Guest well, the Civil Rights Commission started in 1957. President eisenhower had a lot of discussions with john foster dulles, secretary of state about the way the United States is seen around the world because of the racism going on, that people would hear about and read about and the fact that there seemed to be a lot of episodes that kept happening, whether as lynching or some discrimination taking place in the country. So the idea was eisenhower said he was going to ask congress to set up a Civil Rights Commission, which would put the facts on top of the table. Im told by one of the people who was at the meeting that he slammed the table and said there are the facts on top of the table. And Commission Says we know who do policy sometimes set up because theres a tough problem and people dont want to do anything about it. They get a report on it goes away. This commission was supposed to put the facts on top of the table and then its future would depend on what i found out, how aggr
Then finally, when i was 25, i took my fathers name. Cspan where did you get the name skippy . Guest from the time i was born the day i was born, my uncle raymond called me skipper, and then it became skippy. We were piedmonts on the river piedmont, West Virginia, is on the Potomac River, two hours west of washington, so theres a whole marine mentality there, and so i became the skipper. Cspan before we go back and talk about the past, what are you doing now . Guest im the chairman of afroamerican studies at harvard and a professor of english. Cspan and how long have you been doing that . Guest this is the beginning of my fourth year. Cspan you write to your daughters in the beginning and you suggest that, eventually, after going through all the different names, they may get back someday to calling people of africanamerican descent or whatever colored. Do you really think so . Guest yeah, it could well be. I mean, Stranger Things have happened. You see, most people dont realize that we
Doing supplies and i was in an ordinance company. I was in an ordinance unit, rather, and my company was the largest of the unit. I could order a pen. I could order a machine gun. M 60s. Order i mean, these things were on the on paper. It is very interesting, the accounting for these incredibly weapons,nd powerful and at the same time, i need a royal a roll of toilet paper, some tissue. Its ironic. At the same time, you have unit. Upply you work with alphas. Alphas also work with the warehouse. Juliet was medical supply officers. It was a small world amongst the logistics family. We all kind of knew each other and knew how to get to each other, versus in different aspects of the military, the job can be a little more secular and separated. ,o this was more like professionally, a bit more of a happy family. There were strange aspects of it, but then, when you take that its a different situation, because the budget. Tself would fluctuate there were times when we did not have the supplies
There in the winter of 2010, and the vegetation is very bare during the winter in the south. The enemy was relatively quiet. There we got into the spring of 2010, the vegetation starts to come back. This is an area where growing poppy was really important to the local economy. It also helped to give the foreign fighters cover and concealment to be able to move freely through southern afghanistan. So, i went out on a flight with one of our pilots. Wanted me to see what they saw and how much they could actually detect. From up in their aircraft and flying fast. We flew through there and it was incredible. There were areas where these were five feet high. When the enemy has the advantage of having lived there forever. The Friendly Forces have a disadvantage in that they get there and there are these five foot high grape rows they have to navigate over that the enemies have to navigate through. We learned from the summer months of heavy fighting to crack the code on how the enemy is operat
Others in an transformation of the Ongoing Services in the transformation to this. Very Little Information was available with what was going on in iraq in terms of what the women were doing. They told us there were primary sources of information of the way the women were being used in iraq. Since then a new generation of combat veteran women have emerged welcome home from these conflicts. They have gotten organized and are changing the narrative. They are raising Critical Issues including Sexual Harassment. It is visible on the radio, television and film. But that i will like to get started in and have the opportunity to hear some more of their stories. I am going to introduce each panelist briefly and then we will start with the questions. Nicole beaudoin all the way down at the end. She listed in the u. S. Army in 2001. She was deployed to iraq in july 2003 for 5 months. She was featured in the documentary when i came home. She lives in new york city where she is raising her daughter