Take part in this Amazing Group of people we have here. Professor at this teach about things the black power mixtape. Have such an Amazing Group of powerhouse folks here, dont you think . [applause] i would also like to thank you as our audience. It means you recognize and support this ongoing work and the commitment of these cultural warriors we have in our midst, and we are continuing in the ,truggle for human rights equality, and freedom of speech. So the struggle continues. I would like to frame the conversation we will have around this issue. We have a lot of young people in the audience. What ise relate presented in the book and the film . That weth this in mind would like to emphasize the impact of this film and the book. ,ere we are at the new school an institute of higher education, and we are all educators in one way or the other. Generations34 this this film documented period. We are excited and overwhelmed it is possible to have this here today. Question to our panelists is
And good evening and welcome. Thank you so much for coming. It is an amazing house we have here this evening. I have to say, im thrilled and honored to take part in this Amazing Group of people we have here. I am a media studies and film professor here at the new school and i do teach about things like this black power mix tape thing. Alley. Ight up my so of course, i would love to moderate this. But we are really thrilled to have such an amazing set of powerhouse folks here this evening. Dont you think . [applause] so, in addition to thinking our panelists, i would also like to thank you as our audience, because what it means is that you recognize and support this ongoing work and commitment of these cultural warriors that we have here in our midst. And that we are continuing in the struggle for human rights, economic and educational equality and freedom of speech. The struggle continues. Tonight, i would like to frame the conversation that we have around this sort of issue of educati
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
Coming up next on American History tv, a Panel Discusses minority activism leading up to the 1968 election. It is part of dr. Martin luther king jr. s poor peoples , africanamerican into condo activist came to washington, d. C. They explained how people of different races came together but it is largely remembered as an africanamerican movement. This event is part of the American Folklife Center at the library of congress to Mark National hispanic heritage month. This is about 80 minutes per to thank you so much, everybody. We are going to move on to our first panel discussion. I should say that my name is thee winick, a writer at American Folklife Center. We are presenting this symposium thetled organizing across boundaries, strategies and coalitions in the struggle for civil rights and social justice. This first presentation is called when poor people marched on washington, the 1968 campaign in black and brown. I will introduce the speakers, and then they can come up and begin the di