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Justice. When poor people marched on washington, the 68 campaign in black and brown. I will introduce the speakers briefly and then they can come up and begin the discussion. So the first person ill introduce is Gordon Mantler, whos an assistant professor at George Washington university specializing in the history and rhetoric of 20th century social Justice Movements and the africanamerican and Latino History of the United States as well as an oral history and history of film. His first book and...

This first presentation is called when poor people marched on washington, the 1968 campaign in black and brown. I will introduce the speakers, and then they can come up and begin the discussion. So, the first person i will introduce is gordon who is an Gordon Mantler who is an assistant professor at George Washington university specializing in the history and the rhetoric of 20th century social Justice Movements and the africanamerican and latino experience in the united states, as well as oral ...

Captioning performed by vitac heres a great read to add to your Summer Reading list. Sundays at 8 00, account a co of stories. I always knew there was a risk in the lifestyle and i decided to take it because whether its an illusion or not, i dont think it is. It helped my concentration. It stopped me being bored and other people being boring to come extent. It made me want to prolong the conversation, to enhance the moment. If i was asked would i do it again, the answer is probably yes. Id have ...

Baseball. We played so for love, and we played for pride. Ma and we said and made much more. The hotelmo bugs, the roads whe crowds dont roar. The city life came with the lifs i chose, but we made due and came through because dammit we m were pros. N we played in the shadow of the s babe, lou gehrig, and the rest. G thenstad behind that big leagued fence while they were called the best. But we played them well, and we gave them hell with every hit tm and pitch. Then stayed behind that colored li...

Game. They had to get themselves to d the game and t they had to buy their uniforms. Y t are you aware of how the players got paid . Oh, sure. The fortunate thing if you were playing for the kansas city monarchs, you are essentially y playing for the new york yankees of the negro league. Wilkin so wilkinson always paid his players. I have run into players over to years who told me that theyre t still waiting for their check from a game they played in 1928. But that wasnt the case with wilkinson....

Youll sink like a stone oh, the times they are a changing here at the lbj library we are in our temporary exhibit gallery, which we are featuring the from the sixtys exhibit. Within the exhibit itself as the title suggests we highlight 60 americans that had a great impact on the nation and are still relevant within the 21st century. Some of these people are bob dylan, president lyndon johnson, barbara streisand. We have science. We have the apollo 11 crew, for being the first humans on the face ...

Corrected by reconstruction. This was the constitution that was written in 1875, and interestingly, texas still operates under this constitution today, even though it has had hundreds of amendments to make changes to it. We can flip to the signature page of the document, which contains all of the original signatures from 1876. As you can imagine, these are many of the most prominent men of their day. While this document addressed some issues of inequality, of course, these problems did not go aw...

The torch has been passed to a new generation of americans. I have a dream that one day and we shall overcome. [applause] come, gather round, people wherever you roam and admit that the waters around you have grown and accept it that soon youll be drenched to the bone if your time to you is worth savin then you better start swimming or you will sink like a stone for the times, they are achanging here at the obj library we lbj library we are in our temporary exhibit gallery, which we are featurin...

This country because they want that future for their children and believe in the promise of this country. They taught really important values that have been our guide for all our lives, for me and my siblings, my six brothers and sisters. But they taught us the importance of family, of faith of Community Hard work sacrifice, honesty, integrity. All of these were important values that they shared with us. On cspans q a. All weekend long, American History tv is joining with our Time Warner Cable p...

We want to start off today with a debate closer to home gas prices. Congress is considering raising the federal gas tax. The money could be used on bridges and infrastructure. We want to get your thoughts and comments on this issue. You can also join in on the conversation, many already have, on our Facebook Page. Or send us a tweet. Good sunday morning to you. Front page of the Washington Post focusing on two big stories. First of all, in france, the Prime Minister saying that the country is at...