Online as well. I think the family always felt my mother had left a special gift for the family and the world. I think im acknowledging that. That is really great. You can watch this and other american artifex programs any by visiting our website at cspan. Org history. Tonight at 6 30 p. M. Eastern, former cia chief of disguise jonna mendez recounts the story of two czech k. G. B. Spies. They infiltrated the cia and gathered topsecret information to the use of sex. One popular washington, d. C. , Swingers Club counted at least 10 cia staffers any u. S. Senator as members. That is tonight at 6 30 p. M. Eastern on American History tv. Monday night on the communicators, we spoke with two industry executives at the Consumer Electronics show in las vegas. The Senior Vice President at ericsson and the cisco Senior Vice President. They talk about their companies and the technology on which the internet, mobile phones, and the cloud operate. In ericsson, we talk about a Network Society. And th
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
American history tv. It is not as the gate city because of its ties to transportation. It is located in the piedmont region of central North Carolina. With the help of our Time Warner Cable partners, we will look at the history of greensboro. Visit that woolworths counter at the center of the civil rights count movement. Is that at the counter and ask to order coffee and pizza. The response was really mixed. Another waitress was saying something like, we dont serve colored people here. They came here to sit down and take that first step. Later, here about a deadly clash in 1979 between members of the kuklinski plan and ask ku klux klan and communist party workers. I think it is so shocking to watch the film of the event of november 3. You have a group of people standing on the sidewalks, cars driving by a close and reach the sides of the cards. You have men running back and forth. Its hard to tell when you watch the film who represents the klan or cwp. First, get an up close look at a
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
Next, a look at our recent visit to greensboro, North Carolina. You are watching American History tv all weekend, every weekend, on cspan3. The International Civil Rights Center and Museum Opening greensboro on february 1, 2010. The museum tells the story of a sit in that happened in the city, which launched a wave of antisegregation citizens across the south. This building once housed the woolworths store. What happened in 1960, february 1, four young men from North Carolina amt State University chose that day to make a stand really, to take a seat so that the rest of us would be able to do that. They took a stand against jim crow, against segregation, against whites only access to public accommodations, and to being seen as a firstclass it is in. They came here to this lunch counter to sit down to be treated like a firstclass citizen and to be served against their policies and practices. This year in the museum is the actual lunch counter area that has been preserved. There have been