A lot of men died, but strategically, it was a victory. I characterize this entire campaign is being the most successful of this conflict thus far. Its success is unprecedented. We are seeing americans come to grips with largescale the enemies units. Is is going to be a pattern of the war . It seems evident that the leadership in hanoi has sent down to South Vietnam regular forces. How many more, we do not know. It was a bitter and valuable experience. It taught us the value of mobility in fighting a guerrilla war. It has also pointed out the brutal fact that hanoi intends to commit a filled army to vietnam. Communists are massing in South Vietnam, and so are we. They feel we are divided. There impressed by student demonstrations. In hanoi, a student is a rare and honored member of society. The enemy knows he cannot defeat us in the field, but by killing americans, he hopes to demoralize us at home. That is what happened to france in 1954. Our armed forces are willing to take necessary
You also heard, as i mentioned when i wrote my mem wires, that we saw the impeach earl warren signs and i always wondered who this earl warren was. Later on of course i would figure it out, that it was the chief justice of the United States and he was in trouble in part because of brown. I guess there is no way i could say did you ever think that you would be sitting in the building where earl warren worked. Not only didnt i think of that, i didnt think that i would ever see the building where he worked. Now, as you found out what it meant as you grow older, did you have some idea of what it might mean, what it could mean as opposed to what it may have turned out to mean . You know, my grandfather was an interesting man, he of course, dominated our lives and he felt that as these rights were vindicated that we had an obligation to measure up to use them. I will give you a separate example. When the Savanna Public Library finally desegregated and we were allowed to go to the main librar
That is what we have been told up till now. But do we really know rosa parks . The answer according to our guest this evening is very definitely, no. We welcome to the center for the book tonight, dr. Danielle mcguire, assistant professor of history at Wayne State University in detroit. Her new book is at the dark end of the street black women, rape, and resistance. A new history of the Civil Rights Movement from rosa parks through the rise of black power. As her subtitle suggests, the book does not not merely shed new light on rosa parks and the beginnings of the Civil Rights Movement, it offers us nothing less than a new way of approaching an understanding both the womens history and the underpinnings of the Civil Rights Movement. It is a scholarly yet riveting narrative that traces a sordid history of Sexual Violence directed against black women in the jim crow era and illuminates how the littleknown actions of rosa parks long before that bus boycott helped create the impetus for Ci
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