Men of the Twentieth Century is the title king of the cats the life and times of Adam Clayton Powell, jr. Because it so aptly describes Adam Clayton Powell. He was smooth, he was cool, he was goodlooking, he was smart, and he always was a complete package that spoke eloquently for africanamericans and the poor in this country. One of the great things about this is not long ago we had a student come in who was looking for a biography of Adam Clayton Powell and there wasnt one. All the books about him were outofprint so it is a privilege to have king of the cats the life and times of Adam Clayton Powell, jr. Back in print. It is a privilege to have wil haygood here to talk about his book. Welcome. [applause] welcome, thank you. It is always nice to be here at this bookstore. They do treat me like i live in the neighborhood which i do, treat me as if i come here and do my book shopping which i do. I also notice there are these posters advertising the authors for the month of february. My
Plans to have 48 teams at the tournament in 2026. And carol has the weather. Good morning. A breezy day ahead of us. For some of us, starting on a bright note with sunshine. It is cold. Thicker cloud in the west will introduce rain going from east to west during the day. Later the wind will strengthen. And ill have more details on the weather for you in 15 minutes. Thanks, carol. Good morning. First, our main story. Another strike is affecting services on Southern Rail. Drivers belonging to the aslef union will stop work for three days this week. The dispute about the role of the guard on trains has been going on for nearly ten months. 0ur South Of England correspondent, Duncan Kennedy, is at horsham Train Station. Duncan, what is the mood like among passengers there . It has been crippling train lines for ten months. Commuters are out there. You have to get up early. It ta kes there. You have to get up early. It takes longer. I am abandoning going out to town tomorrow. We will see how
Host we are back live with h wil haygood. We will put up the numbers. 2028488200 in the east and central time zones. 7488201 for the mount and pacific time zone. We will put up our email, facebook and twitter as well. Those are other ways you can contact us if the phone lines are busy. We have mentioned it in black and white. I will read a couple quotes from your book about sammy davis, jr. He loved white women and the site of one on his black sheets. His american dream. You go on to write nixon needed sammys aura. Guest sammy davis, jr. Was one of the more memorizing figures in the history of american entertainment. His mother left him behind, he was abandoned as a child and that haunted him forever. He went on the road with will and his father sammy davis, sr. He was a precious child. He was a prodigy. There is always a price to pay when you live in that world. Sammy was not seen as a handsome figure when he became a teenager in 15 to 17 and 18 he was up in canada when he was 19 and
Everything like that. I had a horrible home life. My mom is physically crazy, my father not working. I ago throughout this modern modern problems in addition to going to the problem of being an average american with these expectations and no site of any means to accomplish them. And that lead somebody to want to commit suicide. If you have no hope in this country with all the brain you can stay, i can do any class simply because i have to do with my parents situation and on top of that coming the lack of empathy towards the prejudice i get. But your experience with upper bound him and his that allow africanamericans severe american situations, how do you think that a person like myself is basically giving up, how can i have a chance to redeem myself in so much as input to me being nothing but a host you are calling from college park, maryland. Are you at the university . Caller yes i am. Computer science. Software for my seventh year. I actually worked host seven dear . Caller seven de
Exciting to find the figures like Adam Clayton Powell junior, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Thurgood Marshall who were not born into Mainstream Society and who by dent of their enormous talent and gift sticks themselves into the fabric of the country via entertainment, politics, sports, or in marshalls case the law, in the case of the white house butler, extra ordinary service to the country. These figures, when i look back at the figures, society, culture, race and style. Gues guest there is legislation that congress powell, and sammy davis junior integrated nightclubs in the 1940s across the country. Armstrong and linda horn and sammy davis, junior, and Sugar Ray Robinson who fought the mob in new york who controlled the fight game. He wanted to give fighters some independence, himself especially. And of course, many epic cases that he fought before the United States victory, with the 1954 School Segregation case with brown versus board of education. When you look at all of these men, you