Archival footage are included in the Award Winning film from 2003, which documents the nonviolent protest that quickly lead to similar citizens throughout the south and helped energize the Civil Rights Movements of the 1960s. We have the right to protest. This is a nonviolent movement. Resistance. From the busboy cart in montgomery, alabama 1960, virtually Nothing Happened in the arena of civil rights. It was dead. Absolutely dead. Even martha luke earth do even Martha Luther king said that. In 1960, things to change dramatically, in greensboro. It is the origin of all of those events that occurred subsequent to february 1st, 1960. I happened to be there. Mcneill happen to be there. When you hear a railroad, the train is coming from far away and its coming closer. You become increasingly aware of the tracks of the trains. That track is what divides white from black. That is what separates the white ghetto from the black ghetto. It is the track that heads somewhere, but you dont know ex
Just trying to get some fix on where we were and what we were about to do. I was trying to be slow and heavy so my anxiety would not get too high on me. I felt my temperature increase. I could feel my collar sweating, coming off the side of my face. I did not have to always ask joe what he was thinking. We looked at each other and both of us looked at the calendar at the same time. We just started to walk towards the counter, without a single word. That is how it happened. And we took our seats. University of massachusetts hammers professor, Tracey Parker, joins us now on cspan and cspan 3 for a discussion about the lunch counter citizens of 1960. Tracey parker, who were the greensboro for and why did they decide to sit down at that woolworths lunch counter on that february day in 1960 . Thank you for having me. Those greensboro four were four young men who were just College Freshman at North Carolina and tea state university. The three of them had met and high school, and so they alre
States. This is just over an hour. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the National Constitution center and to todays version of americas town hall. I am jeffrey rosen, the president of this wonderful institution and as folks who have joined us before know we begin our programs by reciting together the National Constitution centers inspiring mention. Here we go. Recite after me. The National Constitution center is the only institution in america to increase awareness and increasing of the u. S. Constitution among the American People on a nonpartisan basis. Beautiful. That is a wonderful recessation. Before we begin, i want to provide a quick plug for our next town hall. Join us for the 2020 annual Supreme Court review presented with the antidefamation league. And it will feature president ial scholars. It will be a wonderful discussion of the most important cases of the term. And, friends, i must tell you with great pleasure that on august 26th, circumstances permitting, the National Cons
Ms. Cox my name is mary cox. Im so pleased to be here. This is my first hoover days. I just published my first book. Ill do a little plug. It was just released in the u. S. A few weeks ago. Todays lecture covers a lot of whats inside the book, but theres also a lot more that is in there. What i want to do is tell you a story about what it was like to be in germany as a civilian during the First World War and in the years following. As part of that story, i will be discussing Herbert Hoover, some of things he did to alleviate suffering in germany, which remember, had been a big enemy of the allies of the u. S. One of the things i enjoyed so much doing the research is seeing his compassion for people that were very unpopular, and his ability to encourage others to also feel that compassion and save millions of lives. Heres the book. Im going to start by telling you about the british blockade. Right when the war started, the British Government started an interdiction of goods. Blockade ha
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