Welcome to montgomery, alabama, on American History tv. It is considered one of americas most historic cities for its role on the civil war and Civil Rights Movement. Today, it has a population of 205000 and is alabamas secondlargest city. With the help of our Cable Partners, over the next 90 thetes, hear the story of montgomery bus boycott and its impact on the city. Each day that the buses ran empty, the bus company lost about 3000 per day. About 1955. Ng three thousand dollars was the average yearly salary of most people in the area. It speaks to the amount of of the busestate because remember the bus fare was only . 10. Quite later, we will learn about an alabama governor who made a bid for the presidency. When people ask him what the takeaway from the 1958 campaign is, he says, i try to talk about progressive improvement and good and goodgood roads schools, known would listen. When i started to talk about segregation, everyone started to listen to me. But first, learn about court
When they got off the bus they were the mercy of this crowd who then proceeded to attack them even further. The deal that had been worked out with local Law Enforcement and the segregationists was evident 15 minutes they would have 15 minutes before Law Enforcement intervened. After about a 15 minute point a local Law Enforcement officer pulled his weapon and fired a shot. That is what stopped the attack. In the meantime the trailways bus arrived an hour later. They dont know until they arrived that the Greyhound Bus was already attacked. The interesting thing about the trailways bus, unlike the Greyhound Bus, several segregationists had gotten on the bus in atlanta. They were riding from atlanta. They had not only harassed the atlanta, the bus from but they had also beaten several of the freedom riders while on the bus. The trailways bus was able to continue on into birmingham for yet another mob formed and was waiting for that bus to arrive. While this was going on there were a group
Rep. Chaffetz i will never mind recognize the gentleman from georgia for five minutes. Mr. Mccarthy, i am sure that you either saw or you were briefed on the hearing of is held by this committee the past tuesday, is that correct . Gina mccarthy i was briefed on it. Then you are aware that susan hedmun testified under oath that she acted immediately upon the the high level of lead in the water. In the same hearing, dr. Edwards , whom you just referred to ago in the hero and an expert, repeatedly time and andn refuted her testimony thereby obviously the entire regions actions to this entire thing. Let me start right here. Do you believe susan headman provided this committee with false testimony on tuesday . Gina mccarthy to the best of my knowledge, no she did not. You thenor, let me ask same question. How do you feel about the . Stimony from mr. Edmonds in regards to the epa acting immediately on getting information. Governor snyder congressman, i appreciate your question. I hope i had
Well get to your thought heres in a minute but lets begin with the results. If you go to our website, cspan. Org, you can find them all there from the primary last night, who won florida, illinois, missouri, north carolina, and ohio. I just want to note that missouri is still too close to call for both the republicans and the democrats. You can find the delegate tracker there on your left and the results will be updated as we go along. New york times have the results from last night. If you look, donald trump with his win in florida. He gets the check. 46 over marco rubios 27 in the florida senators home state in illinois, donald trump garnered 39 of the vote. Ted cruz came in second with 30 . Missouri, it looks like a tie right now. 41 and 4 for ted cruz and donald trump. And in north carolina, the new york billionaire capturing the win there as well, 40 to ted cruzs 37 . Below that, you can take a look at where Hillary Clinton stands. Four victories today. Missouri, 50 as Bernie Sand
Tonight, i am proud to stand with a person who says we should not be building walls, we should be knocking down barriers. Akron and iwas in was on stage with William Jefferson clinton and i looked at him at one point, he was in akron because of the ohio primary and i turned to him and said, no offense mr. President but Hillary Clinton is the most qualified person to run for president in my lifetime. [applause] and she is. He smiled and laughed and clapped and i think he meant it. Here is what it is about hillary. I trust her to fight for children and families because she has done that all of her life. Days with the Childrens Defense Fund to her time in the senate helping lead on the Childrens Health insurance plan. I trust Hillary Clinton to fight for human rights and Voting Rights and womens rights. Alabama as a in civil rights worker at 25 to the work she did is our secretary of state on behalf of women all over the world and womens rights. I trust Hillary Clinton on trade and manufa