Culture. This is an hour and 45 minutes. [ applause ] all right. This is going to make me cry so come on, sit down. Geez, i was just going to say thank you, hard core folks. You know, im really pleased to welcome you to this session, but before i do that let me just say how unbelievably honored we at the smithsonian are that so many of you are here and that all of you that participate in this conference, the papers have been brilliant. We have learned so much, and i just want to let you know how much it means to all of the smithsonian that youre here. So thank all of you so much. I appreciate that. So my job today is to welcome you to the session with that was voted the session with the most unwieldy name. History, preservation, public reckoning in museums, which is translated to mean this panel will grapple with issues and challenges that flow from working at the intersection of history and memory, or put in another way this panel will look at what happens when the past meets the pres
Culture. This is an hour and 45 minutes. [ applause ] all right. This is going to make me cry so come on, sit down. Geez, i was just going to say thank you, hard core folks. You know, im really pleased to welcome you to this session, but before i do that let me just say how unbelievably honored we at the smithsonian are that so many of you are here and that all of you that participate in this conference, the papers have been brilliant. We have learned so much, and i just want to let you know how much it means to all of the smithsonian that youre here. So thank all of you so much. I appreciate that. So my job today is to welcome you to the session with that was voted the session with the most unwieldy name. History, preservation, public reckoning in museums, which is translated to mean this panel will grapple with issues and challenges that flow from working at the intersection of history and memory, or put in another way this panel will look at what happens when the past meets the pres
Soninlaw of naacp Board Chairman channing tobias. As the chief of the African Union unit for the united nations, dean immediately sent white a draft of the report. It dismantled all of eugene blacks cliches about rising tides raising all boats. Deans analysis laid out that while south africa had the highest per capita annual income on the continent most of that went to the white minority population. Africans in the union in fact made 75 less per year. And minors despite the growing demand for labor earned only 4. 02 per week. The report reaffirmed whites position as he took to the media to make the case for cutting off all funds, especially that of the world bank to south africa. Eugene black, white noted, had exhibited a kind of naivete to construe milans nazi model of racial policies as benefiting all the population of south africa. This was dangerous and shallow thinking. The world banks loans did not help. Instead it had bolstered a racist dictatorship, undercut more moderate force
This research . It was because i feel at the time of Ronald Reagan, accomplished so much. I mentioned restoring pride in america, creating a booming economy. And bringing freedom to millions in Eastern Europe and the phoenix communism, which in my opinion is the most important historical event of the second half of the 20th century. We do not have thousands of Nuclear Missiles aimed at us, at least from russia anymore. Life in the late 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, was involved in fighting communism. But the cold war. Proxy wars here and there, korea, vietnam, many other examples. It wasnt present like that in the 1960s. That communist and at the berlin wall, communism and i will end with this, many people think that the first time ronald called for the berlin war to be torn down, when he yelled, mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. Thats not when it happened. It was 1967 during a televised kennedy, itrobert was a question that Ronald Reagan answered and on may 15, 1967 call to tear down the lan
Highest per capita annual income on the continent, most of that went to the white minority population. Africans in the union made 75 less year that per year 75 less per year. Miners only earn 4. 12 or week. The report reinforced whites position as he made the case to the media for cutting off all funds to south africa. This was dangerous and shallow thinking, he argued. The world bank loans did not help. It bolstered a racist a caterer undercut moderate forces, saved the political just as walter white predicted, the regimes minister of finance waived the world banks funds in front of critics as proof that not only the strong the government was strong and viable, but that it was respected and supported internationally. As the noose of the regime tightened, the amc launched the defiance campaign. They defied the laws, they defied the regime. They defied. Pretoria countered with brutality. The naacp decided to finance and organized the picketing of the South African delegation at the u. N