This is ktvu channel 2 morning news. Welcome back, looking live at the 49ers stadium, 4ers arrived at the Training Facility last night and it was not a very happy mood except the fans were very encouraging and very nice fans welcoming them back and we will hear more from them t alex from them. We will hear more from alex savage. Steve, are you singing a new tune . Steve what are you doing . I am not singing a new tune, it may be a little more colors pie the coast and some are lows, napa 33, livermore 35, san jose 40 and some mid30s as well. Palo alto to woodside there is nothing going on for us, sunny and mild, still an easterly breeze coming off the hill, not much change we should be in the up every 50s and 60s, here is sal. We are looking at a commute which still looks pretty good. A lot of people have the king holiday off as you know and that will make it easier, a lot of the schools are closed and taking a look at the commute at the toll plaza, it is light and by now well see more
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
So journalism and the articles and the pamphlets this people dont read 500 page book. They read articles. We need to have newspapers and blogs, thats really what makes these movements work. I want to go back to the thinking about what they offer us today and then kind of what the myths i often talk about them is a fables because i think theyre told to us to give us certain messages i would argue are sort of problematic. I think most School Children now learn that rosa parks was courageous. Right . But that courage is framed through this image of a tired, accidental act that spontaneously bursts a movement. Right . When, if we actually look at her courage, what her courage is about is something far more profound. And first, its the courage of perseverance. Right . She has been active for two decades at that point, politically active for two decades. She had made stand before, people she knows made stands before and they basically have gone nowhere. I think part of the lesson of somebody
North and groundworks about the Civil Rights Movement. Dr. Weathered. See thank you. [applause] its good to have everybody out this afternoon. We have got a distinguished conversation here with my professor mary berry at the university of pennsylvania. [applause] Barbara Ransby is the author of a tiger free of ella baker of Eslanda Robeson and Jeanne Theoharis the author of the new biography on rosa parks. [applause] 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 o
The beginning, from 2006 when the National Archives hired me to do this, i was very straightforward about what i was going to do. So there is no debate in switching. The archives came to me. But it was a very interesting conflict of different events because the head of the Nixon Foundation at that point was john taylor, rev. John taylor. And john taylor is an intellectual. He is very complicated. He is a bit torn about nixon. And he admired nixons mind. And he wanted nixons library to be credible. Now, i dont believe that every member of the Nixon Foundation shared johns intellectual goal. He really wanted the cold war historian. He knew who i was because i had worked on the project with pda. I just let the materials speak for themselves. I write books, but on different subjects. John taylor wanted me, too. He was hired by thenpresident george w. Bush. My first book is about the cuban missile crisis. Both of them wanted me. They came to me. I did not apply for the job. From the beginni