i spent six years in nashville. nashville, tennessee was the first city that i lived in. i grew up in rural, rural alabama. and going off to school there, i wanted to find a way to get in the way. i wanted to find a way to do something. when i heard dr. king speaking on the radio, i felt like he was speaking directly to me, saying john robert lewis, you too can do something. you can make a contribution. so, going to nashville and to highlander folk school prepared me to find a way. and i got involved in the sit-ins. brian: how did you know about highlander folk school? rep. lewis: attending meetings in nashville, attending school, a church. and people would say you can go to nashville. and from nashville, you can go and visit highlander folk school. they're training people. they're teaching people. and when i got a chance to go with a group of my schoolmates and classmates, i made the trip there. and it was there that i literally grew up. it taught me how to be prepared to sit-in. it taught me how to help organize. it -- i grew up, i literally grew up at the age of 18 and

i spent six years in nashville. nashville, tennessee was the first city that i lived in. i grew up in rural, rural alabama. and going off to school there, i wanted to find a way to get in the way. i wanted to find a way to do something. when i heard dr. king speaking on the radio, i felt like he was speaking directly to me, saying john robert lewis, you too can do something. you can make a contribution. so, going to nashville and to highlander folk school prepared me to find a way. and i got involved in the sit-ins. brian: how did you know about highlander folk school? rep. lewis: attending meetings in nashville, attending school, a church. and people would say you can go to nashville. and from nashville, you can go and visit highlander folk school. they're training people. they're teaching people. and when i got a chance to go with a group of my schoolmates and classmates, i made the trip there. and it was there that i literally grew up. it taught me how to be prepared to sit-in. it taught me how to help organize. it -- i grew up, i literally grew up at the age of 18 and

he was concerned about all of nashville. fights nashville. he wanted to bring the city together. i loved him. he inspired me. he lifted me. peter: we have a little less than an hour left. congressman john lewis also author and civil rights leader. rochester new york. please go ahead with your question or comment. guest: . [inaudible]. peter: i apologize. it's it difficult to hear you. there is break up in the phone. guest: let me take you off of the speakerphone. peter: we will put you on hold but we will come back and we will chat with you for just a minute and the control room. and we will get you back. speakerphones do not work. with all of the technology, it would make it a lot clearer for people to hear if you put it on handsets. melissa from tucson arizona. guest: hi. i'm an activist from the 60s in detroit. i spent my life studying from north maryland, and rosa parks, wonderful human beings. i live in tucson arizona . one of my at the ground zero for the civil rights movement. mexican-american studies and remain school district. a couple of years ago. for me this is on par

as lewis returned to nashville, he was determined to do something. and then he met the second role model who would change his life. >> jim lawson came to nashville, and he enrolled as a student at vanderbilt university divinity school. >> this unbelievable young man taught us the philosophy and the discipline of nonviolence. and he kept saying respect the dignity and the worth of every human being. even if someone beats you, throw you in jail, look them in the eye and respect them. >> lawson's group began sit-ins at lunch counters in downtown nashville in early 1960. lewis and the other students filled the counters, tried to order food and then took whatever abuse was hurled at them. when the 20-year-old lewis was arrested for the first time in february 1960, his parents were shocked. >> a lot of people of color at that time, they were afraid of what was going to happen. he could die. they could lose the land or any number of terrible consequences. >> but lewis and the other students continued their sit-ins. and after months of protests, the politici

i count it providential that as i moved to nashville, tennessee, dropping out of graduate school in nashville came people like kelly smith and andrew white and jeanette hays and helen roberts and delo res wilkerson and john lewis. and diane nash. ct vivian. marian berry. bernard lafayette. paulina knight. and and gentlemen angela butler. how we all gathered in the same city at the same time i count as being providential. we did not plan it. we were all led there. and when kelly smith and the nashville christian leadership council met in the fall of 1958, and we determined that if there's to be a second major campaign that will demonstrate the efficacy of satagria grata, love force, love truth that we would have to do it in nashville. and so, i planned as the strategist and organizer, a four-point strategic program to create the campaign. we decided with great fear in anticipation we would desegregate downtown nashville. no group of other people in the united states in the 20th century against the segregated system ever thought about desegregated downtown. tearing down the signs. ren vatding t

