Railroad town, earning it the nickname pub city. Today this southcentral Mississippi City is best known as the home of the university of southern minute southern mississippi and camp shelby, one of the countrys largest Training Bases. With the help of our comcast training partners, over the next hour here how they became a center for the Civil Rights Movement. Instance, weg, for had registration. Africanamericans could not register. Everything was still segregated. A lot of the businesses, restaurants, and hotels were still under these kind of old jim crow laws. Later, the story of a hattiesburg washerwoman who saved her lifes earnings and then gave it all away. She started out by boiling clothes and a big tub in the house. She would wash them, she would hang them up to dry, and when she ironed them she would put them out there as well. She started out by charging a dime, if you can believe that. From a dime i guess she went to a quarter and then maybe up to . 50 and a dollar. What was
And also, what jaclyn said, are graduatingo thereve their degree, yet is somebody out there sitting on their Interview Panel saying, you are too politically correct. It does not matter if you are politically incorrect or correct, you know what they are saying. Way, oring, is there a do you have one word, to say to the generation that is here, people going into the field, about why they should stay . Why should they do the work we do . [applause] we are going to limit it to a word or two. Yes, quickly, go to our website. The aha is trying to suggest that phd historians are useful in many places in our economy and society. There are many ways to be an historian. This is a deep cultural change that needs to take place, but this is what we are trying to do. Quickly, the answer to the other question, i wanted to say that somebody asked about students having ideological clarity, i do not want my students to have a logical clarity. Earlier, there was a comment about liking things that are a m
Would now wage war against property. Society president on William Tecumseh sherman, arguing his march to the sea campaign was hard war rather than total war and his targets were carefully selected to diminish southern resolve. On american artifacts, take a tour with Senate Majority leader mitch mcconnell. Have thecconnell i good fortune to actually be here on august 28, 1963 when Martin Luther king made the i have a dream speech. Now i confess i could not hear a word. I was at this end of the mall. And he was at the Lincoln Memorial looking down on thousands and thousands of people. But you knew you were in the presence of something really significant. Then on the presidency, fo aides to tos former johnson and next and talk about the vietnam war. Lbj anguished over that were every single day and that is not an exaggeration. The calls to and from the theation room to see if carrier pilots had returned. They explore the president s foreign policies during the conflict. Reel. M. Eastern o
It was activism in doing something, rather than just complaining about things. Did that Conspiracy Theory about eisenhower gain traction . Prof. Mulloy not really. Disavow thelater thing that it was a liberals, other republicans, conservatives, and the media jumped upon. You cant be serious about this, right . You are really claiming that eisenhower is a communist agent . It was the thing that discredited than the most while they were trying to gain traction. Did their efforts have any influence politically . Prof. Mulloy sure. Is in recentiety times forgotten, but they were a significant part of the 1960s political landscape. They generated questions in the house, questions in the senate, president ial statements. Say they played a much more significant role in the development of conservatism during the period then they usually get credit for. The tendency is to dismiss them as a lunatic fringe, but it helped them up bridge 1950s that of the to 1970s and 1980s. They trained to a gener
Indianapolis, and has headquarters in massachusetts. It was very prominent in the 1960s in particular. What was the purpose behind the society . Prof. Mulloy they were an anticommunist organization. They opposed and feared that communism would subvert the United States. Globally, they opposed collectivism of all times, so they were opposed to many manifestations of the welfare state. They opposed what they saw as excessive governmental interference in the economy. In foreign policy, they wanted the United States to take a more active role in trying to win the cold war, to defeat communism in cuba, vietnam, those cons of places. Who was john birch . Prof. Mulloy he was an american missionary and a soldier who was killed at the end of the Second World War in china. The president of the John Birch Society discovered his story and identified birch as the first victim of this world war. Does the party still exist . Prof. Mulloy it does. It is much smaller now than it was in the late 1950s a