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In 1918, i lived in sequoyah county. In 1918, my family was living in south philadelphia. In 1918, we were living in el paso, texas. I was born and raised in baltimore. Narrator in bustling cities and remote villages in the United States and around the world, orphan children cry for their parents in 1918. People of all cultures struggled with the same terrible threat, and with it, in a matter of as 50s, as many million would be dead. In the United States, the death toll reached 675,000, five times the number of u. S. Soldiers killed in world war i. What was that deadly threat . [bell tolls] [bell tolls] many people died. We had just come from a few years before from mexico, where we were living. On account of the mexican revolution. I was about, i was the oldest. My Four Brothers and sisters of the family, only my dad and m ....
Welcome to new perspectives and sources on the elaine massacre of 1919. The panel is devoted to advancing our understanding of the horrific series of events that began just over 100 years ago in which africanamericans were hunted down by a paranoid and enraged crowd of whites inside delta arkansas. I want to recognize first the work guy lancaster did in helping to organize this panel. Unfortunately he had to change his plans to join us and participate. All three of our scholars here on this panel are contributors to a book edited by guy lancaster and we are shamelessly plugging that right here. The the elaine massacre and arkansas a century of atrocity and resistance, 1819 to 1919. Full disclosure, im in there too. But this is not about me. I want to introduce all three of our panelists first, and they will each present for about 20, 25 minutes. And after that i will spend just a few minutes offering some thoughts designed to generate discussion. And then i will get out of the way and ....
Conference quick welcome to new perspectives and sources, this is a panel to devoted to understanding a horrific series events that started just over id years ago where African Americans were hunted down by an raged crowd of whites in arkansas, i want to recognize the work lancaster did in helping to organize this panel, in unfortunately he had to change his plans to join us, and participate all three of our scholars, here on this panel are contributors to a book edited, we are shamelessly plugging that right here, the elaine mascara in arkansas, a century of atrocity and resistance, 1819 to 1919, full disclosure i read it to, this is not about me, i want to introduced all three of our panelists first, though each present for about 20 to 25 minutes, and after that i will spend just a few minutes offering some thoughts, designed to generate discussion and then we will enjoy a question, answer i will get out of the, way we will g ....
Contract with the owners and were illegally occupying this house. The Property Owner offered to pay for two months of housing elsewhere and offer a mover. The mothers called it an insult. This is out of our hands. The sheriffs will evict them and its quite possible they will be coming this week, maybe even tomorrow. We encourage them to leave peacefully and voluntarily. We are here and we are not leaving. Weve been here since november 18 and that is a win for us. [ cheers and applause ] reporter the last piece of video showed that walker and her children are here and they had entered the unoccupied home in midnovember and since then, several other homeless moms and kids joined them. Wedgewood properties purchased the property in july for 500,000 and the moms want wedgewood to sell them the house. They said the housing crisis in oakland is outofcontrol and there are too many vacant homes and that housing is a vacant home owners rig ....
Mostly cloudy later and we cloud up and then we get some rain moving rapidly with quartermile visibility in santa rosa and morning sunshine and then we cloud up with rain tonight. 40s and 30s on the temps and 50s later. Clouds later. 6 01 and we have sal to tell us about the roads. More crowded and we expected that, especially in the east bay. We do see traffic that will be a little bit slow as you come in from the carquinez bridge to the macarthur maze. The toll plaza gets very crowded and nothing unusual about this with traffic moving okay. When you get on the bridge, it looks okay and to the south bay, it is slow and so is 101 into morgan hill and eventually into the south bay was slowing and coming up, more of the east bay commutes but lets go back to the desk. Right now, mothers who moved into a west oakland home a legally are staging a rally. We have Alyssa Harrington at the house. The women and children are facing evicti ....