Page 477 - Integration News Today

The north this summer, it was cicero, illinois, a town chosen by dr. martin luther king as the pressure point in his open housing drive. >> dr. king takes the civil rights movement north to chicago. and the issue is housing. >> the northern scene was a far more complicated scene and did not have the advantage of the jim crow law. as a target. >> it was one thing for northern liberals when the issue was integration in selma. its quite a different thing when it was in cicero. >> if lets say 10 or ...

And i also realize that no one in this country is asking the white community in the south to be nonviolent. and that in a sense is giving them a free license to go ahead and shoot us at will. >> if there was a symbol of white anger at negro protest in the north this summer, it was cicero, illinois, a town chosen by dr. martin luther king as the pressure point in his open housing drive. >> dr. king takes the civil rights movement north to chicago. and the issue is housing. >> the northern scene w...

While just about 26% of the states population at the time was nonwhite. >> in the 1950s and 1960s, north carolina was gaining this reputation for peaceful integration as a southern state, it begins to target african-american girls and women often whod had children out of wedlock and were of modest means often on welfare. so it became a means of trimming the welfare rolls. >> the eugenics board was formally shut down in 1977, but it wasnt until 2002 that the state officially apologized for what i...

>> no, im not. >> why arent you? >> i just dont see this as a way of life. i never have. and i also realize that no one in this country is asking the white community in the south to be nonviolent. and that in a sense is giving them a free license to go ahead and shoot us at will. >> if there was a symbol of white anger at negro protest in the north this summer, it was cicero, illinois, a town chosen by dr. martin luther king as the pressure point in his open housing drive. >> dr. king takes the ...

Cicero, illinois, a town chosen by dr. martin luther king as the pressure point in his open housing drive. >> dr. king takes the civil rights movement north to chicago. and the issue is housing. >> the northern scene was a far more complicated scene and did not have the advantage of the jim crow law. >> it was one thing for northern liberals when the issue was integration in selma. its quite a different thing when it was in cicero. >> if lets say 10 or 20 families moved into cicero, which is a t...

Everybody did. medgar evers had an office just upstairs here. musicians like tommy johnson, sonny boy williamson too, and elmore james all played here and the likes of duke ellington, cab callaway, count basie and louie armstrong all took the stage at places like the crystal palace ballroom and the alamo on farish street. what happened? where did it all go? >> what killed it was integration. once we were able to break out of our own indigenous black-run businesses, the black-owned businesses die...

Elmore james all played here and the likes of duke ellington, cab callaway, count basie and louie armstrong all took the stage at places like the crystal palace ballroom and the alamo on farish street. what happened? where did it all go? >> what killed it was integration. once we were able to break out of our own indigenous black-run businesses, the black-owned businesses died. great for the black race but terrible for the black business. in fact, the only reason youre coming here right now is y...

Mr. mudd, always good to have you here. not going to talk about constitutional extension of authority with you. were going to talk about whats happening on the ground. first, lets start with whats seen as a threat which you may have a different take on. isis moves through the northwestern aspects of iraq. it starts gobbling up small places. the kurds come behind them and take kirkuk most notably. people say the kurds are moving through, its a threat but many on the ground there say this could be...

Buses for as long as there have been school buses and it was once it became a tool for integration that we had a problem with it. kids ride buses every day. i do think its clear that no one is willing to really do that anymore. so we do have to come up with other solutions. >> do you think part of this has to do with -- the thing that was so interesting to me in new york was what you see is in the absence of a plan to desegregate schools, in the absence of policy explicitly agitating for that, t...

Will have largely segregated schools and we want to make them equal though theyre going to be separate. that is in many senses across the partisan divide, ideological divide, thats the conversation were having in this country about educational equity right now. >> its unfortunate that not enough people have just acknowledged that integration is much cheaper than trying to turn around high poverty schools. only 1% of high poverty schools succeed. >> right. >> and meanwhile, integration is cheaper...