Ago now seen through the eyes of two different men who shared the same goal many did that day. it was, in fact, a march for jobs and freedom. our thought today is we succeeded in changing this country. reporter: as a young organizer, cox was responsible for arranging safe transportation for people making the trek from the south to washington, d.c. he says there were challenges from top to bottom, much had to be done in very little time. the challenge from the bottom was the logistics of getting people here. i m trying to get trailways, buss, i m trying to get greyhound buss. they are saying it s dangerous bringing people to the south. the challenge from the top was the kennedy administration was opposed to john lewis speech. reporter: cox worked alongside a 23-year-old activist john lewis, who was the chairman of the organization.
reporter: a march six decades ago now seen through the eyes of two different men who shared the same goal many did that day. it was, in fact, a march for jobs and freedom. our thought today is we succeeded in changing this country. reporter: as a young organizer, cox was responsible for arranging safe transportation for people making the trek from the south to washington, d.c. he says there were challenges from top to bottom, much had to be done in very little time. the challenge from the bottom was the logistics of getting people here. i m trying to get trailways, buss, i m trying to get greyhound buss. they are saying it s dangerous bringing people to the south. the challenge from the top was the kennedy administration was opposed to john lewis speech. reporter: cox worked alongside a 23-year-old activist john lewis, who was the chairman of the organization.
Leagues. once you get to aaa which is where this book is set, you re facing past major league leaguers every single night, and that s where it gets more difficult. alluding to in the intro, life in the minor leagues is not wonderful. living and out of western and greyhound buss. many earn less than the federal poverty level. if you know that you don t have what it takes to make it to the major leagues, why go through this? because they all still have that dream, that something s going to change, that they re going to find a way to hit that curveball, find a way to hit outside corner with the breaking pitch when they have to, because there are occasions where it happens. one of the guys i write about in the book, nate mclouth, with the nationals, out of baseball two years ago, released by the pittsburgh pirates, he was 30, thought his career was over. he got a chance to go to the baltimore orioles farm team, found something in his swing, ended up being the orioles
put away enough to retire on, maybe take a vacation once in a while. i was telling folks in ohio the other day, i remember my favorite vacation when i was 11 years owed, traveling the country with my grandmother and my mom and my sister. once in a while we d rent a car. a bunch of times we d just take greyhound buss. sometimes we d take the train and stay at howard johnson s. as long as there was a little puddle of a pool, i would be happy. you d go to the ice machine and the vending machine and buy a soda and get the ice and you were really excited about it. and what was important was just the time you had to spend with your family. there wasn t anything fancy, but you understood that you could spend time with your family, they were cared for, you had a sense of security. you could provide for your