Professor taylor focuses on the 1954 u. S. Supreme Court Decision in brown v. Board of education, the integration of a high school in little rock, arkansas, and the 1960 sit in at a lunch counter in greensboro, North Carolina. Folks, welcome to this class in africanAmerican History. Were going Movement Origin our discussion of the Civil Rights Movement tonight. For those of you in this room who know who i am, but for others im Quintard Taylor and im a professor of history, American History at the university of washington. Ok, well get started. Last time last week we talked about world war ii and one of the things that i tried to emphasize was the fact that ordinary people were becoming much more militants or militant or aggressive in defending their civil rights. Im going to continue that theme tonight and, indeed, i think its even more so the case in the 1950s and 1960s that ordinary people became the engines of the Civil Rights Movement. We tend to think about the Civil Rights Moveme
Clerk thank you, very much. All right. We have quorum. Thank you. Greetings and welcome for joining todays board of education meeting. Knowing that we all know this, i would like to say these are stressful and strange times, times we never thought would be visited upon us. I thought it was strange enough trying to wait out and resist the person currently occupying the white house. But now things have gotten more bizarre with the same person trying to bully students, families and teachers and other staff back into school buildings. Thats what were dealing with. Thats what its come to. Today we will be absorbing our fall learning plan. I know many will find aspects they will object to but this will find solace in the approach. This is the time for us to pull together collectively to row lie upon one another to make this year as good and meaningful as it can be for our childrens sake. And to continue to find, within ourselves, a sense of grace and compassion and flexibility as we move for
Watch booktv on cspan2 this weekend. Education weeks go by this reporter Daarel Burnette joins us now for conversation of the opening this fall. President trump has made it clear he wants schools open in the fall and pesco so far as to say last week he will cut off federal funding for schools that dont reopen. Can you do that . By understand how that is no company would be very difficult for them to do that. The biggest thing is that most of their funding has been sent out for the school year. The second thing is congress controls the Purse Strings and so they have created rules around exactly when money gets in a come how much money gets sent out and exactly what School Districts need to do to receive money. The last thing is that if congress decides to provide more bailout money for School Districts, they would have to write, they would have to agree to give the strings to betsy devos to decide when to dole out when and how to give any extra money out. My extent is no. One of the thi
Strings. They have created rules around exactly when money gets sent out, how much, and exactly what School Districts need to do to receive that money. The last thing is that if congress decides to provide more bailout money for School Districts, they would have to agree to give the strings to betsy devos to decide when and how to dole out money. One of the things i want to point out is federal money is targeted toward low income schools. What betsy divorce is saying is devos. Y divorce host we talk about what is being proposed in the heroes act that are being pushed right now for future additional aid. Act, theder the cares School District can get 13 billion which is really a drop in the bucket. Was targeted they wanted it to spend it on last years costs when they had to shutdowns close in march, purchasing laptops for kids, wifi, etc. The heroes act which has been proposed in the house, that would provide 60 billion for schools. Again, most education advocates are saying they would n
Thoughts, i know you have a few. Guest im kind of obsessed with looking at this list. I take the bullet for the team. Im always interested and talked a couple of weeks ago about these books that were decades old popping up on to kill a mockingbird was a prime example. And we know why the handmaids tale was there this week on the Washington Post bestseller paperback up pops blue highways. This was a book that was written in 1978. He was an english professor and lost his job and was separated from his wife and got in a forward e. , line 1975 van and rode what he called the blue highways. This was before gps and before google maps here he got the map of the country and all the backroads were colored blue. Those were the road he chose to take and so, he went to 38 of the 50 states and just kind of learning america, learning a lot about himself it was a Remarkable Book on the bestseller list in for 40 or 45 weeks were some like that. That. He has written other books in that he he is best kn