Investment program. Those were headquartered in coral gables florida. 1982. Senator max left the successful banking career to run for the house of representatives. Upon returning to the private sector the chairman of the moffitt campus. With that i will hit it over to governor bush to begin the conversation. You can submit your questions through the chat feature. See mac it is such a joy to have this conversation with him a man i admire so much ive read the book connie, its a great book. The New York Times today have an article about independent bookstores that i think is worth mentioning im a kindle guy. But when i buy a book. I buy ten books to be able to send to friends. Its important to be able to focus on the fact that as a nation we need to be literate in supporting authors across the spectrum. I am a big fan of yours and a big supporter of this. I read on kindle. If you have a chance to do it i suggest you do it at an independent bookstore. They are struggling during the pandemi
Professor taylor focuses on the 1954 u. S. Supreme Court Decision in brown v. Board of education, the integration of a high school in little rock, arkansas, and the 1960 sit in at a lunch counter in greensboro, North Carolina. Folks, welcome to this class in africanAmerican History. Were going Movement Origin our discussion of the Civil Rights Movement tonight. For those of you in this room who know who i am, but for others im Quintard Taylor and im a professor of history, American History at the university of washington. Ok, well get started. Last time last week we talked about world war ii and one of the things that i tried to emphasize was the fact that ordinary people were becoming much more militants or militant or aggressive in defending their civil rights. Im going to continue that theme tonight and, indeed, i think its even more so the case in the 1950s and 1960s that ordinary people became the engines of the Civil Rights Movement. We tend to think about the Civil Rights Moveme
Emphasize was the fact that ordinary people were becoming much more militant and aggressive in defending their civil rights. Im going to continue that theme tonight and, indeed, i think its even more so the case in the 1950s and 1960s that ordinary people became the engines of the Civil Rights Movement. We tend to think about the Civil Rights Movement as Martin Luther king, jr. , fanny hammer and largerthanlife figures. The Civil Rights Movement was made up by ordinary people including and youll find out tonight a lot of College Students. A lot of College Students. In fact, in some ways the driving force of the Civil Rights Movement came from people who were probably no older than you in this room. I want you to remember that. College students were the main force in terms of the Civil Rights Movement. Okay. I want us to keep that in mind when we talk of the evolution of this movement. Ill begin the lecture by discussing the decade of the 1950s because the 1950s really provide, i think,
Were going Movement Origin our discussion of the Civil Rights Movement tonight. For those of you, those of you in this room know who i am but for others im Quintard Taylor and im a professor of history, American History at the university of washington. Ok, well get started. Last time last week we talked about world war ii and one of the things that i tried to emphasize was the fact that ordinary people were becoming much more militant and aggressive in defending their civil rights. Im going to continue that theme tonight and, indeed, i think its even more so the case in the 1950s and 1960s that ordinary people became the engines of the Civil Rights Movement. We tend to think about the Civil Rights Movement as Martin Luther king, jr. , fanny hammer and largerthanlife figures. The Civil Rights Movement was made up by ordinary people including and youll find out tonight a lot of college students. A lot of college students. In fact, in some ways the driving force of the Civil Rights Moveme
And noble Young Adult Book Club pick for winter 2020. Not bad for a first time novelist, abigail hing wen. Born to a family of immigrants; mom from the philippines, dad from indonesia, abigail went on to graduate from harvard and Columbia Law School and now works in silicon valley. Oh, and she also got her masters of fine arts and writing from Vermont College of fine arts. Welcome to the show. Abigail hing wen thank you for having me. Robert and its so great. This is your first tv interview about your book. Abigail it is. It is. So youre breaking me in. Robert okay, well, loveboat, taipei first of all, you did a great job coming up with the title that everybodycatches everybodys attention. What is the significance of loveboat as well as loveboat, taipei . Abigail so theres this program that is fairly wellknown in certain circles in the asianamerican community. Parents would send their kids to taiwan since the 1960s to learn language and culture and to find a spouse, potentially. So tha