We want to start the conversation by talking about rosa parks. What do we know about rosa parks, jane . I wanted to start today with an evening meeting. That evening is november 27, 1955. On that november 27 rosa parks came to a meeting at dexter Avenue Baptist Church to hear tm howard, dr. Tm howard talked about the recent acquittal of the two killers of emmett till. Dr. King introduce fascinating and howard was there to spread the word. Howard had been one of the key organizers in trying to get even a trial of those two men and after those men he had been acquitted was on a tour through the country to spread the word and to continue the organizing after that travesty had happened as the two men who had lynched emmett till have been found not guilty. So this is november 27, 1955. Rosa parks sits there and she is talking about the lynching of emmett till and he is talking about the deaths of two other organizers in mississippi who would try to register to vote and have been killed and
1970s. A lot of people more che guevara tshirts and his famous speech and all over new york city with the expression che lives and kind of a handsome figure with a scraggly beard and piercing eyes and the black beret tilted a little bit and the star on the beret. He looked like a revolutionary coming in his message seemed to be to somebody who just looked at the tshirts and looked the sayings. Somebody who was coming you know, for the people, power for the people of anyone remembers that expression from the 70s. Fast forward to 2010. Kevin and i have become friends because we both worked at the Associated Press and kevin and i both have a love for military affairs and military stories and we reported extensively and have written about the military and one day he said to me you know, there was a mission back in 1967 in which the green berets went down to bolivia to train them to go hunt che guevara. And i said okay but who is he again . Is he relevant . I was being held little sarcastic
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