From the sugar cane plantations in the Dominican Republic, a story of insecurity. And how changes are building more secure lives. Hello and welcome to 21st century. Im daljit dhaliwal. The legacy of slavery in the United States lives on today in South Carolina and georgia. The gullah geechee people, descendents of african slaves, are facing a struggle to hold onto their land and culture. Harmonica playing John Herman Blake up and down this coast there were literally thousands of african descendents. Im John Herman Blake. Im a seventh generation descendent of a woman who was enslaved on an island in the Savannah River on a rice plantation. Most of them came from west africa, sierra leone, and gambia. Music it really began about the 18th century as the atlantic slave trade began to prosper. As people began on acquire property here, who saw the potential for growing rice and cotton, and they began to import africans who were enslaved on plantations. You could buy a plantation, buy 10 to 2
We are pleased to introduce tajania henderson, a writer in the wartime study. She is an associate professor. She teaches courses on procedure, property and punishment, and american law and history. Publications include work on the viability of the 13th amendment for civil rights legislation, and the slaveholding american south, and remedying discrimination against persons accused of crimes. A graduate of Dartmouth College and new york university, her Current Research centers on the use of disqualifications from Public Office holding as punishment for former confederates and their support during the american civil war. Please welcome tajania henderson. [applause] thank you very much. Thank you to Jay Barksdale and the New York Public Library for providing a space for a writer and researcher to use the Library Selections and also to have a quiet, serious place of contemplation. Tthank you for attending. I know the weather is not the best. I appreciate you being here. I have been for two
Today, in our discussion of minority groups, we have with us two guests. One is minister malcolm x shabaz, one of the top leaders of the nation of islam or the socalled black muslims, and we also have mr. Herman blake, one of teaching assistants in the course. We will discuss today some of the goals and some of the strategies of the nation of islam, and i wonder if mr. Blake might start off by asking mr. Shbaz a question. Minister malcolm, i the think i thought might be good to starting it off talk about one of most pervasive beliefs in the general society about the nation of islam and that is that it is an organization dedicated to the use of violent means to attain its goals. The question i have is how true is this, and why do you think it persists in society . Well, the muslims who have accepted the religion of islam and followed the religious guidance of the honorable Elijah Mohammed have never bombed any churches, have never murdered any little girls, as done was done in birmingha
Course. We will discuss today some of the goals and some of the strategies of the nation of islam, and i wonder if mr. Blake might start off by asking mr. Shbaz a question. Minister malcolm, i the think i thought might be good to starting it off talk about one of most pervasive beliefs in the general society about the nation of islam and that is that it is an organization dedicated to the use of violent means to attain its goals. The question i have is how true is this, and why do you think it persists in society . Well, the muslims who have accepted the religion of islam and followed the religious guidance of the honorable Elijah Mohammed have never bombed any churches, have never murdered any little girls as one was done in birmingham, have never lynched anybody, have never at any time been guilty of initiating any aggressive acts of violence during the entire 33 years or more that the honorable Elijah Mohammed has been teaching us. The charge of violence against us actually stems fr
Today in our discussion of minority groups, we have with us to guests. One is minister malcolm x, one of the top leaders of the nation of islam or block muslins, and we have mr. Herman blake, one of the teaching assistants in the course. We will discuss today some of the goals and some of the strategies of the nations islam nation of islam. I wonder if mr. Blake might start off by asking mr. Shbaz a question. Minister malcolm, i the think i thought might be good to starting it off talk about one of most pervasive beliefs in the general society about the nation of islam and that is that it is an organization dedicated to the use of violent means to attain its goals. The question i have is how true is this, and why do you think it persists in society . Well, the muslims who have accepted the religion of islam and followed the religious guidance of the honorable Elijah Mohammed have never bombed any churches, have never murdered any little girls, as done was done in birmingham, have never