as lewis returned to nashville he was determined to do something. and then he met the second role model who would change his life. >> john lawson came to nashville and enrolled as a student at vanderbilt university divinity school. >> he taught us the philosophy in the discipline of nonviolence and he kept saying respect dignity and the worth of every human being. even if someone beats you, throws you in jail look them in the eye and respect them. >> lawson's group began sit-ins at lunch counters in downtown nashville in early 1960. lewis and other students filled the counters, tried to order food and took whatever abuse was hurled at them. when a 20-year-old lewis was arrested the first time in february 1960 his parents were shocked. >> a lot of people of color at that time were afraid of what was going to happen. he could die, they could lose the land or any number of terrible consequences. >> but lewis and the other students continued their sit-ins. and after months of protests the politicians and business leaders in nashville agreed to desegrega

as lewis returned to nashville, he was determined to do something. and then he met the second role model who would change his life. >> jim lawson enrolled at vanderbilt divinity school. >> this unbelievable young man taught us a philosophy. and he kept say respect the dignity and the worth of every human being, even if someone beat you, throw you in jail. look them in the eye and respect them. >> lawson's group began sit-ins at lunch counters in downtown na nashville in early 1960. lewis and the other students filled the counters, tried to order food and took whatever abuse was hurled at them. when the 20-year-old lewis was arrested for the first time in february 1960, his parents were shocked. >> a lot of people of color at that time, they were afraid of what was going to happen. he could die. they could lose the land or any number of terrible consequences. >> but lewis and the other students continued their sit-ins. and after months of protests, the politicians and business leaders in nashville agreed to desegregate lunch counters in may 1960. >> w

that's going to happen in nashville and it includes a message to america. then, to cookville, tennessee, where this year, tornadoes devastated the community there, but we will join them for a fireworks experience unlike they've seen in the past. and we're going to keep an eye on what you just said, mother nature has given us something to look at in the sky, in addition to these spectacular fireworks, we're going to keep an eye on the partial lunar eclipse, which is beginning right now. i mean, don, what are the odds? >> i know, lunar eclipse, full moon, i got fireworks going behind me. it's -- i mean, what a show we've had tonight. and there's still more. so, let's get right to our performance. carlos santana and cindy blackman santana share a special message and their take on john lennon's "imagine." >> now, more than ever, we need john's message of love, compassion and peace. john and yoko were visionary and still are. they brought us hope to bring us together and bring a healing. we know the world needs a hug and the world needs compassion, so, we hope t

but it was black women who made that decision for us in nashville. i was scared to death when we made that decision. i knew nothing about how we were going to do this. i had never done it before. but we planned the strategy. john lewis did not stumble in on that campaign. kelly miller smith, his teacher at abc, invited john to join the workshops in the fall of 1959 as we prepared ourselves to face violence, and to do action, to put on the map the issue that the racism and the segregation of the nation had to end. so, on the 60th anniversary of that sit-in campaign, which became the second major campaign of the nonviolent movement of america, those are not my words. john lewis called what we did between 1953 and 1973 "the nonviolent movement of america." not the crm. i think we need to get the story straight, because words are powerful. history must be written in such a fashion that it lifts up, truly, the spirit of the john lewises of the world. [applause] and that's why i have chosen just to see a few words about it. kelly miller smith invited john

as lewis returned to nashville, he was determined to do something. and then, he met the second role model who would change his life. >> jim larson came to nashville and he enrolled as a student at vanderbilt university divinity school. >> this unbelievable young man taught us the philosophy and the discipline of nonviolence. and he kept saying, respect the dignity and the worth of every human being. even if someone beats you, throw you in jail, look 'em in the eye and respect them. >> lawson's group began sit-ins at lunch kouscounters in nashvi in early 1960. lewis and the other students filled the counters, tried to order food, and then, took what ever abuse was hurled at them. when the 20-year-old lewis was arrested for the first time, in february 1960, his parents were shocked. >> like a lot of people of color at that time, they were afraid of what was going to happen. he could die. they could lose land. or any number of terrible consequences. >> but lewis and the other students continued their sit-ins. and after months of protests, the politician

