Professor taylor focuses on the 1954 u. S. Supreme Court Decision in brown v. Board of education, the integration of a high school in little rock, arkansas, and the 1960 sit in at a lunch counter in greensboro, North Carolina. Folks, welcome to this class in africanAmerican History. Were going Movement Origin our discussion of the Civil Rights Movement tonight. For those of you in this room who know who i am, but for others im Quintard Taylor and im a professor of history, American History at the university of washington. Ok, well get started. Last time last week we talked about world war ii and one of the things that i tried to emphasize was the fact that ordinary people were becoming much more militants or militant or aggressive in defending their civil rights. Im going to continue that theme tonight and, indeed, i think its even more so the case in the 1950s and 1960s that ordinary people became the engines of the Civil Rights Movement. We tend to think about the Civil Rights Moveme
City antifa and black lives matter have plunged portland into chaos. The leftist activists attacking citizens and destroying property and the mayor just grins at it all. Law enforcement under constant attack and today the police had to step in to clear two downtown parks of demonstrators trying to create their own autonomous zone. Businesses have lost millions of dollars because of the rioting and the looting. And federal buildings including the courthouse have been fire bombed and vandalized. Acting dhs secretary chad wolf today said that, quote, a federal courthouse is a symbol of justice, to attack it is to attack america. End quote. I would add to attack a city is to attack america. Federal dhs and doj officers and agents have been deployed to protect the courthouse and other federal buildings and to keep the mobs in check. The radical dems arent happy about that, they dont want the federal agents in portland for obvious reasons, because the feds of course will protect citizens and
City antifa and black lives matter have plunged portland into chaos. The leftist activists attacking citizens and destroying property and the mayor just grins at it all. Law enforcement under constant attack and today the police had to step in to clear two downtown parks of demonstrators trying to create their own autonomous zone. Businesses have lost millions of dollars because of the rioting and the looting. And federal buildings including the courthouse have been fire bombed and vandalized. Acting dhs secretary chad wolf today said that, quote, a federal courthouse is a symbol of justice, to attack it is to attack america. End quote. I would add to attack a city is to attack america. Federal dhs and doj officers and agents have been deployed to protect the courthouse and other federal buildings and to keep the mobs in check. The radical dems arent happy about that, they dont want the federal agents in portland for obvious reasons, because the feds of course will protect citizens and
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Emphasize was the fact that ordinary people were becoming much more militant and aggressive in defending their civil rights. Im going to continue that theme tonight and, indeed, i think its even more so the case in the 1950s and 1960s that ordinary people became the engines of the Civil Rights Movement. We tend to think about the Civil Rights Movement as Martin Luther king, jr. , fanny hammer and largerthanlife figures. The Civil Rights Movement was made up by ordinary people including and youll find out tonight a lot of College Students. A lot of College Students. In fact, in some ways the driving force of the Civil Rights Movement came from people who were probably no older than you in this room. I want you to remember that. College students were the main force in terms of the Civil Rights Movement. Okay. I want us to keep that in mind when we talk of the evolution of this movement. Ill begin the lecture by discussing the decade of the 1950s because the 1950s really provide, i think,