2009. Conducted by Smithsonian National museum of africanAmerican History and culture. The American Folk Life Center at the library of congress and the Southern Oral History Program at the university of North Carolina chapel hill. My parents were walter b. Ghaiaither and fannie b. Little gaither. Gray fall was my fathers home. My mother, fannie mae, was originally from anderson, South Carolina. And my mom and dad met while they were students at Friendship Junior College in rock hill, South Carolina. After they both graduated from friendship, they of course moved permanent ly to great falls. And initially, they were both school teachers. You could be a schoolteacher at that time with just a Junior College education. My dad did not stay in teaching. Because he discovered that what was listen on his contract as his per month payment for teaching was not the same as he was receiving. And this was at a time when the board of education were all composed of white men. So at the end of the yea
University of North Carolina. Parents were my parents walther b gaither and fanny little gaither. Uh, great falls was my fathers home. My mother, fannie mae, was originally from anderson, South Carolina and my mom and dad met while they were students at friendship. College in rock hill, South Carolina. After they both graduated from friendship they moved permanently to great falls. Initially they were both schoolteachers. You could be a schoolteacher at that time with just a Junior College education. My dad did not stay in teaching because he discovered that what was listed on his contract as is per month payment for teaching was not the same as he this was thatand a time when the boards of education were all composed of white men. And so at the end of the year, my father approached the person who signed his voucher for, uh, payment and said, i noticed that there is a discrepancy here. Differenceve dollars between what he was supposed to be paid and what he was receiving. For questioni
wherever you are around the, world cnn ongoing coverage of israel s war with hamas, i m john vause in atlanta where it is now one a.m., and seven a.m. in gaza, which is now divided into by israeli ground forces battling hamas militants in the north. for weeks, israeli officials urged palestinians to evacuate relative safety in the, south ahead of a major ground incursion. and as dawn now, breaks the israeli troops have gaza city completely surrounded according to senior idf commanders. in the past few hours, cnn crews reported flares and explosions, lighting up the night sky over northern gaza around the not far from the israeli border. so far, 23 israeli soldiers have beeeen killed dururing this military o offensive, whwhich is fofocused on locatating and destroying hamas t tunnel netwo, as well as senior hamas leaders. our soldiers have been operating in gaza city for the past few, days surrounding it from several directions, deepening the operation. our forces are in
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About flights coming into the u. S. From the uk . What authorities said today about this. And we ask, are mutations of the virus expected . And should the vaccine still work . Well put this into context for you. Dr. Jha is here tonight. The second vaccine here in the u. S. And the rollout under way tonight. The first moderna doses now reaching americans. President elect joe biden rolling up his sleeve and what he said about the vaccines today, as Public Health officials urge americans not to travel for the holiday. News tonight involving President Trump and his effort since election day to overturn an election joe biden won by more than 7 million votes. Tonight, attorney general william barr with just days left in his role saying there is no basis to seize Voting Machines, that no special counsel is needed on election fraud. Also saying no special counsel is needed on hunter biden. So, why declare this before the cameras with just days left . The major holiday storm taking shape tonigh