he showed leadership in nashville as well. john lewis showed leadership because he was president of his class and d president ofof the student body at americican baptt theological seminary. he had that leadership ability all the time. he did not promote himself. others promomoted him. it was a student organization, so john was no longer a student. car r mild coal -- carmichael wanted to be the chairman because he wanted to take sncc wasp of sncc, but supposedly for stutudents. a dififferent i into didirection. it no longerer was students. -- students in those leadersrshp positions. the idea of black power -- we do not haveve time to do thisis, bt let me give you a hint of what was happening. stokely and i were cellmates of the freedom rides in jackson, mississippi. we stayed up all night arguing with eacach other abouout nonviolence. stokely also felt that black people should continue toto take leadership o of the voter registration movement and ththat kind of thing. unfortunately,y, blacks who had been sububjugated to segrega

first, i'd like to welcome you to nashville if you're not a nashville resident, welcome. welcome to the greatest library in america. run preciselyill told, so wei am will give both our authors 20 minutes to speak and we allocate 10 minutes for question-and-answer. i'm also admonished to remind you if you're really enjoying yourself, that the southern festival of books depends upon individual donations. if you really enjoy what you've seen over the past couple of days, i'd encourage you to donate as much as you can. we are in for a treat today. i asked these two jennifer bio -- gentleman for bios a couple of visio. they are esteemed scholars but also some of the most modest men that i've met. i will give you a brief and iuction to them encourage you to speak with them after the session ends. our first presenter this morning gorn.liott born chair and american urban history at loyola university in chicago. books author of five including a brief history of american sports, mother jones: the most dangerous woman in ride: thend "wild year that made america's public enemy number

because he started when he was a freshman in college in nashville. and he said, do what you -- if you see trouble, if you see injustice, speak up. speak out. stand up. keep going. the other story just very quickly, brian, so talking to him, you know, all the old stories were in his head. again, a kind of a biblical figure. one thing, like figures from the bible, his family, he grew up being robert lewis, and his family called him robert, still did. he became john when he joined the movement, and there's a biblical tradition of that, whether you're elijah or abraham or peter, where you receive a different name when you enter into a great mission. and one of the -- and he had a period of exile when he lost the control of the chairman step of the student nonviolent coordinating committee in 1966. and, remember, john lewis, who now seems this figure of the establishment, longtime congressman, we see the images of him in the corridors of power. he was the radical in 1963. when he went to the march on washington, he was the last surviving speaker at the ma

but it was black women who made that decision for us in nashville. i was scared to death when we made that decision. i knew nothing about how we were going to do this. i had never done it before. but we planned the strategy. john lewis did not stumble in on that campaign. kelly smith, his teacher at abc, invited john to join the workshops in the fall of 1959 as we prepared ourselves to face violence and to do direct action and to put on the map the issue that the racism and the segregation of the nation had to end. and so on the 60th anniversary of that campaign which became the second major campaign of the nonviolent movement in america, those are not my words, john lewis called what we did between 1953 and 1973 the nonviolent movement of america. not the crm. i think we need to get the story straight, because words are powerful. history must be written in such a fashion that it lifts up truly the spirit of the john lewises of the world. [ applause ] and that's why i've chosen just to say a few words about it. kelly smith invited john lewis. i met a

