ella baker had said, you know, this is about more than a hamburger. and it's more than about having a place for a place to go to the bathroom. but it was all those things. and the city change as a consequence of that sit in. the time was right, the people involved in it were right. . . and one of my conclusions which i describe in terms of my 40 years teaching at the university of virginia, the years i spent in south africa where i got to know many of the leaders there and the years i spent at the south's foremost civil rights information and advocacy agency, the southern regional council all persuaded me that change comes from below. when privilege is deeply ingrained. and there's so many many other interesting things in this book but i talked enough. [applause] >> okay. all right. and so will the questioners and the commenters also come up to the podium. oh, you got it. okay. oh, good. all right. questions, questions, comments? who's going to get us started? >> one of the things that you mentioned was how this affected the lives of the civil rights

ella baker thought they movement should be national. although she recognize segregation was a southern institution she understood racism was a national problem and she thought it should he addressed nationally. christian. ella baker was a devoted churchgoer but she thought the question of segregation was a political one less than it was a religious one and that the organization should be thinking in terms of politics. leadership. she dreamed of a mass movement not a movement of leaders and not a movement if he leads. she was particularly critical of creatures, who she thought were trained to speak to an audience, not with an audience. preacher stand on the pulpit and deliver sermons. she thought an organization should come from the bottom-up, not not the top down. and last was conference, which is kind of a funny word. the thing about the southern christian leadership conference was it was more an organization of organizations, which you as an individual could not join if you wanted to. organizations like the alabama human rights organi

van jones started the ella baker center, communist. you will be introduced to the international league of religious socialists. two clicks in socialist territory, one click we are in communist territory thaeupt is the social justice that these groups are fighting for and the kind of social justice that i think you need toch figt against. you are going to hear a lot of crazy things because faith, hope and charity are being rotted to the core. you are going to hearo) things because i'm going to take on social justice knits perverted way, glen -- in its perverted way. every issue this government is bringing up now is being framed as a moral issue, you heard that at the top, barack obama this is a moral issue we are about to go into immigration. it is a more issue. yes, it is. don't let that scare you. we are talking about the extreme left. now the extreme left is talking to me about moral issues. moral issues. didn't the extreme left have a problem with the moral majority? how about the christian coalition, weren't they in churches and t