Interview with Joan Trumpauer mulholland. She recalls taking part in the 1961 freedom rides, attending tougaloo college, and serving at the Mississippi State penitentiary with other activists. This interview is part of a project on the Civil Rights Movement initiated by congress in 2009, conducted by the Smithsonian National museum of africanAmerican History and culture, the american full like american folklife center. Joan i was born in washington, d. C. And raised in arlington, virginia, basically a mile down the road in apartments, which at that point was the only place in Northern Virginia that would rent to jews. This was the early 1940s, folks had come from new york, looking for government jobs. They wanted out of the boarding houses and they can move to buckingham and that was about it. What did your dad do . Joan they had those government jobs. My father came from southwest iowa, during the depression. My folks met at the midnight shift at the post Office Building in the elevat
Male had been found apparent Gunshot Wounds inside an apartment. Stop screaming i cant understand you. My husbands been shot. Most people dont know anybody thats been murders. But to know two and be stuck in the middle of that. It was like a Hunting Party stalking your family. I had a lot of fears for peoples safety. This guy marshall his whole family as part of this criminal enterprise. Right. Theres a moment where ali stares at you and goes like this like hes ringing your neck . Yes. He didnt like me. Hes an evil man. Worse than charles manson. Sometimes it looks as if houston, texas just goes on forever. Sprawling all the way to the horizon. This was also the setting of a sprawling crime. One that began on a Quiet Sunday Night with a young woman named gelareh. She went home and i told her when she got home to text me and let me show know she made it home okay. Just past 11 00 a. M. , she chatted on the phone with her friend. Were on the phone talking. Then as gelareh pulled into the
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaud Center Fisher i are dealing with votes going on but i called the hearing to order and good afternoon. I would like to thank Ranking Member fisher and her colleagues for joining us. Our witnesses who i will introduce shortly for secr of state issac cramer executive carolina support of Voter Registrations and elections Jimmy Nilsson present director of the Naacp Legal Defense Fund and well hear from her other witnesses because senator fisher will be introducing them including alabama secretary of state wes allen and brian kruse commissioner for the depth county election commission. More americans than ever have cast a ballot in recent elections in large part because of the work of state and local officials in these elections have run smoothly and top Security Officials in both republican and democratic administrations alike have elections including last weeks primaryec elections. 18 states have a ready h
Ballot initiative to enshrine abortion rights in the ohio constitution. We will go to ohio and then to detroit where a woman was falsely arrested and jailed while eight months pregnant due to faulty facial recognition software. Porcha woodruff is the first woman and at least the sixth person to report being falsely accused of a crime as a result of ai facial recognition. All six people have been black. Then to mississippi where six white former Police Officers who called themselves the goon squad have pleaded guilty to raiding a home and torturing two black men. Not only do they brazenly committees acts commit these acts they left him lying in a pool of blood. Gathered on the porch of the house to decide how to cover it up. Amy we will speak to the two men who survived this horrific police assault. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In a major victory for reproductive rights and democracy, ohio voters re
Ballot initiative to enshrine abortion rights in the ohio constitution. We will go to ohio and then to detroit where a woman was falsely arrested and jailed while eight months pregnant due to faulty facial recognition software. Porcha woodruff is the first woman and at least the sixth person to report being falsely accused of a crime as a result of ai facial recognition. All six people have been black. Then to mississippi where six white former Police Officers who called themselves the goon squad have pleaded guilty to raiding a home and torturing two black men. Not only do they brazenly committees acts commit these acts they left him lying in a pool of blood. Gathered on the porch of the house to decide how to cover it up. Amy we will speak to the two men who survived this horrific police assault. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In a major victory for reproductive rights and democracy, ohio voters re