Afternoon. Organizing across the boundaries, strategies and coalitions in the struggle for the civil rights and social justice. Before we get started i just wanted to explain a little bit about the genesis of this panel or this how it came about like a lot of great ideas, i came across this book doing a search in the catalog. And this is many months ago we were kind of thinking about what do we want to do. There are so many books that come out on if Civil Rights Movement every year. We thought lets focus on some that are kind of different and interesting that kind of change how we think about the movement, kind of up in our understanding of it. Hen we came across this one. It has a great cover art. We loved how she was looking at these groups in an area we dont often think about and how these two groups came together in their struggles. So dr. Rice is going to be our first speaker. She earned her ph. D. From berkeley. Shes now a professor in ohio. Shes taught there since 2007. This is
The symposium to Mark National heritage month. Its about half an hour. Good afternoon, and welcome back. This is our next panel in the afternoon session of this symposium organizing across the boundaries, strategies and coalitions and the struggle for the civil rights and social justice. Before we get started, i just wanted to explain a little bit about the genesis of this panel or whole symposium and how it came about. Like a lot of great ideas that come about the library, came across this book just doing a search in the catalog, and this is many months ago. We were kind of thinking about what do we want to do for this Public Program series, and theres so many books that come out on the Civil Rights Movement every year. We thought, well, lets focus on some that are kind of different and interesting that kind of change how we think about the movement, kind of upend our understanding of it, and so when we came across this one by lorne ariza we got excited, not just because it had such g
The start of the u General Assembly meeting. U. N. General assembly meeting. We want to begin with a piece that is the cover story of the the weeklyard standard. Oh two decades of discontent. Suit youes, 20 can also join diane rejigged cash join in on the conversation on our facebook page, or you can send us a tweet, http twitter. Com cspanwj. Miserable decades, then and now, that is the cover story. Nestled within the comfortable battling of keys, growth, and civility, every happy time is unhappy in its own way. That is from the weekly standard, with the picture of Richard Nixon, former president jimmy carter, and the situation i in munich during the sun rejigged summer 1972 olympic games. Inwill get to your calls just a moment. The president last night addressed the Congressional Black Caucus, outlining his agenda as lawmakers began the debate in the senate on whether or not to keep the federal government running. T debbie rejigged two key votes last night. [video clip] we are seeing
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