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women who madeck that decision for us in nashville. i was scared to death when we made that decision. i knew nothing about how we are going to do this. i had never done it before. strategy.anned the onn lewis did not stumble in that campaign. kelly lewis smimith, his teteacr to o join the john workshops in the fall of 1959 as we prepared ourselves to face violence, and do direct action, and to put on the map the issue that the racism and segregation of the nation had to end. so, on the 60th anniversary of the sit in campaign, which became the second major campaign of the nonviolent movement of america, those are not my words, john lewis called what we did and 1973, the nonviolent movement of america, not the crm. i think we need to get the story straight, because words are powerful. history must beritten in n such a fashion that it lifts up truly the spirit of the john lewis' of the world. [applause] that is why i have chosen just to say a few words about him, kelly lewis smith invited john lewis. i met a student who told me about a st

i continued to study in nashville and it was in the city of nashville as a student that many of us started attending nonviolence workshops, studying the philosophy of nonviolence, passive resistance. and civilhoreau disobedience studying the great , religions of the world. a group of black and white college students started sitting in at segregated lunch counters. and restaurants. we would sit there in an orderly, peaceful nonviolent , fashion waiting to be served, doing our homework and someone would come up and put a lighted cigarette out in our hair or down our backs, spit on us, pull us off the lunch counter stools, beat us. we did not strike back because we accepted nonviolence as a -- not simply as a technique or a tactic but as a way of life. ,my mother, my father my , grandparents and my great grandparents said to us over and over as children "do not get in trouble," but in nashville i got in trouble. it was good trouble. it was necessary trouble to make our country a better place. we believe in the constitution, we believe in the bill of rights, we believe in america, so we wanted

first i'd like to welcome you to nashville. if you're not a nashville resident, welcome, welcome. and welcome to the greatest library in america. this session will run precisely 50 minutes i am told. so we will give both our authors 20 minutes to speak, and we'll allocate ten minutes for question and answer. i was also admonished to remind you if you're really enjoying yourself this southern festival of books depends upon individual donations. so if you really enjoy what you've seen over the past couple of days i'd encourage you to donate as much as you can. we're in for a treat today. i asked these two gentlemen for bios a couple of days ago. they're esteemed scholars but they're also some of the most modest men that i've met. so i'll give you a brief introduction of them and introduction to them, and i encourage you to speak with them after the session ends. our first presenter this morning is elliot gorn. professor gorn is the joseph a. gagliano chair in american history in chicago. he's the author of five books. these include "the manly art", "a brief history of american sport

i'm here in nashville, tennessee. i couldn't bring the band in here with me, because we are social distancing, but i did want to sing my new song for you, "girls like me." ♪ i remember that first time i fell in love ♪ ♪ i've never been the one to be afraid to jump ♪ ♪ and sometimes it hurts ♪ but the world still turns ♪ i remember that first sad broken heart ♪ ♪ and i told myself i wouldn't fall apart ♪ ♪ so i let it burn ♪ that's how you live and learn ♪ ♪ it ain't always easy ♪ but it's gonna be all right ♪ it used to be me ♪ hiding insecurities ♪ with a cigarette and a bottle of whiskey ♪ ♪ i was a girl at home ♪ in the dark all alone ♪ saying why the hell doesn't he miss me ♪ ♪ we act so tough like i ain't nothing ♪ ♪ cause we don't want them to see ♪ ♪ here's to the girls like me ♪ ♪ fast forward ♪ now your old dreams are gone ♪ and you got new priorities ♪ you thought you knew what you wanted ♪ ♪ but you had it all wrong ♪ yeah it takes a fe

nashville does have a mask requirement. they are leaving it up to local authorities and for personal responsibility. so as a behavioral scientist, how important is personal responsibility when people are left up with that do they actually -- and i can see you're shaking your head and shrugging your shoulders, i guess that's the answer? >> i mean, personal responsibility is everything right now. i think it is really important for all of us not to be judgmental of ourselves or judgmental of other people. we are living through some really tough, really uncertain times, and our psychology just isn't built to handle that. we have had the longest bull market of all time in the united states. we're coming off that. we're used to so much security and so much stability, and now that's been turned on its head. it is really normal that we will see all kinds of reactions among consumers. some people playing it super safe and some people doing just the opposite. i think rather than sitting around and point fingers and judging each other

