You would be sent to mccarthys committee and blacklisted, deported somewhere. They decided to adhere to nonviolence when they were marching. The people we associate most with nonviolence like dr. King, he often had armed bodyguards surrounding his home. Its a fellowship of reconciliation, went to visit Martin Luther king in the early days of the montgomery bus boycott. He had decided on being gandhian. He wrote back and said, this place is an arsenal. You had so many guns around the house, and they convinced him not to do it great its a mess, i think. It. Its a mess, i think. Questions . Thank you all so much for coming. [applause] coming up next on American History tv, historian and author Douglas Charles discusses his book, hoovers more on days, war on gays. Thanbi accumulated more sex000 pages on socalled deviants. These files were destroyed in 1977 and 1978. Professor charles discusses his research into the history of the program and the public and official perception of gays durin
His files to using get his way, often times, with politicians. Mansecond is of a secretive wearing a feather blower, sashaying around washington,. C. With his lover one of those is verifiable. Based on historical evidence. He other is not nevertheless it has become an irrepressible cultural meme rooted in innuendo, and supposition. It captured the two major hoover era of sessions. Ommunists and gays until now the fbi preoccupation with gays and the means a targeted gays have not been documented and examined only in limited ways. Public discourses over the fbi and gays center around the idea of a gay hoover targeting his own through overcompensation. We cannot know what his sexuality was unless we are willing to use stereotyping as evidence of a persons character or nature. Having no convincing evidence sexuality isovers a causal factor in explaining why is fbi targeted gaze for 40 targeted gays for 40 years is not helpful to understanding what the fbi did. Let me take you on a whirlwin
Theyd be citizens than they would vote the way all of our freedoms. Moderator thank you, mr. Macko. Youve had an impact on people. You feel immigrations, sir. It is broken as they presently does. The first thing we need to do is secure our border. I would go about that, whether its inject tenet of the states that are on the borders and make sure we had the wherewithal to guard the borders. Moderator like ohio . Joyce we have the coast guard and the ability to do that. Down in arizona, texas in the southern border. That is something we need to have the states employ the National Guard to protect them, then so be it. We need to fund them appropriately. People say secure our border pretty frequently. I dont know what that means exactly. If it awol as david macko suggests, if it drowns . Like what does that look like . That is potentially quite a lot of borders. Joyce absolutely. We have to employ the National Guard. But they play again down there where somebody is and you cant do anything
Breaking news right out of the gate, look at this, a Freight Train derails in pennsylvania, its outside pittsburgh. Ten cars have derailed, thats according to local reports. This is an Valley Railroad train, no word on what it was carrying, but there are no reports of injuries or of a hazmat situation. Lets get right to it. Nice rally on wall street, the dow industrial is up 154 points stay at this level and youre close to a new record closing high. Now look at shift shack. Higher prices help post a surprised profit, good provide the too. Sales were strong, and remember it sold off last week because some thought it was low priced. Up 6 today. Now look at kohls. Dont do that. Down 11 . 8 at 6. The price of oil still in a very narrow range just below 60 a barrel, and the price of gasoline keeps going up, 2. 67 is your average now. Now, the big economy headline this morning comes from the economist at a very big bank. Where on the titanic he says and were going down, no policy fixes readi
Some of the uks largest councils says the financial pressure of the pandemic means they may have to declare themselves effectively bankrupt. A bbc investigation has found at least some local authorities may need to implement emergency spending controls and many have shortfalls of millions of pounds. Our social Affairs Correspondent Michael Buchanan reports from leeds. The lockdown has meant this support group have had to counsel everything. There should have been a full dance class here this afternoon. I like socialising with people so it is good because i like talking to people as well so it interests me. And when im not here iam upset interests me. And when im not here i am upset because i dont like being away from people. Up to 100 people attended the groups weekly but funding from the council is due to end next march, creating huge uncertainty for the organisation. Those people, they are suffering from depression, Mental Illness and are going to need a lot more support than we have