house of representatives who have jumped into our present day and we believe into ou history in a way that we haven t seen, as he pointed out, since martin luther king was 2 years old, when he came to prominence as a civil rights leader it is what feels like a terrible moment for the country, but out of it there are thes absolute lightning sparks of hope in the form of those thre lawmakers who have bee unbelievably strong an principled, and just brilliantly the struggle, if you will a reason for hope in the darkness, i guess. one of those sparks of hope representative justin joins us gonna join us tonight. and so very glad to have reverend warnock kind of leading into that. yes, what a ticket. thank, you alex on this day, this very day, 60 years ago, the reverend dr martin luther king junior wa arrested along with 55 other and was jailed and birmingham, alabama. the notorious segregationist will conor ordered the arres of dr. martin luther king on april 12th, 1963, fo
unbelievably strong an principled, and just brilliantly the struggle, if you will a reason for hope in the darkness, i guess. one of those sparks of hope representative justin joins us gonna join us tonight. and so very glad to have reverend warnock kind of leading into that. yes, what a ticket. thank, you alex on this day, this very day, 60 years ago, the reverend dr martin luther king junior wa arrested along with 55 other and was jailed and birmingham, alabama. the notorious segregationist will conor ordered the arres of dr. martin luther king on april 12th, 1963, four, quote, parading without a permit. that was during a protes against segregation in birmingham dr. martin luther king was sentenced to a birmingham jail after the united auto worker paid his 160,000 dollar bail back, dr. king was release from that jail, eight days later. on april 20th. while in that jail, dr. king was in a dark cell, alone, wit no mattress, and was denied an phone calls. he was smuggled
something is changing after the local vote b officials in memphis t reinstate representative justi pearson, he said this. we do not speak alone yes we speak together yes [applause we fight together yes - to expel us. you can t expel hope yes. now that the sheriff an county commission have don their job, i am so glad we can get back to doing our job. yes and what is our job? back to elevate the voices o the six people in nashville. the three children who wer just nine years old. in an op-ed piece in the ne york times today, titled defiant and determined i m ready to keep fighting for tennessee, representativ pearson wrote, it s not just a individual voices that wer sanctioned and silent last thursday it was the voices of the nearl 135,000 tennesseeans w represented, many desperate fo protection from the absence of many common sense gun safety laws in our states since the covenant schoo shooting, the republican supermajority in the state house has done little bu adv
justin jones expulsion the same thing happened toda in memphis, with representativ pearson, but he will not b sworn in as a member of th house until tomorrow the movement lives or die in memphis and here is a hollow place in this sacred place, we are showing the united states of america and the republicans in tennessee that the movement is still alive. hurray. we need to lift up thes amazing voices of these youn people we need a multi generational multi racial organizatio that s gonna seek legislature. something changes and easy. something is changing in our state that s going to restor democracy and get rid of these forces that are trying to keep taking backward. something is changing after the local vote b officials in memphis t