her entire family in the strike. the amidst tensions over north korea s nuclear test, 51 countries have signed a new united nations treaty to ban nuclear weapons. today we rightfully celebrate the milestone. now we must continue along the hard roads towards the nuclear arsenals. amy: thousands gathered in washington, d.c. come to celebrate the life of the legendary comedian and human rights activist dick gregory, who passed away last month at the age of 84. among them, malcolm x s daughter. he raised his voice for malcolm and dr. king and medgar evers and all of the others who were slain by bullies, by bigots , because they could not do so for themselves. amy: we will hear the voices of ,he children of the legend martin luther king, junior, richard pryor, malcolm x, and medgar evers, among others. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. the trump administration ordered new sanctions thursday aga
though i do cover that in the first chapter. i want to take it through the rest of the 1960 s. while we desegregated in 1963, we did not integrate. that took a long time, going even beyond 1970. but it is in this period that the university went in a new direction. once segregation was out of the way, once all that energy that had gone to trying to maintain and actually illegal and certainly immoral way of doing things, after all that energy could be sent in another direction, the university of alabama began to turn itself away from a regional football party school and warning itself and turning itself toward becoming a major national academic institution. that is what it has become, but it was a long journey in the 1960 s that sent us that in that direction. there were a lot of changes going on at the beginning of the 1960 s. but really, it stems from 1956. at the first effort of desegregation, which failed horribly, accompanied by riots. this girl was a student for three
luncheon. 19, 1962.s on july this speech came one week after his second arrest in albany, georgia. his press club taught k more than a year before dr. king s most famous i have a dream speech on the national mall. here is how the evening will work. first, joe madison will interview mr. booker who was a club member, who not only attended the speech in 1962, but he helped organize it. as a member of the club s speakers committee. second, joe will interview, by telephone, dr. cb jones, dr. jones helped write the speech. then, we will hear four speech excerpts, in the order that dr. king said them. , and wehear his opening will hear his closing. and we have to excerpts in the middle of the speech. there will be a panel discussion of these first, middle, and ending section after each section. one of these middle excerpts is a video clip. everything else is audio, but there is one video clip. this video clip is the only known video clip of this speech to exist. film of no video o
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