questions and inevitably used all my question. i was going to ask that too so people come together and talk about what they interpret from a book and what the author s intentions were. share of book for next year. it is still logan. if you have any suggestions send them my way. for more information on booktv s recent visit to yuma, arizona and the many other cities visited by local content vehicles go to c-span.org/localcontent. up next on booktv jonathan rieder recounts dr. martin luther king jr. s letter from birmingham jail. jonathan rieder report on the effect the letter and the civil-rights movement and dr. king s believe in the urgency of the movement. this is an hour and 15 minutes. good evening. welcome. we are pleased you have joined us this evening. also want to welcome our good friends from c-span who are kidding tonight s program. it will be broadcast on booktv at a future time. also please note we have books for sale in the back and i am sure our authors
and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. take a on april tavis: on april 12, 50 years ago, martin luther king allowed himself to be arrested and put in the birmingham, alabama jail cell where he read a newspaper that quoted moderate what energies as saying that they were extreme and untimely. at the time, he wrote an eloquent letter in response. sociology professor jonathan rieder has taken a closer look at that pivotal document in a new o connell the gospel of treating in a new look called gospel of freedom. we start by asking what it was that made you want to dissect this letter. i at the most basic level, have always been drawn to the letter. it has a aureus complexity. kingee the high-minded with these fancy philosophic notions and you also see one bristling with indignation. one moment he is taking you in to a voyage deep into the white southern soul i wonder who worships there and who is their god? then he takes whites into t
and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. take a on april tavis: on april 12, 50 years ago, martin luther king allowed himself to be arrested and put in the birmingham, alabama jail cell where he read a newspaper that quoted moderate what energies as saying that thewere extreme and untimely. at the time, he wrote an eloquent letter in response. sociology professor jonathan rieder has taken a closer look at that pivotal document in a new o connell the gospel of treating in a new look called gospel of freedom. we start by asking what it was that made you want to dissect this letter. i at the most basic level, have always been drawn to the letter. it has a aureus complexity. kingee the high-minded with these fancy philosophic notions and you also see one bristling with indignation. one moment he is taking you in to a voyage deep into the white southern soul i wonder who worships there and who is their god? then he takes whites into the
actually wanted to carry me. i think that s great. very lazy, but great. please carry me a block? no. why? i m not going to carry you. i am so tired. can you carry me a block? a block? no way, man. can you carry me one block? carry you? yeah. you re a big guy. you can carry me. carry you? auto i was carried 9.4 miles in the freezing cold weather by 155 of the nicest, most interesting, and sometimes crazy people in the world. the people of new york. all right. good stuff. thank you for watching. see you back here at 10:00 p.m. eastern. i m don lemon. soledad o brien s reports on papers, words that changed a nation is next. segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever. when one woman refused to budge, he wrote there is a new negro in the south. jailed standing up to justice, he wrote we find it difficult to wait. i accept the nobel when the world took notice, he wrote i still believe we shall overcome. faced w
public speakers are we to expect that public speakers should have a photographic memory now? how stupid to think so. talking about sarah palin possibly having some notes in her hand. palin having on her hand is like reagan having index cards and obama having a teleprompter. no real issues. are you related to that liz lemon on that show 30 rock ? of course. thank you guys for joining us on cnn. i m don lemon. see you back here next weekend. have a great week ahead. have a great week ahead. congratulations, saints. captions by vitac www.vitac.com segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever. when one woman refused to budge, he wrote there is a new negro in the south. jailed standing up to injustice, he wrote we find it difficult to wait. i accept the nobel when the world took notice, he wrote i still believe we shall overcome. faced with constant fear and even death, he wrote i am not afraid of the word tension. h