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Something on monument avenue that does not reflect that segregationist past. The result was this arthur ashe statue, which is pretty big. Not as big as jeff davis, but its pretty big. Its pretty large. So moving away from virginia, though, im sort of curious yeah, matt . In doing a paper, i actually came across an article that was in the southern southeastern geographer, and the article explored the symbolic meaning of lee to the city. This is about richmond. It is now mostly africanamerican. An...

He gave a speech which i wont quote at length. But wallaces speech was very, very clear. The country should, quote, look to the south, end quote, as the true defender, quote, of the rights of states and individuals. Wallace also said that the country was on the brink of civil warfare. That also is a quote. And told his colleagues in the senate that if they passed a public accommodations bill, mandating that public accommodations be open, regardless of color, this is wallace, quote, you should ma...

Professor marisa chappell. This is 1 hour 45 minutes. So, today were talking about the war on poverty, and the urban crisis in the late 1960s in the United States. And were looking at the ways in which the black Freedom Movement raised the issues of poverty, and of racial disadvantage. Really to a level of national attention, and National Action that we havent really seen at any time since. So i want to start just by well, first i should lead you through the outline quickly. Well talk about the ...

White and black poverty in 1959 and 1968. Not a hard graph to interpret. What do you see . Cara . In 1968, poverty had declined a lot. But still black poverty is a lot higher than white poverty. And its still probably like that today. So there was change, but it wasnt theyre not equal. Yes. So we see progress for both groups over this time. But as you say, we continue to see a disparity. Any other comments on this graph . All right. I want to show you a little more detail here. And i want you to...

The arsenal at harpers ferry. There is no mention of the there thought of freeing the slaves. T theres none of that. None of it does it imply. Does it imply that it was a good thing . Oh, no. Its almost encyclopedic. A its one of those entries like e let me get the facts down and lets be done. Done. In fairness, most were done like that. Its odd they would have fas commemorated that. The it, too, is part of john t brown is part of kind of a segregationist memory,ever white supremacist memory, as...

If plattsburgh had been lost, god knows what wouldve happened to this country. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] she also details the societal attitudes towards impoverished minorities at the time, focusing on the challenges faced by single mothers. This class is about an hour and 45 minutes. Ur 45 minutes. So, today were talking about the war on poverty, and the urban crisis in the late 1960s in the United States. An...

Certain citizens. And here when youve got citizens who have a liberty interest, their marriage already their marriage is done, children,e now got and those children deserve to have two parents and the state is now saying because of our commitment to democracy, were say no to you, and were just going to wait for you to come up with 7 million and reverse our constitutional amendment. In a few yearsou when you can pull off that kind of raising and that kind democratic action. The reality is that th...

Afternoon against her school in the georgetown synagogue. That is where rabbi barry freundelel is accused of illegally videotaping women as they undressed and went into a ritual bath. The lawsuit claims as a professor at georgetowns law school, he encouraged the student to write a term paper on the ritual bath and told her to research it by immersing herself on two different occasions. The suit says she is one of at least 100 women who might have been videotaped and says the school and the synag...

The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered this morning by our chaplain, father con roy . Conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Loving god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. Lord, you know there are Many Americans who look to the peoples house as uncertainty about the future of the economy and their livelihoods hang in the balance. Bless the members of the peoples house with the understanding that it is their work to develop the strategies and the plans to assu...

Those cars in the ordinary lanes. One person per car. You have this one person with all this steel and plastic and oil. It is ridiculous. Were figuring out ways to do that. Whether it is high speed rail or electric cars. The first will be rolling off the factory in treatments in the next few months in three months and in the next few months. Yes, the Innovative Companies are small. The electric cars the tanks are small but so is fairchild or in tal or hewlettpackard intel or hewlettpackard or st...