1965, 1967, 1968. Outbreaks of violence throughout the country. You read the introtucdurks tctie turner report. This was after the detroit riot was a particularly big one. Five days. 41 dead after the detroit riot. There were 163 riots during the summer of 1967. Johnson put together this panel to investigate and come up with an explanation so were moving now to interpreting urban uprisings. So what is the colonel commission. This commission by the way is chaired by the governor of illinois and has members from both parties on it and has a labor official and member of the naacp. Its a real blue ribbon panel. What did they have to say. I thought it was interesting. White tuinstitutions created it White Society condones it talking about the violence that occurred. They are talking about the ghetto. Yeah. But thats where the riots occurred. So they are saying that white institutions created it. They maintain it. They keep that status quo. I thought its interesting that they basically defin
Afternoon. Organizing across the boundaries, strategies and coalitions in the struggle for the civil rights and social justice. Before we get started i just wanted to explain a little bit about the genesis of this panel or this how it came about like a lot of great ideas, i came across this book doing a search in the catalog. And this is many months ago we were kind of thinking about what do we want to do. There are so many books that come out on if Civil Rights Movement every year. We thought lets focus on some that are kind of different and interesting that kind of change how we think about the movement, kind of up in our understanding of it. Hen we came across this one. It has a great cover art. We loved how she was looking at these groups in an area we dont often think about and how these two groups came together in their struggles. So dr. Rice is going to be our first speaker. She earned her ph. D. From berkeley. Shes now a professor in ohio. Shes taught there since 2007. This is
Collusion. Everyone knows it and you know who knows it most . The democrats. They walk around blinking at each other. It doesnt bother me because i think mueller is going to be fair. While the president is relying on a fair probe, many on the hill doubt thats possible. Well talk about one of the lawmakers calling for mueller to be fired. Florida yates. President trump is taking a softer approach to special Council Robert mueller and his investigation into possible conclusion with the russian government in the 2016 election. The president denied any collusion with the russian government with his campaign more than a dozen times. He said i hope he will be fair. I think hes going to be fair. There is no collusion, and even if there was, theres no crime. The president turned to Hilary Clinton and her deleted emails. Asked if they should investigate the former secretary of state the president answered, for purposes of hopefully being treated fairly, i have stayed uninvolved in this matter.