Archival footage are included in the Award Winning film from 2003, which documents the nonviolent protest that quickly lead to similar citizens throughout the south and helped energize the Civil Rights Movements of the 1960s. We have the right to protest. This is a nonviolent movement. Resistance. From the busboy cart in montgomery, alabama 1960, virtually Nothing Happened in the arena of civil rights. It was dead. Absolutely dead. Even martha luke earth do even Martha Luther king said that. In 1960, things to change dramatically, in greensboro. It is the origin of all of those events that occurred subsequent to february 1st, 1960. I happened to be there. Mcneill happen to be there. When you hear a railroad, the train is coming from far away and its coming closer. You become increasingly aware of the tracks of the trains. That track is what divides white from black. That is what separates the white ghetto from the black ghetto. It is the track that heads somewhere, but you dont know ex
From the bus boycott in monger, alabama until february 1, 1960, virtually Nothing Happened in the arena of civil rights. It was dead, absolutely dead, even Martin Luther king said that. In 1960 things did change dramatically in greensboro. Greensboro is the origin of all the events that occur subsequent to february 1, 1960. I happened to be there. Mcneil happened to be there. When you hear a railroad, the train is coming from far away and it is coming closer and you become increasingly aware of the track the train is rolling on. That track is what divides white from black. Thats what separates the white ghetto from the black ghetto. Its the track that heads somewhere but you do not know exactly where. And it is not really for the good of society. And before sitins, walked right across the track in the wrong direction, went to the other side. I think greensboro liked to think of itself as polite and being polite and moderate and open to different points of view. Greensboro is a town tha
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Sit in protests along with archival footage. That begins right now. And we feel also that one of the great pillars of american democracy is that we have the right to protest for our rights. We will do it in an orderly fashion. This is a nonviolent protest. We are depending on moral and spiritual forces using the method of passive resistance. From the bus boycott in montgomery, alabama until february 1, 1960, virtually Nothing Happened in the arena of civil rights. I mean, it was dead, absolutely dead. Even Martin Luther king said that. In 1960, things did change dramatically in greensboro. It is the origin of all of those events that occur subsequent to february 1, 1960, and i happened to be there. Mcneil happened to be there, and so did richmond and blair. When you hear a railroad, the train is coming from far away and it is coming closer and you become increasingly aware of the track that the train is rolling on. And that track is what divides white from black. That is what separates
Booktv continues now on cspan2, television for serious readers. Good evening everyone. Tonight we are here with peter finn the National Security editor at the Washington Post and previously coauthor of the book the zhivago affair which was finalist for the National Book six circle award for nonfiction. Hes twice been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for his International Reporting and hes won the Robert F Kennedy Journalism Award and the German Marshall Fund Peter R White prize for his foreign reporting. In other words, his nonfiction credentials are very wellestablished. Tonight he is here to present his latest book of nonfiction i guess to the right the story of american heiress gertrude with deborahs dramatic captivity and escape from nazi germany. Please help me welcome peter finn. [applause] thank you everyone for coming out and thank you to a books for inviting me. Im delighted to be here. As she mentioned, my book is about gertrude lesandro and the First American woman in unifor