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that flag while an integral part of our past, does not represent the future of our great state. the murderer locked up such he hoped this would start a race war. we have an opportunity to show not only was he was wrong, but just the opposite is happening. amy: we will go to columbia south carolina to speak with republican state legislators including one who is introducing the bill to remove the flag, and we will go to raleigh, north carolina where we will be joined by state naacp leader the reverend william barber, who learned of last week messed while he was in jail for yet another protest. and in new york, david goodman, brother of slain civil rights activist andrew goodman who was killed in mississippi during freedom summer 1964. he was killed after visiting a black church that had been burned to the ground. all of that and more coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. calls are growing and south carolina to ....
now on monday, south carolina governor nikki haley joined the growing number of elected leaders calling for its removal following last week s mass shooting at a historic black church in charleston. that flag while an integral part of our past, does not represent the future of our great state. the murderer locked up such he hoped this would start a race war. we have an opportunity to show not only was he was wrong, but just the opposite is happening. amy: we will go to columbia south carolina to speak with republican state legislators including one who is introducing the bill to remove the flag, and we will go to raleigh, north carolina where we will be joined by state naacp leader the reverend william barber, who learned of last week messed while he was in jail for yet another protest. and in new york, david goodman, brother of slain civil rights activist andrew goodman who was killed in mississippi during freedom summer 1964. he was killed after visiting a black chur ....
now on monday, south carolina governor nikki haley joined the growing number of elected leaders calling for its removal following last week s mass shooting at a historic black church in charleston. that flag while an integral part of our past, does not represent the future of our great state. the murderer locked up such he hoped this would start a race war. we have an opportunity to show not only was he was wrong, but just the opposite is happening. amy: we will go to columbia south carolina to speak with republican state legislators including one who is introducing the bill to remove the flag, and we will go to raleigh, north carolina where we will be joined by state naacp leader the reverend william barber, who learned of last week messed while he was in jail for yet another protest. and in new york, david goodman, brother of slain civil rights activist andrew goodman who was killed in mississippi during freedom summer 1964. he was killed after visiting a black chur ....
to the point where there are tens of thousands of people involved, and we see that also rolls over into the freedom rides in 1961. ,e see that continuing to roll culminating in the march on washington in 1963 and the southern christian leadership conference gigantic birmingham demonstrations where king writes these fantastic and eloquent letters from birmingham jail. we are going to take a little bit of a step back. what is happening there between 1961 and 1964? , we knowke was created they were involved in the freedom rides at the end. but what are they doing as an institution? we know they are wedded to nonviolent direct action. what is it that they are doing? what they re going to do is plan and execute one of the most ambitious civil rights demonstration to call it a demonstration would not do it justice. they called it the mississippi summer project, but colloquially it becomes known as freedom summer. we will see how large freedom summer in 1964, they would do a ....
the sit-in movement and how that galvanizes the movement. it gets it really moving again by the late 1950 s. once again, it was college students who get that movement rolling in 1960 and 1951. in 1960 and 1961. to the point where there are tens of thousands of people involved. we see that rolls over into freedom rights of 1961. we see that continuing, culminating on the march on washington in 1963. and the gigantic birmingham demonstration where there is the fantastic letter from the birmingham jail. what we are going to do today is take a step back. what is happening between 1961 and 1964 for sncc in particular. after it was created after the sit in movement, we know they were involved with the freedom rights at the end. we know they are wedded to nonviolent direct action, but what makes them do it? they will plan and execute one of the most ambitious civil rights call it a demonstration would not do it justice. one of the most incredible civil rights events of the ....