My family had a construction business, it still exists. School in delaware. I went to the university of delaware. My history was in delaware before i went to the service. I tried to enlist in the service. The minute we were attacked by japan. I was colorblind. Calledd what they the enlisted reserves core. They let College Students go into with the idea that you would serve basic training and then you would go back to school and the thinking was maybe this war wasnt going to go too far. You go back to school and start again. I tried to enlist, i was colorblind. Finally i got in the army. I was restricted in what i could do. For basictexas training. Me from texas to the university of connecticut to continue my education. Out i had everything they were teaching. We reported to them that i was wasting my time. They suggested they would send me to m. I. T. That is what happened. They sent me to m. I. T. I did my job at m. I. T. From m. I. T. I was sent to nyu. From nyu i went to los alamos.
Test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 some democrats were perfectly willing to have integration in the north as long as they could preserve segregation in the south, going back to the time of slavery, never a dispute whether it could be prohibited in the north, we had border state problems in missouri and kansas, but the north was free to integrate as long as is the south could preserve segregation. That doesnt explain the housing issue. The other reason i think is that well i guess its not really an answer to your question why they did it, why its so hard to think about this problem, and that is we desegregated formally every area of American Life but when we desegregate busses the next day africanamericans can sit anywhere on the bus, desegregated lunch counters and the next day africanamericans could sit down at the lunch counters. We desegregated schools and the next day, but we desegregate neighborhoods what happens . How do we put our heads around what were
Birmingham helped shatter that told a board blake member of the National Council of churches. Sometime or other, we will have to stand and be on the receiving end of a firing hose. Leaders of all three fates decided they must do something, not just Say Something so many white clergymen were stepping from behind their pulpits and joining the ranks. Until then, Church Action has been limited to a few fronts. Among them, new orleans. Schoole years ago, trade desegregation came to the deep south. It happened in new orleans, the battle developed within the White Community. Those who saw desegregation as that viewlity, personified by most members of the school board. On the other side, those who shouted never. For a time, this second force prevailed, largely because the city leadership shrank from the fight. As frequently happens in leadership vacuums, even in the streets of so sophisticated a city, violence overtakes reason. It happened right here in new orleans. Teenagersvember day, protes
That deep, deep research that goes to the bones of our country and unearths the things we are not interested in talking about. So im deeply thankful to richard and i am paying back the favor by being here in conversation with him. The second part of this is there is an notion i have been doing whatever i can to reverse this. We have conceived of ourselves as a country with a racial problem. Underneath of that is there notion is that there are pure races in this country, a white race from europe, a black race from africa, and asian race from asia a latino race that hails from, i dont quite know where. Increasingly in arab and muslim race. This is the path we are going down and what this language does is obscure the fact that race and racism in america is a done thing, that the name comes after the attempt to take something from somebody and what that allows us to do is feel like we are some sort of divine, god in with some sort of divine, god made problem when we are in fact dealing wit
Delawaret to school in i went to the university of , delaware. So my history basically was in delaware before i went into the service. Now i tried to enlist in the service the minute we were attacked by japan. But i was colorblind. And i could not get in. But they had what they called the enlisted reserves core. Reserve corps. Which they let College Students go into with the idea that you would serve a basic training and then you would go back to school, and the thinking was maybe this war wasnt going to go too far. So you would go back to school and you would start again wherever you left off. I went to try to enlist, but i was colorblind. Had to go back. Finally i got in the army. But i was restricted in what i could do. I went to texas for basic training. Texas. 16 weeks in they sent me from texas to the university of connecticut to continue my education. And unfortunately, when i got to the university in connecticut, i had had everything they were teaching. I had already been throu