louis, indianapolis, minneapolis, cleveland, nashville, pittsburgh, columbus and baltimore. we are tracking this very closely. we're working with state officials to make sure we are responding together, but when you first see that increase in positivity, that's when you have to do mitigation efforts. >> that's how that went. 1.4 million americans filed first time unemployment claims last week, first week to week increase since late march. it comes as expanded employment benefits that helped millions are set to expire. senate republicans propose to significantly reduce them. the president will likely face questions on this when he heads to the white house briefing room in a couple of hours for his third coronavirus task force briefing of the week. unclear if any other members of the task force will join him. as the trump administration faces intense criticism over its response to a real crisis, it is under fire for its handling of a crisis of its own creation. portland, oregon mayor ted wheeler was among those tear gassed after he joined a crowd of demonstrators outside the c

and it's nashville where he and diane nash and other people started the national protest. and it's nashville where my little brother, my youngest brother, whoas 12 years old, heard on the radio them taing about it and ran out of school and took all of his classmates with him and ran down to sit ine so, he was tthat-- at american baptists is-- is-- is relevant to all of our lives. jim lawson, who taught them about nonviolence right there in shville. and after that, even until the present, john lewis, from time to time, pops up at things that i'm doing, he's doing. we encounter each other, see each other, even in recent he became the warrose reputation from getting hit over the head down there on the bridge and all the other things that he did could be relied upon in policy discussions to get-- make the statement or give you the support that people would say, "well, okay, if you got l jois on your side, i guess maybe we ought to talk about doing that." was principled. he did what he thought he should do. but if he thought somebody else knew more than he did or had more exper

i counted providential, and as i moved to nashville, tennessee, dropping out of graduate school, in nashville came people like kelly miller smith and andrew white and jeanetta hayes and helen roberts and deloris wilkerson and john lewis and e diane nash, ct vivian, marion barry, lafayette, paulina knight, angela butler. how all of us gathered in 1958 and '59 and '60 and '61 and '62 in the same city at the same time i count as being providential. we did not plan it. we were all led there. and when kelly miller smith and the nashville leadership council met in the fall of 1958 and we determined that if there's to be a second major campaign, that will demonstrate the efficacy of satya graha of soul force, of love truth, that we would have to do it in nashville. and so i planned as the strategist and organizer a four-point gandhiing strategic program to create the campaign. we decided with great fear we would desegregate downtown nashville. no group of people or anywhere in the united states in the 20th century bence the rapaciousness of a segregated system ever thought about desegregating downto

only $24.00 left because nashville is out and alice is out because $10.00 tighter positive vote is just a positive yes a lot of what man highlights that's cool we got some white hot it's terrible you know looks like right exactly. that's our news thanks so much for being with us i'm rick sanchez we'll be looking for you again next time as we like to do is get you in. the past 3 presidential election cycles demonstrate voters are against foreign force and foreign nation building nonetheless both remain high priority for the beliefs why is this our voters say foreign policy any exactly why should u.s. and allied forces stay and. so we were. going to. move. them on those who just can stuff it up or they think i didn't hear that oh. i'm talking about is a very international community. media used to try to play. with this is going to get this this stuff that i need to. go to push them as they were used to look at the results for their nuclear cooperation is everything because he was the loser with the intensity do with the of the media. it was a love hate that was affected all day but i deci

taken the immoral signs off of made that decision for us, in nashville. i was scared to death, when we made that decision. i knew nothing about how we were going to do this. i'd never done it before. but we planned the strategy. john lewis did not stumble on the campaign. kelly lewis smith, his teacher at abc invited john, to join the workshops, in the following 259, as we prepared ourselves to face violence. we put on the map, the issue that the racism and segregation, of the nation had to end. and so in anniversary which began the second major campaign of the non-violent movement of america, those are not my words. john lewis called what we did between 1953 and 1973, the non- violent movement of america. not the crm. we need to get the story straight. words are powerful. history must be written in such a fashion that it lifts up truly the spirit of the john lewis's of the world. that is why i have chosen to say a few words about. i had a student tell me about a student from chicago. they wanted to do something about those vicious signs. i said, invite d

