President stayed mostly silent inside a heavily fortified white house the protesters filled the streets outside demanding change someone has to do something about that it cant be that were just dying out here and no ones doing anything about that all we get our promises and promises and nothing ever changes but i want my children to see that america we can go out and we can do things like this we can we can show that we support are the true equality our true Constitutional Values so i think its a porch my kids to see it after decades of protest one time activists say this time seems different my brother is in this so many people across grows cold in rages and Sexual Orientation there are people out there you know black people too long they may have to bear the burden alone but police are protesting as well in buffalo new york the 2 officers who did this shoving a peaceful 75 year old man to the pavement seriously injuring him have been arrested on felony assault. Charges though officer
Of earlier discussions about the meaning of fremont when we thought about free communities, free black folks in the north and the south and how we came up with this way of representing freedom as freedom with a line through it. Not quite freedom to freedom. Right, this question of freedom and what did it mean. And so, for today were going to be talking about what did freedom mean and in particular, well be thinking about what did freedom mean to the free people, right. And in 19 january of 1865, secretary of war, Edwin Stanton and Union General William Sherman had a meeting with 20 preachers in savannah, georgia, and they wanted to find out from these preachers basically what is it that free people wanted from freedom . What did they expect and particularly wanted to know what did they expect in the aftermath of the emancipation proclamation. The group of 20 people, who was representative of free black folks in the community, selected one person, garrison frazier, a 67yearold man, to b
Would like to know how thats going to top of my lungs because i know so many black like i speak for every black man but for every one that i know know someone that has a friend a Family Member or a relative someone that from Police Brutality and you need to stop at fountain of praise church mourners pay their respects to the open casket inside some who knew him others inspired by the National Movement his death represents everyone should be so you can see what we need to do is so we dont have to do this again this should be the last and every day as they cantered. As they collect their home this will be the last to be in a room they came 15 at a time for up to 10 minutes with masks and social distancing to protect from coronavirus for which floyd tested positive in april and in his autopsy George Floyds body has traced the path of his life the 1st in a series of memorials began in many. Apple is where he died beneath a Police Officers need and never was held in the state of North Carol
Or out of favor, a consensus formed in the United States around centrist political views to the point where the Political Parties were barely distinguishable. A belief in a mixed economy ruled, meaning a broad acceptance of some government involvement in the market. All right. So the last couple classes we have been talking about the red scare, kind of the impact of the red scare and policing the edges of american politics. Today well be looking at kind of the rest of the political landscape, beginning to look at what people now refer to as the liberal consensus of the 19 forts and 1950s and try to work through what actually is happening in terms of the kind of main thoroughfare of american politics, the possibility for Political Action and the way people are thinking about politics in america in the 40s and 50s. You also had three readings, all of which in different ways deal with the kind of idea of political ideology and all of which share a set of assumptions about the way that ide
My am director of outreach at the american antiquarian society. I want to welcome you to this talk. You can find out up a brochure at the desk. You can also join our mailing list by filling out the information on your sheet. You can also pick one up at the front desk. As many of you know, we are a National Research library Whose Mission is to collect, preserve and share the printed record of the United States, portions of canada and the British West Indies before the 20th century. Collect anything and everything printed within these parameters from graphic princeton newspapers and periodicals. We use these collections as the basis for all of our programs which bring scholars, artists, writers and teachers and students at all levels together to participate in the workshop, seminars, performances and a variety of other programs. Tonights lecture is part of a series of programs we are offering connected to an exhibition called beyond midnight paul revere. It is currently on display in mes