Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening thanks for joining us. Time is running out for leaders to make some kind of deal with iran about its nuclear program. President obama told cbs face the nation that within the next month or so, his Administration Needs to determine whether negotiators can get iran to truly agree to a reasonable deal. If we are able to verify that in fact they are not developing weapons systems, then theres a deal to be had, but thats going to require them to accept the kind of verification and constraints on their program that so far, at least, they have not been willing to say yes to. Sreenivasan
And i am handicapped in every way. I want to be a student i have struggled hard. I will always be thankful for the naacp for giving me some directly to channel my activities for a better way of life. I am very thankful for dr. Martin luther king, who came to montgomery with his nonviolent christian attitude and of loving your enemies. I almost did not come here today because so many people told me not to come here, and i said that, seeing what happened in summa, i came here with hope and faith and you have given me faith today. I want to say that we were given leaflets about this. Dr. King was not a student, but i was. I learned at that time and place that we are not in a struggle of black against white, but wrong and right. Thank you. [applause] someone has suggested that besing but were not going to sings. Someone has suggested that i acknowledge the presence of the people who are here from london and the people from canada and other fine countries. Im not going to do that. Someone h
Alabama, marking the 50th anniversary of bloody sunday when Voting Rights advocates on a march were met with violence from Alabama State troopers and local police. Starting here shortly, the commemorative Church Service in the historic brown chapel ame church, the starting point for that summontgomery marches. Expect to hear today from eric holder andrew young, Martin Luther king the third, reverend al sharpton, and alabama congressman, whose district includes soma. That is expected to start shortly here in selma, alabama. Down by the riverside down by the riverside down by the riverside down by the riverside im going to put on my long white robe. Down by the riverside down by the riverside down by the riverside down by the riverside [applause] thank you, sir. All right. [applause] live on American History tv on cspan three, the brown chapel ame church. We will be hearing from eric holder conger holder, andrew young, Martin Luther king the third, reverend al sharpton. During this comme
This is American History tv on cspan3. [applause] let me thank god this day for there is no other place i would rather be at this hour than in the house of the lord. Amen. Before i say what i want to say, which will be quick, i must proud i am to once again have i am proud to have my wife and our daughter here with us. [applause] the only grandchild of martin and coretta king. I was asked to do a tribute, and it has been 50 years, but i am not feeling like a tribute because i find it challenging to celebrate yes, we celebrate so many who some gave their lives and others walked over the bridge yesterday 50 years ago and were beaten badly, but when we think about what Martin Luther king, jr. Would want us to do, i imagine he would tell us that our work was not done. Do, i imagine he would tell us that our work was not done. It has certainly been 50 years and there are so many here today that would not have been here. Cabinet secretary that were certainly not here 50 years ago, and i am p
Woodie gutherie is most famous for writing this land is your land. He was born in oklahoma and we are very proud to have his work back in oklahoma where we think it belongs. He was an advocate for people who were disenfranchised. For those people who were Migrant Workers from Oklahoma Kansas and texas during the era who have found them else in california, literally starving. Woodie recorded very few songs of his own. We have a listening station that features 46 of his songs in his own voice. Thats what makes the recordings that he did make so significant and so important to us. Watch all of our events from tulsa saturday, at noon eastern on cspan2s book tv and sunday on American History tv on cspan3. That day, march 7, became known as bloody sunday. 18 days later, with armed protection of the u. S. Army and Alabama National guard provided on the orders of president joan son, the protesters completed the fourday march from selma, the Alabama State capitol. Up next three hours of abc New