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flight and also a big plane to do it every night with different planes and not use now we're here in nashville so let's go get our baggage. please. former transportation official jamie finch giving us. on the ground and in the air look at what it's like to actually travel right now well done jamie this is the news rick sanchez you're watching our special coverage when we come back dr lisa paula joins us to discuss as well how to cope with the code blue we're here for you will be right back. something for you your sports. oh oh. an ocean of stories even the news. can overwhelm you. your way i know you want to. bring you the bad. play. the questions. numbered as. lists as this and bring all in so just get. in question. i'm a journalist it's all i know being a truth teller people say i make among come from good news is like a jackhammer good drill down i think find the truth news with rick sanchez because it's time to do news again and question more. like it bluntly hosts ask a question for the guests and then actually listens to the yes answer and then react to that that's a folks that are still

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city versus into miami they're kicking off tonight in just a few hours however nashville will be out of play so we're seeing some problems with the bubble already and there's actually some talk about a sports epidemiologist his name has actually been a he he was kind of he was insinuating that there might be some problems with the bubble and there is a solution for it that the n.b.a. might want to consider and take a listen to what he had to say. what i think is necessary is what i'm calling you to the ball so that would be n.b.a. or n.h.l. teams isolating in their markets in a hotel for 5 to 7 days so that everybody is not picking up more cases from the community you are waiting to let the client show itself and if the case doesn't show you either have to restart the clock at 5 to 7 days for everybody less everybody has been isolating in their own room in the hotel in which case you can just remove the person player or staff who tested positive and everybody else can still go on to travel. so there you have it the most difficult part of saying is getting everybody into the bubble un

he paid that price at every nashville lunch counter where his leadership made segregation impossible to ignore. he paid it in every jail cell where he waited out hatred and oppression. he paid that price in harassment and beatings from a bus station in south carolina to the edmund pettus bridge. john lewis lived and worked with urgency, because the task was urgent. but even though the world around him gave him every cause for bitterness, he stubbornly treated everyone with respect and love. all so that as his friend, dr. king, once put it, community at itself. today we pray and trust that this peacemaker himself now rests in peace. all of john's colleagues stand with his son, john miles, their family and the entire country in thanking god that he gave our nation this hero it needed so badly. may all of us that he will leave behind under this dome pray for a fraction of john's strength to keep bending that arc on toward justice. >> ladies and gentlemen, the honorable nancy pelosi, speaker of the united states house of representatives. >> to the family of john lewis, welcome to the rot

what's going on in nashville? >> welcome one of the things that we are hearing is mayor mayor cooper has a coronavirus task force and what i'm hearing from elected officials and health care professionals, that they have been very inconsistent and very ineffective in trying to work with the community and slow the spread. to have the mask mandate in place and as you pointed out, the hot spot in tennessee is nashville. and it is primarily -- when you look at the breakdown of what is happening, the demographic group 21-30-year-olds. that is the group where you have the largest number of cases. >> shannon: all right, i want to try to get to another hot topic with you, let's talk about china, because listen, this is what -- the politico headline says this, as gillian turner was just reporting, china refuses to commit to closing houston consulate. you've been very critical of them and talking about the idea of untangling u.s. businesses from china. to that point, the sporting news says this. if she's going to blast the n

organizing sit-in demonstrations at segregated lunch counters in nashville, tennessee. in 1961, joining in the freedom rides, which challenged segregation at interstate bus terminals across the south. >> i was not concerned about making history. i just wanted to change things. >> reporter: while still in his 20s, john lewis became a nationally recognized leader. >> i grew in the movement to accept the way of love, the way of peace, the way of non-violence, the way of forgiveness. >> reporter: by 1963, he was dubbed one of the big six leaders of the civil rights movement. at the age of 23, he was an architect of and a keynote speaker at the historic march on washington. >> i have a dream today. >> reporter: but it was in 1965 when lewis helped spearhead one of the most seminal moments of the civil rights movement. he led more than 600 peaceful protesters against the edmund pettus bridge in selma, alabama, marching in support of voting rights. the group brutally beaten by alabama state troopers in what became known as bloody sunday. >> i lost consciousness. 50 years later

