Arizona. We hear arguments number 18 roe against wade. Quite often in many of our most famous decisions are ones that the court took that were quite unpopular. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who have helped stick together because they believe in a rule of law. Good evening and welcome to landmark cases. Were about twothirds of the way through our 12week series looking at Historic Supreme Court decisions. Tonights a 1954 case of School Segregation, brown v. Board of education. And were going to begin this evening by listening to linda brown on the roots of this case. My memory of brown began in the fall of 1950, in the quiet kansas city of topeka, where a mildmannered black man took his plump 7yearold daughter by the hand and walked briskly four blocks from their home to the allwhite school and tired without success to enroll his child. That trying to enroll their children in s
Thank you mr. Johnson mrs. Jaquanta did i say that right. You did. Thank you. Conner and i practice in the hallway i guess there is not enough time. Brittany. Office of cohen. I wanted to share a few remarks on behalf of the supervisor to create this budget and finance subcommittee. So San Francisco has a Critical Role in setting the tone for other is cities under this federal administration we have been the champion of progressive values on pushing the policies that reflect those values we need to be a leader and fight to protect the values the president has threatened and started implement through his executive orders this is why supervisor cohen is ecstatic about the creation. This committee will devote its time to investigating and monitoring the impact of policy changes on our local budget. Will work with City Department as well as stake holders to plan San Franciscos defense of values and priorities our focus is on protecting immigrant poll cease Affordable Health care and insura
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Very reclusive and. We will not talk basketball today. News in opera the finalists for the National Book award in the book called radio free dixie he also serves on the executive board of rights carolina naacp he can tell you weigh more about this book than i can. I just want to use say he does a marvelous job done of putting an met till murder and winching in to the context his earlier book is about another incident that is similar that happened 15 years later did in North Carolina about 25 miles from here. And i learned just a few years ago about another similar incident that happened three blocks from here where a soldier would not move to the back of the bus so the driver shot him. And so the all white jury found the driver not to the guilty. One thing i want to say is working on publicity for this book on Google Images looking for a pitcher of it till there are too important pictures and the pitcher then in his open casket there are not words for what that image shows after all th
Timothy thyssen, also known as, tim tyson, tim is the Senior Research scholar at the center for documentary studies at duke, visiting professor of american christianity in southern culture at the Duke Divinity School and an adjunct professor of american studies at unc chapel hill. So you can tell it is a very inclusive guy. He has an appointment at duke and you and see. Were not, talk basketball tonight. He is the author of which is a finalist for the National Book award. In a book called radio free dick see. Tim also serves on the executive board of the North Carolina naacp. Tim can tell you more about this book than i can. I just want to say that he does a marvelous job of putting emmett tills murder and lynching into a context of American History. His earlier books and is about a similar incident that happened 15 years later North Carolina law 25 miles from here. I learned a few years ago about another similar incident that happened three blocks from here. At the intersection of clu