2009. Conducted by Smithsonian National museum of africanAmerican History and culture. The American Folk Life Center at the library of congress and the Southern Oral History Program at the university of North Carolina chapel hill. My parents were walter b. Ghaiaither and fannie b. Little gaither. Gray fall was my fathers home. My mother, fannie mae, was originally from anderson, South Carolina. And my mom and dad met while they were students at Friendship Junior College in rock hill, South Carolina. After they both graduated from friendship, they of course moved permanent ly to great falls. And initially, they were both school teachers. You could be a schoolteacher at that time with just a Junior College education. My dad did not stay in teaching. Because he discovered that what was listen on his contract as his per month payment for teaching was not the same as he was receiving. And this was at a time when the board of education were all composed of white men. So at the end of the yea
University of North Carolina. Parents were my parents walther b gaither and fanny little gaither. Uh, great falls was my fathers home. My mother, fannie mae, was originally from anderson, South Carolina and my mom and dad met while they were students at friendship. College in rock hill, South Carolina. After they both graduated from friendship they moved permanently to great falls. Initially they were both schoolteachers. You could be a schoolteacher at that time with just a Junior College education. My dad did not stay in teaching because he discovered that what was listed on his contract as is per month payment for teaching was not the same as he this was thatand a time when the boards of education were all composed of white men. And so at the end of the year, my father approached the person who signed his voucher for, uh, payment and said, i noticed that there is a discrepancy here. Differenceve dollars between what he was supposed to be paid and what he was receiving. For questioni
Reached people of color and Cyber Attacks on vaccine makers in the birthrates. Counting the costs on aljazeera hi im Steve Clements and i have a question what would angela davis do lets get to the bottom line. My guest today is someone who is talking about fighting racism in defunding the police when it was considered way too radical she became a folk hero in the 1970 s. For standing up to the establishment in almost every way you can imagine she got fired from a teaching job at the university of california for being quote unquote too outspoken when she was one thrown in jail a movement of blacks and whites took to the street in protest until she was free musicians like the Rolling Stones and john lennon and yoko ono wrote songs about her and all that was before she was 30 years old this year Time Magazine chosen as one of the women of the century. And even nowadays a t. Shirt with her image on it made by prada goes for 300. 00 she is the one and only angela davis scholar activist and
Reached people of color and Cyber Attacks on vaccine makers in the birthrates. Counting the costs on aljazeera hi im Steve Clemons and i have a question what would angela davis do lets get to the bottom line. My guest today is someone who is talking about fighting racism in defunding the police when it was considered way too radical she became a folk hero in the 1970 s. For standing up to the establishment in almost every way you can imagine she got fired from her teaching job at the university of california for being quote unquote too outspoken when she was one thrown in jail a movement of blacks and whites took to the street in protest until she was free musicians like the Rolling Stones and john lennon and yoko ono wrote songs about her and all that was before she was 30 years old this year Time Magazine chose her is one of the women of the century. And even nowadays a t. Shirt with her image on it made by prada goes for 300. 00 she is the one and only angela davis scholar activist
Her and all that was before she was 30 years old this year Time Magazine chose her is one of the women of the century and even nowadays a t. Shirt with her image on it made by prada goes for 300. 00 she is the one and only angela davis scholar activist and author of several books most recently freedom is a constant struggle ferguson palestine and the foundations of a movement and she joins us today from her home in Oakland California dr davis thank you so much for joining us here i want to start you with me right now we have almost back to the future we have protests in the street we have we had we had killing a black men and women in the country that have yet again raised this question of Police Brutality and really the social contract that we have across race and class in this country youve been through all of this before what are your views of how this is shaping out now. Well 1st of all thank you very much for inviting me. And let me say that this is a very exciting moment its an e