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Afternoon. Organizing across the boundaries, strategies and coalitions in the struggle for the civil rights and social justice. Before we get started i just wanted to explain a little bit about the genesis of this panel or this how it came about like a lot of great ideas, i came across this book doing a search in the catalog. And this is many months ago we were kind of thinking about what do we want to do. There are so many books that come out on if Civil Rights Movement every year. We thought lets focus on some that are kind of different and interesting that kind of change how we think about ...

The symposium to Mark National heritage month. Its about half an hour. Good afternoon, and welcome back. This is our next panel in the afternoon session of this symposium organizing across the boundaries, strategies and coalitions and the struggle for the civil rights and social justice. Before we get started, i just wanted to explain a little bit about the genesis of this panel or whole symposium and how it came about. Like a lot of great ideas that come about the library, came across this book just doing a search in the catalog, and this is many months ago. We were kind of thinking about wha...

Father buy a tv. Because tvs was not a come thing in households at that time. So in order to keep one the struggle in our home state in alabama my mother made my dad buy a tv and every day watch Walter Cronkite report what was going on in the south. And my mother used to get so emotional. So mad. Because she seen bull conners. Racist police. Our people being hosed down and dogs being sicked on them just for trying to vote or attend a rally. My mother used to get so emotional. Back in those days, later on i had nine other brothers and sisters but at the time i was the only child. And she would ...

In a sense it could become even more damaging. At the same time they were incredibly inspirational and uplifting for those that were being held in the gulag. That when he was in the gulag his captors said look. Here is your reagan. Cowboy comedy and a fall. And as soon as they left he could not contain his glee. He was jumping up and down and tapping in morse code Ronald Reagan called this the evil empire the next guy says start stepping we were called the evil empire than the gulag is coming now with the words evil empire. So the president had finally spoken the truth. With a follow up what i...

Era. He is popularizing that term on june 15, 1966 in greenwood, mississippi. And he becomes this icon of the late 1960s. Carmichael is going to be the most influential since malcolm acts. Is friends with Martin Luther king jr. And he also is a black panther. By 1969 he leaves the United States in west africa. And he has this organizer who changes his name to kwame ture in honor of his political mentors in africa. Kwame ture has taken them and he becomes kwame ture. Host what part of the Civil Rights Movement was he involved in . Guest is involved in all of it. And that is what is so interesti...