His own ticket into the professional class. But marion gave up his Chemistry School graduate fellowship along with his phd, although he had finished all coursework except for the thesis. For marion could not resist the call of the movement. He moved from chemistry classes to james lawsons nonviolence resistance workshops and to leadership along with diane nash in the nashville sitins, to raleigh where he became the first chair of the student nonviolent coordinating committee, and to the Mississippi Movement and the work of the mississippi freedom democratic party. During those years, marion not only steeped himself in nonviolent resistance but in active, strategic organization. What marion learned about organizing in the deep south held him in good stead for the rest of his life. He brought Community Organizing to the district of columbia and organized his way into the leadership of this city. A man can choose to escape and forget childhood poverty and merely reminisce about his early
[applause] coming up on cspan the Funeral Service of marion barry and samuel leto governor and jeb bush discuss the bill of rights and then Funeral Service for ben bradley. On the next washington journal we look at the state of the Affordable Care act and what changes are coming in 2015. Our guests are julie robner. Well also take your calls on the healthcare law. Washington journal is live every morning at 7 00 eastern and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Marks a decade of conversations featuring an interview of the series. Tomorrow our interview with alfredo. He spoke about his memoir becoming dr. Q. And coming to the u. S. As an undocumented immigrant before becoming a brain surgeon. Watch the interview tomorrow on 7 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. New years day on the cspan networks. Here are some of our featured programs. 10 00 a. M. Eastern the washington ideas forum. Energy conservation with david crane and cake love owner warren brown and inventor dean cayman.
It was great to hear from the journalists about their relationship with jim. One of the advantages to having this many press secretaries together is that they agreed to hold a background briefing to go over some of the planning reports in detail. There has been allusions to a glass of water to. I hope the document proves us to be conservative estimates. Everyone has made reference here today about jim and sarahs work when it comes to gun safety and gun violence. Our next two speakers are people who have lived in the trenches on this issue over the last two decades and have made a difference in a terribly difficult and divisive issue. Dan gross is the president of the Brady Campaign to prevent gun violence. Before that, he started the center to prevent Youth Violence and has devoted much of his life to the cause. Gail hoffman, who many of you know, was central to putting this event together, has been at this since the late 1980s with handgun control, was the point person for all of us i
Worked with marion in the movement is much too long to call, my friends. But among them are and were john lewis, frank smith, bob ruby ray robinson, diana nash, james gorman almost carmichael, james forman, stokley carmichael, ivanhoe, donaldson richardson, lafayette and the reverend Jesse Jackson who will deliver the eulogy here today. All of us knew marion barry when he was being formed as a man by the Civil Rights Movement. Years later, here in washington when marion and i had different roles, i used to tease him on the dance floor about bringing those cotton chopping moves to the big city as marion did what he called dancing. He laughed, knowing that this was my way as a d. C. Girl of from soup south of saying to my old friend from the southern movement, you have come a long way from picking cotton in mississippi to running the missions capital Nations Capital go. [applause] but those cotton picking roots served marion barry, jr. , well. He challenged poverty by working himself out
Hours. Were expecting the roads to be on the slick side. Ill be back in a couple minutes to talk about that tranforecast. Thank you. Heres a look at some of the conditions that drivers had to contend with in an effort to make it to the thanks giving destination. David has been tracking the trip across Northern Virginia all day. He is live in hay market, virginia, with the accidents along the way. Test the roads we did to a lot of driving. We started out in arlington where this this cold rain coming down. We headed into western Fairfax County that crossover snow began and we made our way out to winchester where it was a much heavier snow. It was a tough commute on this thanksgiving eve. Route 7, the first of a few cars we found spun out. Farther down, another driver split off the road. That is where Steve Shannons crews come in. Theyve been treating the roads most of today. Heerd in loudon, i have between 120 and 130 pieces of equipment. Were getting hit harder out here than the rest of