Evers and other key events in the movement. In an unprecedented threehour report, nbc news presents the American Revolution of 63. A study of the american negroes struggle for equality. Here is nbc news correspondent, frank mcghee. There comes a time, there even comes a moment in the affairs of men when they sense that their lives are being altered forever. That an old order is dying and a new one is being born. That moment comes sooner for some and for others, it comes later. For some, the moment arrives when a deed of new dimension sets the hour apart. For others, when familiar words are spoken. Later, but still suddenly it seems, men are saying things and doing things theyve never said or done before. Then we know we are experiencing a revolution, but we cannot say, though historians will try, when it began. We know that autumn does not begin with the turning of the leaves, but earlier, on some forgotten afternoon when a shadow passed over the fields and it was in longer summer. So
Politics. Today well be looking at kind of the rest of the political landscape. What people now refer to as the liberal consensus of the 1940s and 1950s and determine what actually happened in the main thoroughfare of american politics and the way people are thinking about politics. You also had free readings, all of which in every day dealing the kind of idea of political ideology and all share a set of assumptions that ideas matter. So sort of thinking today how they kind of frame those ideas, and this is the kind of transition class where we move from discussing the geopolitics of the cold war and red scare to discussing whats happening in america in the 1940s and 1950s. I assume there are very few questions about this one. Yeah . So is he essentially saying that, like, the political ideology in the imperial age are just kind of not worth it anymore, and focusing on Economic Issues and focusing on the government and just making that one country the best they could possibly be the be
At the target of the other plane. This is live ammunition, of course. Live ammunition, colorcoded bullets. They did this with a wide variety of different planes. They served as civilians until the 1970s when they started a Grassroots Campaign to be recognized as veterans. Its an incredible, incredible campaign. And they finally were given veterans benefits. This is at the in congress after they testified. This is 1977 when president carter finally recognized them as veterans in the United States. All of their papers are here, if you guys want to serve as interns in the womens collection. We have that. And you can work for their papers directly. But, again, we could have an entire semester on women in war and this is just a quick and dirty version of it. Think about women in these three ways of working here in the United States, domestically and abroad and ill help you organize your thoughts. Do you have any questions or any final ideas or thoughts about this . Thank you, guys, well con
The American Revolution of 63. Correspondentws frank mcgee. Frank there comes a time in the affairs of men when they sense their lives are being altered forever. An old order is dying and a new one being born. That comes sooner for some, and others later. For some, the moment arrives when a deed of new dimensions set the hour apart. For others, when familiar words are spoken more sharply. Later but still suddenly men are saying things and doing things they have never said or done before. Then we know we are experiencing a revolution. We cannot say, the historians will try, when it began. We know autumn does not begin with the turning of the leaves, but earlier on some forgotten afternoon when a shadow passed over the field. Revolution began in birmingham or did begin in 1955 in montgomery . In 1954 with the Supreme Court decision . In 1863 with a president ial proclamation . Some roots reach back to 1776 to an independence declaration, 52. Back to the year the American Revolution began
Altered forever. That an old order is dying in a new one is being born. That moment comes sooner for some, and for others it comes later. For some, the moment arrives when a deed of a new dimension sets are apart. For others, when familiar words are spoken more sharply. Later, but still suddenly it seems, men are saying things in doing things that have never said or done before. Then we know we are experiencing a revolution. But we cannot say, although historians will try when it began. We know that autumn does not begin with the turning up the leaves, but earlier on some forgotten after news when a shadow passes over the field and its no longer summer. So this American Revolution of 63 began this year in birmingham or on 1955 in montgomery . Or did it began in 1954 with the Supreme Court decision, or an 1863 with the president ial proclamation. Some of its worst reach back to 1776 to an independent revolution, even back to the 50 to win the apostle paul said god has made of one of us