Denver, colorado. We spoke with professors, authors and graduate students about their research. This interview is about 20 minutes. We are with professor Vernon Burton of Clemson University and peyton mccrary, George Washington University Law School Lecturer and former department of justices story. You are fresh off your panel on historians as Expert Witnesses. When our historians used as Expert Witnesses, professor burton . Vernon in our case, we have done mainly Voting Rights work. Goes back a number of years but historians were used quite a bit now in a lot of different kinds of litigation. Explaining circumstances. Looking at intent. Environmentalfrom concerns to medical issues. Tobacco. Company. Suits. Think, they me, i could almost be used anywhere to help put things into perspective for what is the Voting Rights, sort of law canon we think of, explaining the totality of circumstances of why a law is passed. Host you spent 26 years with the Justice Department. When did you become
Host beginning on book Tv Documentary filmmaker recalls impact of his Television Series on the Civil Rights Movement eyes on the prize is the name of the book and the Television Series. This program contains language that some may find offensive. Host [applause] im going to be up front. I am really intimidated. I thought i was intimidated by you. I want to give a little bit of background. The filmmaker was a legendary filmmaker and here she was a crew member on that and they would talk about john as the sort of wifi that passed the asian litmus test. So i never met him but the next time i ran into him, i was at monaco and john was there and she congratulated him at the macarthur fellowship. I was actually working on the film within and it was a because what he did is we gave him a camera to film his everyday life for a year of his senior year in high school, the style and everything were making the producers quite nervous and so, i liked the final cut but people were not sure how it wa
The sitin movement and how that galvanizes the movement. It gets it really moving again by the late 1950s. Once again, it was College Students who get that movement rolling in 1960 and 1951. In 1960 and 1961. To the point where there are tens of thousands of people involved. We see that rolls over into freedom rights of 1961. We see that continuing, culminating on the march on washington in 1963. And the gigantic birmingham demonstration where there is the fantastic letter from the birmingham jail. What we are going to do today is take a step back. What is happening between 1961 and 1964 for sncc in particular. After it was created after the sit in movement, we know they were involved with the freedom rights at the end. We know they are wedded to nonviolent direct action, but what makes them do it . They will plan and execute one of the most ambitious civil rights call it a demonstration would not do it justice. One of the most incredible civil rights events of the era. They call it th
Find offensive. [applause] thanks. Go ahead. You start. Figure out what to do. So much of this book is based on the interview, interviewing people. I am going to be up front. I am really intimidated by this guy. I thought i was intimidated by you. I want to give a little bit of background. I never really met john. I heard of jon else. He is this ghost. My first job was with chinese american filmmaker, legendary filmmaker and i came on the tail end of a series called bean sprouts. The crew a crewmember they would talk about jon else as the white guy that passed the asian litmus test and so i never met him but heard of him. I was working with wayne weighing in monaco and john was her, wayne congratulated him, winning the macarthur fellowship. I had no idea what it was at the time. Wayne said it is called a genius grant. And then i was actually in started working on a film that was actually because what we did is we gave don a camera to just film his everyday life for a full year of his s
Weekend on cspan3. To join the conversation like us on facebook. Cspan3s American History tv, an interview with dorothy height, who served as president of the National Council of negro women from 1957 to 1998. Recorded in 2003, this is from the explorations in black leadership oral history collection, a project codirected by university of virginia professors Phyllis Leffler and julian bond. We are currently airing five of the interviews with prominent africanamerican women. She discusses wednesdays in mississippi, a group ecoorganized in the 1960s, and her work alongside Martin Luther king jr. On the 1963 march on washington. She went on to receive both the president ial medal of freedom and the congressional gold medal. She died in 2010. This is about an hour and a half. Welcome to explorations of black leadership. Thank you for doing this. I want to begin with questions about brown versus board of education. When you first heard the Supreme Court had eliminated segregation in schools