Fought in the name of justice and equality, even when equality sometimes meant face the blows of a billy club and tear gas. Still the crusader for civil rights persisted and now after nearly six decades the torch is passed to the next generation. Heres abcs steve osunsami. And lead me home and someday when we do form a more perfect union, whether its years from now or decades or even if it takes another two centuries, john lewis will be a founding father of that fuller, fairer, better america. Reporter from the church in atlanta that is the beating heart of the Civil Rights Movement bells rang today in honor of congressman john lewis. 80 times for 80 years of his storied life. Welcome to Ebenezer Baptist church. Spiritual home of Martin Luther king jr. Reporter three former president s, members of congress, mayors, past and present, mourners braving the heat outside, all came together to remember and celebrate the man who stared down death and fought for life. John lewis, first of the
Decision of the United States Supreme Court batting segregation in public transportation. My street mate on that Greyhound Bus you must understand in 1961 black people and white people could be seated together. When you get out of washington to travel to virginia to North Carolina, alabama, mississippi, wewere on our way to new orleans. So we didnt have any problems for the most part until we got to rockville. And a little place in charlotte North Carolina, it was a sizable city, a young africanamerican man attempted to get a shoeshine in a socalled white barbershop that was in a socalled white waiting room. He was arrested and taken to jail. The next day the jury dismissed the charges against him but my seatmate and two of us arrived at the Greyhound Bus station in South Carolina and a group of white men met us in the doorway and started beating us and left us lying in a pool of blood and the local officials came up and wanted to know whether we wanted to press charges andwe said no ,
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1. 2 million leisure and hospitality jobs were added in may. The number of workers reported being on temporary layoff decreased 52. 7 million in may. More than that, this was a great number that was pointed out jobs were created for black americans in particular. Sot was a 1. 7 increase, very encouraging numbers from. Mays jump in average weekly hours also was an encouraging sign because increasing hours is a sign that employees employers need to hire more workers to meet demand. For all private sector employees, average weekly hours hours,ed by. 5 to 34. 7 the highest level since it began in 2006. 73 of Small Businesses are open. That is up from the 52 right before the april jobs report reference period. Upo, workplace visits were roughly 40 from a pandemic low. The stock market is absolutely soaring. We saw with the s p, it had its greatest 50 day rally. The markets clearly have confidence in President Trump, the jobs president who created the hottest economy in modern history once.
Land maintenance. And on cspan3, the Senate Homeland security and Governmental Affairs committee holds a hearing on federal buying and distribution strategies in response to covid19. Mondays white house briefing, press secretary touted the may 2020 jobs report released last week. She was asked about the Congressional Democrats Police Reform bill. The ongoing protests around the country, and senator mitt romney joining the margin washington, d. C. An hour. Hello. The transition to gr the jobs in this country, we had more than 2. 5 million added. The prediction was at 7. 5 million jobs will be lost. Towards the Positive Side and the greatest number of jobs created in a single month on record. That is extraordinary. 225,000 manufacturing jobs. 464,000 construction jobs. 1. 2 million leisure and hospitality jobs were added in may. The number of workers reported being on temporary layoff decreased 52. 7 million in may. More than that, this was a great number that was pointed out jobs were c