history. guess who was participating in that? not just lolo jones but naacp, standard bearer middle class turned their back on those boys, too complicated, poor, share croppers children. finally claudette colvin. here she is at the moment of challenging segregation in montgomery and yet because she s poor, because she s dark skinned she s pregnant and unmarried. she s later pregnant as pointed out in the book. it wasn t the pregnancy at the time. it was the fact she wasn t a proper poster girl for representing a black middle class movement at the moment. when you say poverty not just resource deprivation, when you said millennials, it s the presentation of the self that middle class black civil rights movements long defined as outside the boundaries of what we call the reputable movement of civil rights. i want to ask you this in part, amy, a very serious question in the context of sort of who is on
and do a job for them so that their lives will be better. i don t come to washington just to sit around and listen to critics talk about things. i come because the people on my block want us to make their lives better and it become as phenomenal waste of energy, time, emotion to go through this process. people on your block want things to happen. is it on a personal note? it must be frustrating for you to have to deal with people like issa that just seem determined not to really try to get things done for the country. well, i ve got to tell you, reverend, as a son of two former share croppers and now members of the united states, i refuse to be distracted and that s the beauty of our committee and the democrats. i think we re very focussed, we will remain focused, we can hear all of the chatter on the side with no facts to back it up but
the truth in courtrooms. this system controlled their lives from the movement they walk up to the time they went to bed and affected whites and blacks restricting everything they could do, their every interaction. on top of that, it required that there were only certain things that they could do. there were so many limits put upon them. many of them were in some ways still living in a world that was requiring them to live almost as kind of new kind of slavery, in which they were share croppers and working the land. they would see nothing from years of hard labor. and when they left, they were in some ways seeking political asylum within their own country. it s the only time citizens of america, that americans had to flee one part of their own country to find freedom in another part of their own country, to find to become the citizens they had been born to. and as part of your reresearch, you rented the same kind of car, an old buick, that one of your characters had driven on the mi
photograph someone s face. it was almost like you were looking at the person s hands or something because you could see how hard their lives have been and it was in their faces. reporter: in 1960 black share croppers in tennessee were being evicted from their homes for registering to vote. tent city was an emergency camp set up on donated land for those people who suddenly found themselves with no food, no shelter and nowhere to turn. withers rushed there with the only aid he had. his camera. that was a sense of mission to him. i can remember him calling all of the different editors and reporters around the country. to pitch the story? right. that s what he would do when he felt that it was something that really needed to be exposed. he had his own mission. a purpose. what was that?
klein has helped to promote understanding among all people. the honorable john r. louis. lewis. from his activism in the civil rights movement to his nearly 25 years in the house of representatives, john r. lewis has dedicated his life to shattering barriers and fighting injustice. the son of share croppers from alabama, he rose with courage, fortitude and purpose to organize the first student sit-ins in the earlier freedom rides. the youngest speaker at the 1963