[applause] thank you. Thank you all very much for being here this evening to support Martha Fuller Clark. Shes an outstanding leader, and this state produces only strong women. Whats in the water here . Its wonderful to be here on her behalf, and hopefully i will see some of you at dinner as well. Thank you for having all of us in your home a few months ago. Martha, it is true that if you appreciate architecture, but i like your house, the house isnt mine. [laughter] that house belongs to the people of maryland. But he was great seeing you when you came down there with all of the state chairs. I love your governor because of her effectiveness, her ability to get things done, her ability to hold people together. My goodness, a unanimous bipartisan budget. [applause] we been able to get some difficult things done with votes from both sides of the aisle, a we could get a unanimous vote on adjournment. [laughter] so i also want to thank my friend martin for coming up here for maryland and
Something on monument avenue that does not reflect that segregationist past. The result was this arthur ashe statue, which is pretty big. Not as big as jeff davis, but its pretty big. Its pretty large. So moving away from virginia, though, im sort of curious yeah, matt . In doing a paper, i actually came across an article that was in the southern southeastern geographer, and the article explored the symbolic meaning of lee to the city. This is about richmond. It is now mostly africanamerican. And the argument was that, i guess they had redone the canal area. Theres this big mural of robert e. Lee there. And its like the africanamerican population demanded that it be taken down. And so it does seem like there is a real expression of political power in that city now. Well, its an interesting place. It does come up. If you go, i also highly recommend the museum of the confederacy. Its a fascinating place in its own right. Its bookstore is fascinating. It is not you might imagine being up
He gave a speech which i wont quote at length. But wallaces speech was very, very clear. The country should, quote, look to the south, end quote, as the true defender, quote, of the rights of states and individuals. Wallace also said that the country was on the brink of civil warfare. That also is a quote. And told his colleagues in the senate that if they passed a public accommodations bill, mandating that public accommodations be open, regardless of color, this is wallace, quote, you should make preparations to withdraw all our troops from berlin, vietnam, and the rest of the world, because they need to police america. Of course, we talked about the back drop. The civil war centennial occurred with the back drop of the Civil Rights Movement. And of the very violent repression that was sort of that africanamerican activists in the south. The freedom summer of 1964 when the three were murdered in mississippi, that is sort of just in the offing. The civil war centennial. If we then ask
Professor marisa chappell. This is 1 hour 45 minutes. So, today were talking about the war on poverty, and the urban crisis in the late 1960s in the United States. And were looking at the ways in which the black Freedom Movement raised the issues of poverty, and of racial disadvantage. Really to a level of national attention, and National Action that we havent really seen at any time since. So i want to start just by well, first i should lead you through the outline quickly. Well talk about the ways in which americans at the time thought about black poverty. How did they interpret it. What causes did they think about. And then, what solutions, therefore, did they turn to. So well talk about designing a war on poverty. The choices that the federal government made when the Johnson Administration announced that it was going to wage a war on poverty. And then well talk a little bit about the socalled riots that occurred each summer in the late 1960s in africanamerican communities. In citie
White and black poverty in 1959 and 1968. Not a hard graph to interpret. What do you see . Cara . In 1968, poverty had declined a lot. But still black poverty is a lot higher than white poverty. And its still probably like that today. So there was change, but it wasnt theyre not equal. Yes. So we see progress for both groups over this time. But as you say, we continue to see a disparity. Any other comments on this graph . All right. I want to show you a little more detail here. And i want you to tell me what you see in this graph. Pedro . So, for you can tell with gender, theres a disparity where the poverty is, even among races. But with black females, theyre among the most highest. Well, actually yeah, among the most highest. They actually did decline slowly, but you can see even within race, theres also intersections within sex. So it sort of gives you a slight look at gender and how it intersects. The combined effects of race and gender on shaping Economic Opportunity and economic