The third person on the list was helen thomas. She wound up writing the forward. She passed away in july. In fact, shes one of ten people in my book who have passed away since ive interviewed them. I want to show you a brief slide show of some of the about 90 people who are in the book and some of their reflections on john kennedy. Afterward, ill come back for a few minutes, and then scott will come up and speak. And i suppose i am a [inaudible] in that 24 hours for the first couple of days. I would think that i, you know, became more realistic as a journalist and saw the larger screen probably and the consequences of during action and the evil that can come even to america. So i do think it was a seminal time for me. The Television Set was, if you will, the centrifuge for the country. Everybody yes. Drew from it in some fashion. I think his legacy was in the boldness of his rhetoric and declaration. I met him as a Young High School student. I was visiting my father at the United State
Rights leader who organized the union. Hosted by the association for the study of African American life and history, this event is about two hours. Thank you, everybody, for coming here. My name is alan spiers, im the npca has served as leading voice of the American People on behalf of their National Parks since we were founded in 1919. Its our mission to protect and enhance americas parks for current and future generations. We are a very proud partner of the association. They are hosting their 99 conference. I look forward to celebrating their centennial next european we have a couple of objectives today. About two hours to chat with you about some important topics. Adding a unit to the National Park service on Chicagos Southside would commemorate the industrialist capitalist. Merchants of the brotherhood of sleeping car porters. Connected topics. , if peopleet started could make sure if you have a cell phone, please place it on silent or vibrate or turn it off so we dont have birds c
All right. So again try to listen up and well talk a little bit about it. See what you remember from the we are on the moon for our liberation. We have been tired of trying to prove things to like people we are tired of trying to explain to why people that were not going to hurt them. We are concerned with getting the things we want the things that we have to have to be able to function by 1967. The Freedom Movement was changing course across the nation black men and women struggle for control of their lives. Develop box on the street in the schools at the call for power challenge. They established relationship between blacks and whites in america. Okay, so thats just a little review of where we were last week with the documentary from eyes and the prize looking at black power Stokely Carmichael provides a really great introduction and what purpose of black power is how it folds into this. Part is really fold into the Civil Rights Movement at the stage. So the years after the passage o
All right. So again try to listen up and well talk a little bit about it. See what you remember from the we are on the moon for our liberation. We have been tired of trying to prove things to like people we are tired of trying to explain to why people that were not going to hurt them. We are concerned with getting the things we want the things that we have to have to be able to function by 1967. The Freedom Movement was changing course across the nation black men and women struggle for control of their lives. Develop box on the street in the schools at the call for power challenge. They established relationship between blacks and whites in america. Okay, so thats just a little review of where we were last week with the documentary from eyes and the prize looking at black power Stokely Carmichael provides a really great introduction and what purpose of black power is how it folds into this. Part is really fold into the Civil Rights Movement at the stage. So the years after the passage o
Changing course across the nation black men and women struggle for control of their lives. Develop box on the street in the schools at the call for power challenge. They established relationship between blacks and whites in america. Okay, so thats just a little review of where we were last week with the documentary from eyes and the prize looking at black power Stokely Carmichael provides a really great introduction and what purpose of black power is how it folds into this. Part is really fold into the Civil Rights Movement at the stage. So the years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act the Voting Rights act as is demonstrated in what weve covered so far. Was a time of racial reckoning comparable to the years after the civil after the civil war civil rights legislation, as you know, dismantled legally mandated systems segregation laws in this franchisement in the south and broadened federal protections of citizenship rights. Black power represented the broadbased struggle of afric