what is going on in nashville? >> reporter: one of the things we are is mayor cooper has a coronavirus task force and what i'm hearing from elected officials and healthcare officials is their very inconsistent and ineffective in trying to work with the community and slow the spread, to have the mask mandate in place and as you point out the hotspot in tennessee is national and when you look at the breakdown of what is happening, the demographic group, 21-30-year-olds, that is the group where you have the largest number of cases. shannon: the political headlines is just what you missed them in china refuses to commit to closing the houston consulate. you've been very critical of them and talking about the idea of untangling us from china. the news says this, she's going to blast the nba should memphis business interests escape the notice given the company sued the trump administration in 2019 in a dispute over trade rules mandating they inspect every package shipped from the country. where are you on china? is a con

and dared to dream that one day they could be a part of this wonderful thing that was happening in nashville, tennessee i know because i was one of them. >> reporter: his flammable fiddling helped make country rock mainstream. ♪ and i'm the best that's ever been ♪ >> reporter: so popular the charlie daniels band was featured in the 1980 film "urban cowboy" with john travolta it soon had everyone trying on hats and boots. ♪ i bet a fiddle of gold against your soul ♪ >> reporter: daniels joined the grand ole opry in 2008. >> you're officially invited to become a member of the grand ole opry. >> reporter: and was inducted into th country music hall of fame in 2016 born in north carolina, he played with bob dylan, the marshall tucker band johnny cash and more charlie daniels died of a stroke at his nashville home he was 83. and if anyone could have beaten the devil in a fiddle duel, it was him. >> long live country music. god bless music city thank you. good night >> reporter: kevin tibbles, nbc news. >> and that's "nbc nightly news" for this monday i'm lester holt. for all of us at nbc

because he started when he was a freshman in college in nashville. and he said, do what you -- if you see trouble, if you see injustice, speak up. speak out. stand up. keep going. the other story just very quickly, brian, so talking to him, you know, all the old stories were in his head. again, a kind of a biblical figure. one thing, like figures from the bible, his family, he grew up being robert lewis, and his family called him robert, still did. he became john when he joined the movement, and there's a biblical tradition of that, whether you're elijah or abraham or peter, where you receive a different name when you enter into a great mission. and one of the -- and he had a period of exile when he lost the control of the chairman step of the student nonviolent coordinating committee in 1966. and, remember, john lewis, who now seems this figure of the establishment, longtime congressman, we see the images of him in the corridors of power. he was the radical in 1963. when he went to the march on washington, he was the last surviving speaker at the ma

making his network tv debut, billy strings will perform from nashville. and tune in for the rest of the week with guest hosts nikki glaser, george lopez, and magical forest sprite sean hayes. my guest tonight is the greatest thing to happen to the pacific northwest since fir trees. he's a super bowl champion, seven-time pro bowler, and my favorite russell ever. joining us now, the quarterback of the seattle seahawks, number 3, russell wilson. >> joel, good to see you. i see we're doing something very similar. you're in the suit and tie, i'm out here getting the rays, while you're sipping on, i guess that's coffee. >> this is pool water, russell. it's very nice. >> sure it is. >> it's too bad you're not staying in shape during covid. i'm sorry that you let yourself go. >> hey, listen, i see you're covering yourself up, is what i see. >> that's very true. i thought you were guillermo for a second. i joke. russell, first of all, thank you for bringing a super bowl to seattle. it was greater than the birth of my children. and my children are watching. so than

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he helped organize the nashville campaign in 1960. he and other young men and women sat at a segregated lunch counter. well-dressed, straight backs, refusing to let a milk shake poured on their heads or a cigarette extinguished on their their a foot aimed at let that damage their dignity and sense of purpose. after a few months, the nashville campaign achieved the first successful desegregation of public facility of any major city in the south. for the a taste of jail first, second, third -- well, several times. [laughter] but he also got a taste of victory. and it consumed him with righteous purpose. and he took the battle deeper into the south. that same year, just weeks after the supreme court ruled that segregation of interstate bus facilities was unconstitutional, john and bernard lafayette bought two tickets, climbed aboard a greyhound, sat up front, and refused to move. this was months before the first official freedom ride. he was doing a test. trip was unsanctioned. few knew what they were up to. and at every stop through the