Trevor Hughes

These are crops that are irrigated with Colorado River water.

And when we don't have enough of that water, the crops just don't grow as well.

That means there's more scarcity, which means the prices go up.

And so if you live on the East Coast and you're eating beef that comes from California, you may end up paying more, even though you've got plenty of water right outside your door.

Yeah, good to be here.

This is one of those stories that feels like it's from the ancient past, but it is not.

This was 1960.

Jesse Jackson was home from college.

He was studying divinity, and he needed a book from the library.

Now, at the time, segregation was legal under the Jim Crow laws, and the book he needed was in the white only library.

He tried to borrow it.

They wouldn't let him, even though it was just steps away.

They told him to come back maybe a week later, and they would have it available.

So with a few friends, he did something audacious.

They walked into the white library, started reading books.

They sat down and read books.

They weren't talking.

They weren't hassling people.

They just sat and read.

And it so offended the community that these young men and women were arrested for violating the law.