We want to start the conversation by talking about rosa parks. What do we know about rosa parks, jane . I wanted to start today with an evening meeting. That evening is november 27, 1955. On that november 27 rosa parks came to a meeting at dexter Avenue Baptist Church to hear tm howard, dr. Tm howard talked about the recent acquittal of the two killers of emmett till. Dr. King introduce fascinating and howard was there to spread the word. Howard had been one of the key organizers in trying to get even a trial of those two men and after those men he had been acquitted was on a tour through the country to spread the word and to continue the organizing after that travesty had happened as the two men who had lynched emmett till have been found not guilty. So this is november 27, 1955. Rosa parks sits there and she is talking about the lynching of emmett till and he is talking about the deaths of two other organizers in mississippi who would try to register to vote and have been killed and
In talks. Brown from our american graduate series, we have the story of a chicago nonprofit that aims to change the lives of wouldbe dropouts. Whats interesting about one goal is that it pinpoints and targets lowincome, underperforming students in non selective Chicago Public schools, students who are least likely to graduate from high school, let alone college. Suarez we look at newly released documents showing leaders in the Catholic Church in los angeles shielded pedophile priests and failed to report allegations of child abuse. Brown and gwen ifill talks with biographer jeanne theo haris, who offers a complex portrait of the woman best known for refusing to give up her seat on an alabama bus in 1955. She is celebrated for one act and i think part of that celebration puts it all in the past, right, when the actual rosa parks keeps working on racial and social justice issues all the way up to the end of her life. Brown thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs n
So journalism and the articles and the pamphlets this people dont read 500 page book. They read articles. We need to have newspapers and blogs, thats really what makes these movements work. I want to go back to the thinking about what they offer us today and then kind of what the myths i often talk about them is a fables because i think theyre told to us to give us certain messages i would argue are sort of problematic. I think most School Children now learn that rosa parks was courageous. Right . But that courage is framed through this image of a tired, accidental act that spontaneously bursts a movement. Right . When, if we actually look at her courage, what her courage is about is something far more profound. And first, its the courage of perseverance. Right . She has been active for two decades at that point, politically active for two decades. She had made stand before, people she knows made stands before and they basically have gone nowhere. I think part of the lesson of somebody
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North and groundworks about the Civil Rights Movement. Dr. Weathered. See thank you. [applause] its good to have everybody out this afternoon. We have got a distinguished conversation here with my professor mary berry at the university of pennsylvania. [applause] Barbara Ransby is the author of a tiger free of ella baker of Eslanda Robeson and Jeanne Theoharis the author of the new biography on rosa parks. [applause] we want to start the conversation by talking about rosa parks. What do we know about rosa parks, jane . I wanted to start today with an evening meeting. That evening is november 27, 1955. On that november 27 rosa parks came to a meeting at dexter Avenue Baptist Church to hear tm howard, dr. Tm howard talked about the recent acquittal of the two killers of emmett till. Dr. King introduce fascinating and howard was there to spread the word. Howard had been one of the key organizers in trying to get even a trial of those two men and after those men he had been acquitted was o