Back to the kids. Is there a generation of 8 or 9yearolds capable of doing what those kids did then . Particularly, wrarches to the common core, force feed confidence in the generation coming up, are we losing any way of them in the history, the culture that they are going to need to question are deemphasizing citizen in the core curriculum in the United States. You could turn it around and say, if youre in my generation and benefited, i think the breakthrough in birmingham in 19633 opened up doors for equal citizenship for young people doing something for us, we do something for them to restore education and really studying and not approaching young people on the basis of what we may have heard. Some young people are far more liberated and natural in their views and apt kuwaited prejudices, and they are free of them, but some are trapped in them, and they are not educated. We have to encourage the good part and try to rescue our education so that it makes the kind of citizenship examp
Professor. They spoke at the 2014 organization of american historians annual meeting in atlanta. This is about 90 minutes. S an hour and a half. Thank you all for being here. My name is jim campbell. I teach history at Stanford University. It is my privilege and my great pleasure to introduce todays panelists after which im going to shut up. A couple of ground rules. The reason that there are these blinding lights, this event is being recorded by c span, so one consequence of that is they have asked that we use the microphone for questions from the floor. Im afraid theres only one, so my hope would be that i hope we dont get one of these endless cues, but if you do have a question and are able, please come forward and speak into the microphone with your questions. If you are not able, well try to get the microphone to you. The speaker will speak, i hope, i expect quite briefly, and we will then throw this open into a conversation. It is as all of you know if youve been watching your c
His great grandfather in fact was a founder of new africa, an all black colony established in the mississippi delta in the 1880s. If you know where to look urk still see a road sign. After his freshman year at howard, he got on a bus to go to a civil rights training meeting in houston, texas. Stopped off in jackson, and basically never left. As dory ladner says, he got gamed. Charlie would work as a snik organizers chiefly in Sunflower County in the delta. He would in 1964 be one of the primary architects of the mississippi summer project, though he was also someone who opposed the project. It was, im sure many of you have seen this document, this was charlie who wrote the prospectus for the freedom schools, schools intended in his words to fill an intellectual and create a vacuum in the lives of young negro mississippianss and so get them to articulate their own demands and questions. Hes remained an activist in the decade first and he has also worked as a journalist for National Publ
One of their widows was part of a Panel Discussion on the freedom summer. This is an hour and a half. Thank you all for being here. My name is jim campbell. I teach history at Stanford University. It is my privilege and my great pleasure to introduce todays panelists after which im going to shut up. A couple of ground rules. The reason that there are these blinding lights, this event is being recorded by c span, so one consequence of that is they have asked that we use the microphone for questions from the floor. Im afraid theres only one, so my hope would be that i hope we dont get one of these endless cues, but if you do have a question and are able, please come forward and speak into the microphone with your questions. If you are not able, well try to get the microphone to you. The speaker will speak, i hope, i expect quite briefly, and we will then throw this open into a conversation. It is as all of you know if youve been watching your c span today, this is a signal day in america
In the Lower East Side of manhattan. She worked along her husband. Michael and rita in 6364. Drove to mississippi in their vw beetle. Opened up their cofo center in the 4th Congressional District in meridian, mississippi. There they endured in extraordinary harassment, which culminated when michael along with his companions were murdered. Rita she continued to work in the movement thereafter. She participated in the Mississippi Free democratic parties. I believe she gathered affidavits for a suit brought by arthur kanoy, another name that should be remembered here today, trying to get the federal officials to intervene against local Law Enforcement in the state of mississippi. She practices as a lawyer. She is today a principal at skellinger and bender in seattle. She and her husband, bill bender are teachers. She went back to mississippi and taught a course on education at university of mississippi and are currently teaching a course at seattle law school. Last but not least, is charl