To our speaker. To provide background, in 2012 house passed our office to compile oral histories from current and former numbers of congress involved in the selma to montgomery, alabama marches. We have been conducting interviews related to the Civil Rights Movement with members of congress, their family members house staff, and house pages. We wanted to use our oral histories in a creative way to connect the dots the an event that happened in the country and the corresponding legislative response. We created a documentary short. The documentary is in its final stages of production, so i do not have it today, but the three clips are brought would give you a taste of the documentary. The first is of representative from missouri. The second is cookie roberts, the daughter from louisiana, and the final one is frank mitchell, the first africanamerican page in the 20th century for the house. These are special because they provide personal memories of the Voting Rights act, while allowing us
One minute after the attack began pick the officer engaged the suspect and fired shots. He used deadly force to stop the attack reporter one student was nearby when the car hit the curb. I saw and saw everyone running. I was looking, was anyone hurt . When the gunshots ran out i ran for cover. Reporter 11 people were injured and one is in legal permanent resident. It was his first semester at the university. They do not know what motivated the attack and authorities are looking to see if it was an act of terrorism. The student newspaper, with his first day of classes, he told the newspaper that he was scared to pray because he said it was the unfair treatment of one of the students on campus during the attack, mark reese, a senior studying aviation, he was in the Student Union when the school sent out a text telling people to take a. To take a. They turn off the light and mutely came over the pa system and the whole campus telling everyone to a set go to the basement of any building if
Posted by the American Folklife Center at the library of congress. It is about an hour. I want to express our collective gratitude to the men and women who engaged in the struggle as members of sncc or naacp half a century ago and continue to keep the fires burning in the present day. We had the privilege of interviewing several of those remarkable individuals who joined the initiative known as the civil rights history project. We are indebted to them in ways that have not been fully acknowledged or articulated. I know some panelists are here. We have one or two other members also part of the freedom struggle. Mulhollandand joe joan mulholland. The recordings are now available online. At halftime [laughter] at lunchtime, the sports metaphors, oozing out of every pore. At lunchtime, as we say in the library, you can check out some of the interviews. They are all live and available to you. If you have not done so, please avail yourself of that. It is great to have one of our lead intervi
There are 200 cash prizes for students and teachers totaling 100,000. For a list of rules, go to studentcam. Org. Next on American History tv, maria varela, a former member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, shares her experiences from the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. This was the keynote address hosted by the American Folklife Center at the library of congress. It is about an hour. I want to express our collective gratitude to the men and women who engaged in the struggle as members of sncc or naacp half a century ago and continue to keep the fires burning in the present day. We had the privilege of interviewing several of those remarkable individuals who joined the initiative known as the civil rights history project. We are indebted to them in ways that have not been fully acknowledged or articulated. I know some panelists are here. We have one or two other members also part of the freedom struggle. Joan mulholland. The recordings are now available online. At h
The initiative. We are indebted to them in ways that none have not been fully a. Allant or are reticulated we have i think one or two other members also part of the struggle. Joan. This has been the critical and the principal incidents behind the recordings made on the web say on the webpage, and youtube channels. Lunch time at halftime a Sports Metaphor comes in losing. At lunchtime, as we say in the out on, you can check the back monitor some of those interviews. They are all live and available to you. If you have not already done so, please avail yourself of that. It is great to have one of our lead interviewers to be the moderator for the final session. He will end the proceedings as he began them in february with glenn piercey. It is the organizing principle of having these people articulate what they went through in this symposium, so without further ado, let me introduce you to betsy peterson, director of the american folklife center. [applause] as he mentioned, the name of the