Relations. We had horrible relationships with the black community in particular. A lot of people had been beaten up. I was one of the people severely beaten by the police and made the decision i was going to become a police officer. This was commonplace in detroit. It was probably around that time the naacp attentive to integrate , and Thee Department Police Department went on strike. We had all these things occurring. In the 1950s and 1950s, people had been shot and killed by the police. All of these things festered. We had a great deal of people that moved up from the south who wanted to get jobs in detroit because of the big three. They found things were probably as bad here as they were in the south. They were getting frustrated in terms of the things going on. Watch the entire program on the 1957 detroit riots at 8 00 a. M. And 8 00 p. M. Eastern on monday. Up next, nina howard speaks to a gathering hosted by the association of africanamerican museums about designing museums and p
Special saturday session, the jury was quote hopelessly dead locked before the judge declared a mistrial in the sex assault case. It only took an hour during todays deliberation before the jury said they were deadlocked and thats when a judge declared a mistrial. And saying a retrial will happen. We have Live Team Coverage. The reaction from todays decision live in norse town with whats next. And what a couple of weeks its been. The intense spotlight on the suburban court house and the deliberations that went on and on until today. They could not agree on these charges. This was the beginning of a long bus ride from Montgomery County to pittsburgh tonight. They spent the past six days, unable to agree on the Sexual Assault charges against bill cosby. Once the judge declared the mistrial, he and his representatives celebrated outside of court. A spokesperson read a statement from wife camille blasting the pros prosecutor. How do i describe the District Attorney . How do i describe the j
Founding director of the National Museum of africanAmerican History and culture. Good afternoon. Welcome to the how and why, the making of the international Africanamerican Museum. Im carey taylor, associate professor or this history at the citadel, and joseph is reillys coteacher for this semesters exciting course. We will introduce our special guest this weekend, but first i wanted to briefly explain the format. Mayor reilly and secretary lonnie bunch will engage in a fireside chat9style conversation after which well open it up for questions. We can ask that you put your questions in the chat function, and and ill relay those to secretary bunch. So with that, ill turn it over to my colleagues, mayor joseph reilly. Thank you, professor taylor and secretary bunch. [inaudible] the secretary of [inaudible] the director of the national Africanamerican Museum of National History [inaudible] secretary bunch is the director of the chicago [audio difficulty] his connection [inaudible] [inaudi
Museum is being built in charleston, south carolina. Mayor, do you want to welcome once again edward ball to our classroom . Indeed, professor. Thank you very much. Im so horn honored that edward ball has been so generous with his time to the return to our class today. Slaves in the family as known as the reason for building the museum. Such a wonderful example of the power of a book, the power of a great book. Having read the book, the international Africanamerican Museum would not be with under construction. Its well under construction to be finished june or july of next year, and thats all because of edward balls powerful work and wonderful work. And im sure all of you have questions, comments about book, so ill, i hope youll take advantage of this to discuss with edward [inaudible] questions or comments. Hello, mayor riley. Thank you for inviting me to come visit with you all. Im happy to do a q and a if you like, and i thought it would also be appropriate just to start by reading
But iran along with these Television Companies support cspan 2, as a Public Service. Welcome to tonights lecture on the tragic life of emmett tell. It was 1955 him, has been described as given rosa parks the strength to sit down, and martin lurking junior the courage to stand up. This is one of our great lives presentation, with the University Celebration of black history month. Id like first to thank the Program Sponsor Abs Corporation for the generous support. Its this kind of support that so crucial and making the series possible as a Public Service to our community. Our speaker this evening is university of kansas professor dave tell, author of the 2019 book titled, remembering emmett till which will be available for sale and signing in the foyer at the conclusion of tonights program. Doctor tell, who has a doctorate from penn state, has won new was around for both research and teaching. His research focuses on issue of race, memory, and the digital humanities. Since 2014, he has f