Polling that specifically asked does selma change their mind about working to a new Voting Rights act and are you going to get involved . The people are already involved. Selma did modestly well at the box office. I think i have the figures here. At home, a made 52 million and that is gross. The budget was 20 million. Foreign was not good. Only 14 million. We really do not know, but now it is on dvd and it is available on netflix, apple tv, your phone , maybe we will have an answer to that question eventually. Maybe this version of selma will have an impact. Has the criticisms of the film from historians been mostly on your side of the camp or has there been a counterbalance from other historians who are backing up the directors approach . Mr. May the question is, are there any historians totally supportive of the film . Not that i am aware of. What i did see, the night that i saw the film in november 2014, there was a journalist of their who had actually covered bloody sunday and othe
It has been a long time i wont spend a long time doing that. I want to make some comments about the actual content of the why in outline for you think guns made the Civil Rights Movement possible. And then i will sit down with rex and pursue that conversation and finally take questions from you ill in the audience from you in the audience. That is a lot to do in an hour or so. , in some ways, my thermination to address question of how the Southern Freedom Movement is portrayed. I have long been dissatisfied with what might be called the canon with regards to the Southern Freedom Movement. , when i began this book, sort of neatly and with a great deal of irony, put the me. N in perspective for martinboils down to standing up and the white folks seeing the light and saving the day. That, more or less, is my complaint about much of the narrative. There is a newer body of scholarship emerging, younger historian emily crosby, leslie hogan, they were here yesterday to represent that newer ap
Professor. They spoke at the 2014 organization of american historians annual meeting in atlanta. This is about 90 minutes. S an hour and a half. Thank you all for being here. My name is jim campbell. I teach history at Stanford University. It is my privilege and my great pleasure to introduce todays panelists after which im going to shut up. A couple of ground rules. The reason that there are these blinding lights, this event is being recorded by c span, so one consequence of that is they have asked that we use the microphone for questions from the floor. Im afraid theres only one, so my hope would be that i hope we dont get one of these endless cues, but if you do have a question and are able, please come forward and speak into the microphone with your questions. If you are not able, well try to get the microphone to you. The speaker will speak, i hope, i expect quite briefly, and we will then throw this open into a conversation. It is as all of you know if youve been watching your c
His great grandfather in fact was a founder of new africa, an all black colony established in the mississippi delta in the 1880s. If you know where to look urk still see a road sign. After his freshman year at howard, he got on a bus to go to a civil rights training meeting in houston, texas. Stopped off in jackson, and basically never left. As dory ladner says, he got gamed. Charlie would work as a snik organizers chiefly in Sunflower County in the delta. He would in 1964 be one of the primary architects of the mississippi summer project, though he was also someone who opposed the project. It was, im sure many of you have seen this document, this was charlie who wrote the prospectus for the freedom schools, schools intended in his words to fill an intellectual and create a vacuum in the lives of young negro mississippianss and so get them to articulate their own demands and questions. Hes remained an activist in the decade first and he has also worked as a journalist for National Publ
One of their widows was part of a Panel Discussion on the freedom summer. This is an hour and a half. Thank you all for being here. My name is jim campbell. I teach history at Stanford University. It is my privilege and my great pleasure to introduce todays panelists after which im going to shut up. A couple of ground rules. The reason that there are these blinding lights, this event is being recorded by c span, so one consequence of that is they have asked that we use the microphone for questions from the floor. Im afraid theres only one, so my hope would be that i hope we dont get one of these endless cues, but if you do have a question and are able, please come forward and speak into the microphone with your questions. If you are not able, well try to get the microphone to you. The speaker will speak, i hope, i expect quite briefly, and we will then throw this open into a conversation. It is as all of you know if youve been watching your c span today, this is a signal day in america