Though i do cover that in the first chapter. I want to take it through the rest of the 1960s. While we desegregated in 1963, we did not integrate. That took a long time, going even beyond 1970. But it is in this period that the University Went in a new direction. Once segregation was out of the way, once all that energy that had gone to trying to maintain and actually illegal and certainly immoral way of doing things, after all that energy could be sent in another direction, the university of alabama began to turn itself away from a regional Football Party school and warning itself and turning itself toward becoming a Major National academic institution. That is what it has become, but it was a long journey in the 1960s that sent us that in that direction. There were a lot of changes going on at the beginning of the 1960s. But really, it stems from 1956. At the first effort of desegregation, which failed horribly, accompanied by riots. This girl was a student for three days, but desegr
Good morning and welcome for your world, im del walters. Im stephanie sy and no response from syria to try to end the fighting there and secretary of state john kerry and counterpart Sergei Fedorov reached a deal late last night. Not take in effect until next week and may not stop the bombing in the country but the temporary plan could have a longterm end to syria civil war and provide much needed humanitarian aid. We are chairing the ceasefire component, the ceasefire ultimately, not at this moment but the objective is to achieve a durable, longterm ceasefire at some point in time. Reporter important Rebel Coalition welcoming the deal this morning and they say if the fighting actually stops it will go back to the negotiating table in geneva. Al jazeeras Jamie Mcintyre is live for us at the pentagon this morning and what does this deal do and what does it not do . Well del if you woke up in syria this morning you might not notice much difference and, in fact, just hours after this agre
When they got off the bus they were the mercy of this crowd who then proceeded to attack them even further. The deal that had been worked out with local Law Enforcement and the segregationists was evident 15 minutes they would have 15 minutes before Law Enforcement intervened. After about a 15 minute point a local Law Enforcement officer pulled his weapon and fired a shot. That is what stopped the attack. In the meantime the trailways bus arrived an hour later. They dont know until they arrived that the Greyhound Bus was already attacked. The interesting thing about the trailways bus, unlike the Greyhound Bus, several segregationists had gotten on the bus in atlanta. They were riding from atlanta. They had not only harassed the atlanta, the bus from but they had also beaten several of the freedom riders while on the bus. The trailways bus was able to continue on into birmingham for yet another mob formed and was waiting for that bus to arrive. While this was going on there were a group
Visit to montgomery, alabama. American history tv, all weekend, every weekend, on cspan3. If you think about the timeline of the modernday civil rights movement, the beginning being brown versus the board of education and the apex being the assassination of dr. King, the freedom rise is right in the middle. At the Halfway Point between those events. The happened here on streets of montgomery became a turning point for the movement. Was a civilride Rights Campaign to trap challenge the segregation laws and interstate travel in the south. They were traveling to the deep south to test whether the facilities and modes of transportation were complying with the recent Supreme Court ruling where the Supreme Court outlawed segregation in interstate travel. The plan was that the group that left washington, d. C. Would travel through the deep south, and would arrive in new orleans 1961, which would be the seventh anniversary of the brown versus board of education decision. As the left washington
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