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As i tell my history students, i teach at the City University of new york. [applause] thank you. As i tell my history students until they want to choke me, the past as is a foreign country. We can visit their. Try to learn the customs, translate the language, or quail at the fowler, but we are foreigners in this strange land. This is true as much of the recent past as it is of colonial america or 12th century venice. Writing about the recent past is not easy, as i learned at this time around. Th...

Father buy a tv. Because tvs was not a come thing in households at that time. So in order to keep one the struggle in our home state in alabama my mother made my dad buy a tv and every day watch Walter Cronkite report what was going on in the south. And my mother used to get so emotional. So mad. Because she seen bull conners. Racist police. Our people being hosed down and dogs being sicked on them just for trying to vote or attend a rally. My mother used to get so emotional. Back in those days,...

Every element of the grand strategy. Obviously they were discussing each other as well. And attitudes to the allies or potential allies at whatever point of the war youre talking about and in terms of what help might be gained from the americans. When you get round to what we call the transatlantic telephone , there you have something placed by an american telephone company, bell telephones, in mid1943. That was to give a secure telephone line that was potentially unstoppable, if you like, conne...

Hear from panelists on how people from different races Work Together and why the movement was largely remembered as being dominated by africanamericans. This event was part of a symposium to Mark National hispanic heritage month. Its an hour and 20 minutes. Thank you so much, everybody, were going to move on to our first panel discussion. We are presenting this symposium, called organizing across the boundariries in the struggle for civil rights and justice. When poor people marched on washingto...

Thank you so much, everybody, were going to move on to our first panel discussion. We are presenting this symposium, called organizing across the boundariries in the struggle for civil rights and 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 ...

Its an hour and 20 minutes. Thank you so much, everybody. Well move on to our first panel discussion. I should say my name is steve and im the writer and editor here at the library of congress and were presenting this symposium entitled organizing across the bound rice in the struggle for civil rights and justice. This first Panel Presentation is called when poor people marched on washington taerks , the 68 in black and brown. I will introduce the speakers briefly and then they can come up and b...

About how to rebuild our roads and bridges and infrastructure and put people back to work. They would much rather us talk about how we can boost wages and improve their individual family autumn lines. Bottom lines. If the republicans want to spend the entire next six months or year talking about repealing a bill that provides millions of People Health insurance, without inviting any meaningful alternative, instead of talking and Economic Situation of families across the country, that is their pr...

And he, in seventh grade, took a leave of absence to participate in bob kennedy, Robert Kennedys president ial campaign. So [applause] [laughter] it is called truancy. [laughter] i was trying to be diplomatic, here. Leave of absence. Second is mary hughes. Mary is a seasoned political strategist and author, who has focused her efforts on increasing the number of women in congress and state legislatures, especially california. [applause] fromhould know that 19842008, in the nine bay area counties...

That our deficits could be coming down faster. That we would have more customers in our shops, if we get this thing resolved. We know what the right thing to do is. It is a matter of political will. Not any longer a matter of policy. I will encourage them to get this done. As far as our actions, and jeh johnson, new head of the department of Homeland Security has been talking to everybody. Law enforcement, immigrant Rights Groups to do a thorough review of the approach towards enforcement, and w...

Summit with tavis smiley from cbs, Nicole Hanna Jones of republican a and eric dyson of Georgetown University and evan wolf son and look back at the Boston Marathon attack one year later. Plus an allstar panel of analysts. 60 years of news, because this is face the nation. Captioning sponsored by cbs schieffer good morning again, pro russian militants seized police stations in Eastern Ukraine, there is chaos and confusion today, ukrainian Officials Say gunfire was exchanged. Pistol lard of sky n...