felt the fury of hilda but the damage was was missi
There is a story hidden about mr. King. What is it . From april 1967 to april 1968, it shifted against him because of his opposition to the vietnam war. I have seen three biographers on here before. Without the heavy lifting by the historians, i cannot have written a death of a king. No one has ever focused on the text. They have not focused on the last year of his life april 4, 1967 to 1968, one year to the date. What is the last year like . How does he navigate . How is america treating him . He left five years after i have a dream. He involved in the fiveyear period. Into the back, you say you didnt 19 interviews for this book. Which one did you learn the most . Good question. I suspect there is nothing like talking to correct Coretta Scott king. I talked to Coretta Scott king many times. Mr. Hardy passed away who wrote the vietnam speech for dr. King. He believed and he said to me many times that he believed that speech beyond vietnam put a target on his back. When dr. King calls a
When dr. King calls america the greatest purveyor of violence, it was a damning speech. He says about america. Mr. Harding dies believing he was partly responsible for putting that target on his back. You talked to young and clarence and Coretta Scott king. Who i had a chance to interview and all of those notes ive been keeping and saving for a moment like this when the book would be written. You were three years old when he was shot and killed. Can you remember the first time you knew there was a Martin Luther king . She was certainly in my conscious before i turned 12. We discuss something prior occasion. I wrote about this in my memoir. The defining moment is a brutal beating i received in indiana. The brutal beating i received at age 12, i was in the hospital for a couple of weeks in traction as a 12yearold kid. I cannot understand why it happened. Who beat you . My father. My father or stepfather . My stepfather but technically my father. He had never lost his temper the form. Bef
One of the mentors of reverend sharpton, reverend jesse jackson. We try to live up to the meaning of that name the house of justice. Every saturday, we hold a community rally that is broadcast throughout the nation, both on internet and on radio. We make sure that people can come there, that are looking for help, they need assistance, that are looking for referrals. We hold a monthly legal might in order to give people in our community and affordable way to get direction on some of the legal challenges that face them in their communities, all of our chapters duplicate those efforts in many ways. Which is how we stay connected to the communities that we serve. We try to know what the needs are within that community, and we try to help people meet those needs. Im not asking you to think about what we have already done, see can be satisfied with our progress. I know this isnt the National Satisfaction network, this is the National Action network. But i am asking you to draw inspiration fr
Social service, criminal justice, health care. All these systems have to be held accountable to ensuring equity. Even to that extent, we have to have conversations about how we recognize injustice. I would like to add the name of Tanisha Anderson to the list of those killed at the hands of police. We mention, tamir rice, eric gardner, michael brown, and we have to uplift the name of women who have experienced disproportionate abuse or had died at the hands of police. The conversation has to happen every day in every setting in order for us to move past as a move past hour past as a country and our present. I have heard people say we just have to get over it. But we have iterations of disproportionally and racism today. These are conversations that have to happen. We all have to be collectively a part of that. In the same way that we have many people of various races and ethnicities and ages uplifting the black lives matter movement. You will see black and white people and latino people