Provided the video. Good morning, everyone and thank you for joining us for what promises to be a timely, eliminating roundtable discussion looking back on the 50th anniversary of the successful struggle to elect newarks first black mayor, kenneth gibson. Elected in june of 1917, is an 1970,stration marked his administration was part of a wave of political to 1974. Ion from 1967 his history is vital right now as black lives struggle against Police Violence against george floyd, breonna taylor, and the attempted murder of jacob blake have found a call for black liberation ball raising familiar questions about the roles of electoral politics and black freedom struggles. Electionago, gibsons came on the heels of the 1967 rebellion in newark, the Police Beating about unarmed man sparked an uprising against White Supremacy and its enforcers in blue and its enforcers in blue in the jim crow north. Racism,anizing around renewal projects, and countlessl injustice, beatings had gone unpunished
Interview with Joan Trumpauer mulholland. She recalls taking part in the 1961 freedom rides, attending tougaloo college, and serving at the Mississippi State penitentiary with other activists. This interview is part of a project on the Civil Rights Movement initiated by congress in 2009, conducted by the Smithsonian National museum of africanAmerican History and culture, the american full like american folklife center. Joan i was born in washington, d. C. And raised in arlington, virginia, basically a mile down the road in apartments, which at that point was the only place in Northern Virginia that would rent to jews. This was the early 1940s, folks had come from new york, looking for government jobs. They wanted out of the boarding houses and they can move to buckingham and that was about it. What did your dad do . Joan they had those government jobs. My father came from southwest iowa, during the depression. My folks met at the midnight shift at the post Office Building in the elevat
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Knows the Unionist Party to be a rival to the shouldnt be jew or pally. Would you be more amenable now in the present circumstances than perhaps they were a few years ago i think perhaps and i judge that on the evidence of the surge for the Alliance Party the middle ground Party Last Year in the european and the local government elections where they did incredibly well what i was trying to say back and back in 2017 was that youve had 10 years and i of the deep ancient fane running our Coalition Government of storm and castle. You dont need any more evidence that they cant get on that they cant cooperate that they cannot deliver for you so lets have an alternative and the alternative us to be not one party but one Unionist Party and one nationalist party so that was ourselves and the s. T. O. P. And when i looked at Colm Eastwood when he took over the s. E. L. P. I heard him saying what i was saying which was we need to make Northern Ireland work and when i started on and spoke to him i