Fbi of a ku klux klan informant by the name of thomas wrote. He described how he participated in beatings of civil rights activists during the freedom writers movement. Freedom riders movement. Did you inform the fbi about planned violence prior to that incident . Gary i gave the fbi information roughly three weeks before. And what did you tell them . Gary i stated i had been contacted by a Birmingham City detective, who wanted me to meet with a highranking officer of the Birmingham Police department. You mean the Birmingham Police men set up the beating of the freedom riders, and you told the fbi that . Gary correct. And were they beaten . Very badly, yes. Minutes withsed 15 absolutely no intervention from any Police Officer. The information was passed on to the bureau. We had our 15 minutes. Approximately 15 minutes after the freedom riders were attacked, a Police Officer went damn it,d said, god fam get them out of here, we are sending the crew in. Let me have you underscore what ex
I am Program Manager of the Common Ground initiative. I am pleased to usher in our first session and introduce our first speaker. At the risk of sounding too cheerful, i must say that beginning with friendship kicks off the possibility of Common Ground between progressives and conservatives. It does seem unlikely that the buckleymailer relationship has an equivalent today. Seeing as we have historians and public intellectuals such as our speaker writing eloquently and persuasively about such friendship, the prospect seems far from lost. Our speaker, Kevin Schultz is the author of buckley and mailer. He is an associate professor of history, cap at studies at the university of catholic studies at illinois in chicago, winning several awards for his teaching on the f no racial and intellectual history ethno racial and intellectual history of america. Receiving his phd from berkeley in 2005, he began an academic and public intellectual career. He has published articles in journal of America
Cutting out, as you remember, africanamericans with the idea that africanamericans are corrupting the vote because they want handouts from the government. Theyre cutting out laborers because of the idea that organized labor also wants a handout from the government. Theyre not always even so sure about the robber barrens because theyre concerned they are the industrialists are switching the congress and legislatures to unfairly benefit them. Theres a lot of people like susan b. Anthony said that maybe shouldnt have a say, maybe they shouldnt they should be taken into consideration. Maybe class should be taken into consideration. Maybe education should be taken into consideration. But women are good wives and mothers. Theyre going to vote the right way, so long as they are wives and mothers. In 1890, the year after that, mind you, theres no direct correlation. Im just giving you the line here. The National Womens Suffrage Association, american National Womens Suffrage Association merge t
Between america and the american government. So once the war is over and this is a good day to talk about this, today is the anniversary of the firing on fort sumter. Everybody has different ideas about what the nation is supposed to become. Weve really gone through a lot of that with ideas that African American men who fought for the union had ideas what america should be and certainly white southerners had ideas about what america should be. The northerners had ideas. The indians and chinese who were out west had ideas about what america should be. And certainly the northern men who had fought and won the war had ideas. About what the country should be. But the critical question as to what it was going to be was who was going to have a say in it. Weve gone through that as well. Who had a say in what that new nation was going to be was going to have a dramatic effect on what it eventually became. So today i want to talk about women and womens lives in the late 19th century and their r
Convention, and i found this and couldnt resist giving it to you, because here in this convention, when theyre talking about womens suffrage, mr. King says, im in favor of allowing the largest liberty to every citizen of the United States. Now, this is interesting because they have just blanket, without discussion, said chinese and indians cant vote, cant hold office, and cant sit on juries. No discussion. They let that one through. Here, he says, i firmly believe that a majority of women of this territory, or in any state of the union are just as well qualified for the right of suffrage as the average man, and here you go. And there are thousands, tens of thousands, and hundreds of thousands of women, 10,000 times Better Qualified than one half of the men who vote in these United States. So while im setting up here is the idea that at the very moment that americans are trying to figure out who should have a say in American Society, theyre cutting out, as you remember, africanamericans