Extraordinary life. Its as if Marian Wright edelman has this forrest gump life. She was in these places, in extraordinary places, and every page you turn of your life story is like, she was there, too . I guess im not even sure where to start. South carolina, your parents are very hardworking, your mom is an organizer, but even when you were a kid in school in south carolina, you end up crossing paths with langston hughes. Well, ive always felt so lucky to have been born who i was, where i was, with the parents i had. And at the time, i was born in the convergence of great people and great historical events. And so i wouldnt have been anybody else, even though it has not always been an easy life. And in south carolina, in my little, rural, segregated town, the outside world was not very friendly and not very supportive of black children. They told me basically in a segregated small town in the 40s and the 50s that, as a black girl, i wasnt worth very much. Hinojosa and you would hear t
And irish will be forced to merge after order from the archdiocese there will not be a new church for everybody our lady is forced to shut down operations and urged to consolidate with the church of the Immaculate Conception they will be renamed the church of the blessed after mother teresa. Parishioners are happy although attendance has been down over the past 20 years 76 chasing news now head of the 392 now the other this conversation has stayed the same. They have raised a lot of money but it is about attendance so the unofficial first family they owned the deli just a couple blocks away and grandparents actually help to build it with their bare hands 100 years ago. My parents have been parishioners at mount carmel meet my brothers and my sister were all buried there they are completely devastated. We are a staple in the neighborhood kids in the church you did is very upsetting. The main reason at mount carmel is closing down is dwindling attendance every brigade with the alliance.
Or country we just shoot our guns off or whatever it is we do up the back woods, and all that stuff they have all the stereotypes about us but none of it is true. There actually a lot of issues that flyover country nation has with east and west coast but theres a lot of issues we look at incredibly differently. Part of it is explaining that perspective, that leinster which myself and everybody else has overcome the midwest of flyover nation. That perspective that we look at issues but it also gets into how we are kind of tired of being kicked around and tired of taking it all of this time. It explains why so many people have risen up why this election cycle is as weird as it is. We cannot even trend or predict anything, anticipate anything anymore. It explains all of that. One of the things to that to point this out as well, i was in the middle of writing this book it actually had finished it with that, at about new york values happen. Remember how everybody was so angry about new york
He told me he didnt really understand why were in vietnam but they were very much against the behavior. And they thought there was antipatriotism, what they thought was not very patriotic. Where am where am i on questions and answering. One more. I guess i just wanted to say i think its important to remember that it took very, very little to provoke the fbi. I was a tax resistor, i was just a nobody but i decided i would not pay my telephone tax so i closed my Bank Accounts and i wrote a letter to the Telephone Company and the irs every month. And why did you do this . Because the telephone tax had been approved to fund a war. I was a woman, my boyfriend was a conscientious objector, i felt there there wasnt quite so much that a woman could do, but that provoked visits from the fbi. That tiny little thing from a nobody meant that my landlord was visited, i was visited and my father who was a republican had his taxes audio audited. Thats amazing. I really didnt take much. They were all
Born journalist, social reformer and photographer. This program is just under an hour. Im cheryl regan, im an exhibit director and im an exhibit director at the library of congress. Im barbara bear, the curator of this exhibit and the manuscript. Its a copresentation with the museum of the city of new york. It is the first time that the collections of the library of congress, the jacob riis papers, have been married with the photographs that are stellar collection at the museum of the city of new york. We picked the word copresentation very carefully. Because the exhibition here actually follows an exhibit that was at the museum of the city of new york and really that exhibit which was called jacob riis revealing new yorks other half, was slightly different. It looks at riis in a slightly different way and sort of concentrating more on his biography, more on his photography. Here we are looking at riis as the journalist because thats the strength of our collection. The papers here, whi