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
The initiative. We are indebted to them in ways that none have not been fully a. Allant or are reticulated we have i think one or two other members also part of the struggle. Joan. This has been the critical and the principal incidents behind the recordings made on the web say on the webpage, and youtube channels. Lunch time at halftime a Sports Metaphor comes in losing. At lunchtime, as we say in the out on, you can check the back monitor some of those interviews. They are all live and available to you. If you have not already done so, please avail yourself of that. It is great to have one of our lead interviewers to be the moderator for the final session. He will end the proceedings as he began them in february with glenn piercey. It is the organizing principle of having these people articulate what they went through in this symposium, so without further ado, let me introduce you to betsy peterson, director of the american folklife center. [applause] as he mentioned, the name of the
Iran, coverage of bookfairs and festivals from across the country and the best sellers from this year and let us know what you think about the programs youre watching. Call us at 2026263400, or you can email us at comments at join the cspan conversation, like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. Charles cobb, former field secretary for the student nonviolent coordinating committee, or sncc, reef count tuesday the possession of and use of firearms by civil rights activists for selfprotection during the 1950s and 60s. This is an hour and 15 minutes. Thank you. Its always good to be in the mississippi delta, especially this changed mississippi delta. Perhaps i should say somewhat changed mississippi delta. This is an appropriate place to speak about this book, because i have vivid memories of hiding from police along this particular street, the county courthouse is over there, and i have even more vivid memories of posses and city police here, and i have memories in this is really what m
It has been a long time i wont spend a long time doing that. I want to make some comments about the actual content of the why in outline for you think guns made the Civil Rights Movement possible. And then i will sit down with rex and pursue that conversation and finally take questions from you ill in the audience from you in the audience. That is a lot to do in an hour or so. , in some ways, my thermination to address question of how the Southern Freedom Movement is portrayed. I have long been dissatisfied with what might be called the canon with regards to the Southern Freedom Movement. , when i began this book, sort of neatly and with a great deal of irony, put the me. N in perspective for martinboils down to standing up and the white folks seeing the light and saving the day. That, more or less, is my complaint about much of the narrative. There is a newer body of scholarship emerging, younger historian emily crosby, leslie hogan, they were here yesterday to represent that newer ap
Professor. They spoke at the 2014 organization of american historians annual meeting in atlanta. This is about 90 minutes. S an hour and a half. Thank you all for being here. My name is jim campbell. I teach history at Stanford University. It is my privilege and my great pleasure to introduce todays panelists after which im going to shut up. A couple of ground rules. The reason that there are these blinding lights, this event is being recorded by c span, so one consequence of that is they have asked that we use the microphone for questions from the floor. Im afraid theres only one, so my hope would be that i hope we dont get one of these endless cues, but if you do have a question and are able, please come forward and speak into the microphone with your questions. If you are not able, well try to get the microphone to you. The speaker will speak, i hope, i expect quite briefly, and we will then throw this open into a conversation. It is as all of you know if youve been watching your c