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Capehart

Voices: Passing the baton

Capehart

The Washington Post

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Civil rights veterans welcome young activists to a lifetime of service, sharing lessons and struggles, and seeing how the next generation will shape and redefine what it means to keep the legacy alive.

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0:00.0

The answers why in what was what was done right and the text that has been laid out and we not only do we want to hear which we are going to do more of tonight

0:10.2

We also show appreciation and we show homage for the work that we are doing many of us get paid to do this work now

0:17.8

Which you didn't get to get you got to figure out how to rock here to pay Paul to march in Oregon.

0:24.0

He now got a sector where we get to fight for free of as a profession. Natasha Brown is the co-founder of Black Votes Matter and she's talking about how

0:38.6

activism is different for her than for the leaders of the 1960s movement.

0:44.5

Brown was one of the people at the Civil Rights Retreat I went to at Sunnylands in California

0:48.5

this past January.

0:50.2

The retreat was organized by Clarence B Jones.

0:53.0

You may remember him from earlier in this series

0:56.0

as the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr's lawyer

0:58.0

who smuggled out the letter from Birmingham jail.

1:01.0

Jones is now 88 years old old and he organized this retreat to bring together

1:06.0

civil rights veterans like himself, people like Andrew Young, Bernard Lafayette,

1:11.0

Minnie Jean Brown Tricky, and others who've heard throughout the series.

1:16.0

So we know we are the surviving members.

1:19.1

Sometimes I've heard this religious term disciples use which makes me uncomfortable not because I'm not

1:26.8

religious disciples of Dr King's leadership.

1:31.6

Jones called them to join together with the next generation of civil rights leaders like

1:35.8

Latasha Brown for a specific purpose.

1:38.7

I mean, I don't have to tell you.

1:40.1

You have to come to all this distance just to say say okay. We're going what we want

1:44.3

celebrate Martin so forth. No no no no no no no no no he wouldn't want us to do that you

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