posted by the american folklife center at the library of congress. it is about an hour. i want to express our collective gratitude to the men and women who engaged in the struggle as members of sncc or naacp half a century ago and continue to keep the fires burning in the present day. we had the privilege of interviewing several of those remarkable individuals who joined the initiative known as the civil rights history project. we are indebted to them in ways that have not been fully acknowledged or articulated. i know some panelists are here. we have one or two other members also part of the freedom struggle. mulhollandand joe joan mulholland. the recordings are now available online. at halftime [laughter] at lunchtime, the sports metaphors, oozing out of every pore. at lunchtime, as we say in the library, you can check out some of the interviews. they are all live and available to you. if you have not done so, please avail yourself of that. it is great to have one o
there are 200 cash prizes for students and teachers totaling $100,000. for a list of rules, go to studentcam.org. next on american history tv, maria varela, a former member of the student nonviolent coordinating committee, shares her experiences from the civil rights movement of the 1960 s. this was the keynote address hosted by the american folklife center at the library of congress. it is about an hour. i want to express our collective gratitude to the men and women who engaged in the struggle as members of sncc or naacp half a century ago and continue to keep the fires burning in the present day. we had the privilege of interviewing several of those remarkable individuals who joined the initiative known as the civil rights history project. we are indebted to them in ways that have not been fully acknowledged or articulated. i know some panelists are here. we have one or two other members also part of the freedom struggle. joan mulholland. the recordings are now availab
the initiative. we are indebted to them in ways that none have not been fully a .allant or are reticulated we have i think one or two other members also part of the struggle. joan. this has been the critical and the principal incidents behind the recordings made on the web say on the webpage, and youtube channels. lunch time at halftime a sports metaphor comes in losing. at lunchtime, as we say in the out on, you can check the back monitor some of those interviews. they are all live and available to you. if you have not already done so, please avail yourself of that. it is great to have one of our lead interviewers to be the moderator for the final session. he will end the proceedings as he began them in february with glenn piercey. it is the organizing principle of having these people articulate what they went through in this symposium, so without further ado, let me introduce you to betsy peterson, director of the american folklife center. [applause] as he mentioned,
is african-american. we have made an important statement as a country. we have to continue to work at this thing. if we don t continue to step forward, we will go backwards. because the world is moving. to stand still is to go back. we have to keep moving forward. that s what the movement is about. moving forward, recognizing those changes we still have to make. host: a commemoration today on the 50th anniversary of bloody sunday. call american history tv at reverend lafayette, you were in selma, alabama several years right or to the marches, the events that happened in march of 1965. tell us how you ended up in selma, alabama p we heard the story about the x on the map marking selma off. you went anyway. what is the story there? what happened is those of us from asheville had decided that since we had the sit in movement and we continued the freedom rides, once we started the freedom rides, we decided if we would give a full-time for a couple of years, it would be like t
was not what woodson in tended. and so, we obviously owe the peopleof our higher to and so we obviously of the who d those who are descended from those people who worked for 246 years for nothing. we owed them something for that, but we owe them the story of themselves. we have been asked to expect that people can survive in good, sound psychological health, on ashes and obliterated history. when i was a child in richmond, virginia, weiss to have this phrase that we used all the time. from here to timbuktu. but, nobody knew what timbucktoo was. nobody knew the meaning of the word. didn t know where it was and didn t even know it was a place. timbucktoo of course was a crossroads of commerce but it was also a site the site of one of the world s first universities of san kora which was built before the blackmore s ilk the first university in spain at sala make a and 7-eleven a.d.. and so still in timbuktu you have all of these manuscripts written between five a.d. and 15 a.d.,