mission was to be the research arm for congress. which is still one of its roles. there is a tunnel that allows members and their staff, and the library staff to go back and forth. chris: is been called the most beautiful public space in america built in 1897 for $7 million. which was under budget and ahead of schedule. paden fell love with reading is a little girl. i would read a cereal box, i would read anything. chris: when she discovered libraries.- they are the largest treasure chest because you never know what you can find. nightsticks. chris: jon lewis is talking about bloodied sunday march 7, 1965. when 600 protesters tried to march from selma to montgomery alabama. they wanted to demand the voting rights. it s a key scene in the movie selma. jon lewis was the man in the
chris: the library s original mission was to be the research arm for congress. which is still one of its roles. there is a tunnel that allows members and their staff, and the library staff to go back and forth. chris: is been called the most beautiful public space in america built in 1897 for $7 million. which was under budget and ahead of schedule. paden fell love with reading is a little girl. i would read a cereal box, i would read anything. chris: when she discovered libraries.- they are the largest treasure chest because you never know what you can find. they came towards us, beating us with nightsticks. chris: jon lewis is talking about bloodied sunday march 7, 1965. when 600 protesters tried to march from selma to montgomery alabama. they wanted to demand the voting rights. it s a key scene in the movie
president johnson signed it into law. dr. king met with him and said, mr. president, we need a voting exact signed. the president just said i just signed a civil rights act. we don t have the votes in congress to get a voter rights act passed, if you want it, make me do it. so we intensified our efforts in selma. on sunday, march 7, 1965, a group of us, about 600 of us, left the brown chapel ame church to walk 50 miles from selma to montgomery, to dramatize to the nation and to the world that people of color wanted to register to vote. there were young children, young men and young women your age walking with us, older people, 75, 80 and 90 who had been waiting to register to vote. we were walking in a peaceful, orderly, non-violent fashion.
came toward us, beating us with night sticks. john lewis is talking about bloody sunday, march 7, 1965 when 600 protesters tried to march from selma to montgomery, alabama to demand their voting rights. it s a key scene in the movie selma. john lewis was the man in the white trench coat. but it s not a movie for lewis. it s a memory that still burns half a century later. i m trying to protect my head. i really thought i was going to die there. when did you realize that bloody sunday was a tu point? the american people saw what happened. they couldn t take it. that was a sense of righteous indignation in america. reporter: on march 15 president lyndon johnson addressed a joint session of
my message to members of the united states supreme court is remember, don t forget, our recent history. walk in our shoes. come and walk in our shoes. come and walk in the shoes of those three young men that died in mississippi. come and walk in the shoes of those of us who walk across that bridge on bloody sunday, march 7, 1965. did you think on that day when lyndon johnson signed this in to law that five members of a supreme court, the majority, would some day gut it the way it has today? i didn t think that on that day when president johnson signed the voting rights act, that i would live to see five members of the united states supreme court undoing what president johnson did with those pens. and i have one of the pens that he used to sign that law at my