Transcripts For CSPAN3 Crowded Out 20150907 : vimarsana.com

This was how it was until the construction of the huge industrial plant that triggered the new life. Suddenly almost overnight the quiet suburb became a small city the. Just as the community changed, so did the classroom. One by one the class projects were removed to make room for more desks. More and more as the months went by. You see a classroom in a corridor. Another in a basement. You see a classroom being set up on the auditorium stage. The School Library taken out of circulation. Classes doubled up. You see a class operating in a nearby hot. A playground area designed for the safety of less than half this number. You attend the next meeting of the school board. There you sit among vacant chairs, of those who in the long run blame school policy, who are responsible for our schools. The school board and the superintendent try to meet the problems of overcrowding. As they strive for solutions, you begin to wonder, whose fault is it that kathy is not getting the best in education . Miss roberts . Suddenly you feel a desire to help. To try to work out these problems with your neighbors. Through your community organizations. Also because essentially you are a fair person, you begin to feel a sense of guilt about miss roberts. Guilt that grows, especially the next day when you hear from another teacher that miss roberts intends to resign. Louis stokes was elected to the u. S. Congress from ohio in 1968 and served for 30 years, the first africanamerican to have served that long in the house of representatives. Up next stokes details his journey from his depression era childhood in cleveland to the halls of congress. He also recalls the founding of the Congressional Black Caucus and early strategies to gain political power and influence. Louis stocks died on august 18, 2015 at the age of 90. This oral history is from the collection of the black cause cause foundation. Its an hour. Both my mother and my father had come from georgia. They came to cleveland as single persons. And they met there in cleveland and subsequently married. But both of them had left georgia seeking a little better life. They were a part of the great migration that took place in 1918, 20, so forth. And so in my mothers case, she had only an eighth grade education. She disliked being on the family farm where they were share croppers. And so she had come to cleveland, looking for a better way of life. But with only an eighth grade education, she could only hire herself out as a domestic. That is, she went into suburban homes with white families and scrubbed their floors and cooked their meals and washed their clothes and cleaned their homes. Things of that nature. My father, who probably had less than eighth grade education,