ladies and gentlemen, dionne warwick. do you mind if i sing? if you see me walking down the street dionne warwick, one of the great female singers of all time. walk on by i heard dionne warwick s voice, and i never heard a voice like that before. and you re never going hear a voice like that again. don t make me over dionne s music is generation. they just don t do it like that anymore. when dionne opens her mouth, did i don t know it was dionne? of course you did. her voice was like water in the desert. she quenches thirst. she was always so elegant, in her dress, in her demeanor, in her delivery. always the picture of elegance. what s it all about dionne s voice has this beautiful melancholy tone that just touches your heart. i could actually feel what she was feeling. i feel dionne was an ideal partner for burton howl, a magical combination. the way she brought their songs to life, it was an amazing thing to watch. crossover
No. Remember, we still have housing segregation. It was rigid and state enforced. So our communities were mixed communities, down the street. Where the kids with no shoes that our parents would make sure that what little we had were shared. No matter what your socioeconomic status was. And we were between two public parks. Two Public Housing units. And so, i guess when you were able to move out of the housing unit and my parents were pleased that we never had to live in a housing unit that we did live in a fourstory walkup. Before we moved to where we lived. And those who were able to get into the community were those who were able to get a plot of land and two were able to build a house. Even when that happened, you were still in an all Africanamerican Community with people who were not economically self sufficient and you had friends in the housing unit. So you understood and you interacted with them at school. You are all there together. And i think it made a difference, in terms of
No. Remember, we still have housing segregation. It was rigid and state enforced. So our communities were mixed communities, down the street. Where the kids with no shoes that our parents would make sure that what little we had were shared. No matter what your socioeconomic status was. And we were between two public parks. Two Public Housing units. And so, i guess when you were able to move out of the housing unit and my parents were pleased that we never had to live in a housing unit that we did live in a fourstory walkup. Before we moved to where we lived. And those who were able to get into the community were those who were able to get a plot of land and two were able to build a house. Even when that happened, you were still in an all Africanamerican Community with people who were not economically self sufficient and you had friends in the housing unit. So you understood and you interacted with them at school. You are all there together. And i think it made a difference, in terms of
History tv, all weekend every weekend on cspan three. To join the conversation, like us on facebook. On lectures in history, a class on world war ii and civil rights. She talks about racial conflicts over housing, Voting Rights and integrating workplaces and the military. Her classes about one hour and 15 minutes. Hi everybody, welcome. Our topic for today is black americans and world war ii. Is,big question of the day how should we understand the relationship between world war ii and the modern Civil Rights Movement . Hopefully the reading give you a lot to think about. During world war ii, recruiting posters aimed at africanamericans used images of miller decorated with his navy cross and joe lewis and his uniform to send the image that black americans were wanted and needed in the American Military and their service would be rewarded and respected. As you read, the reality of the black experience in the war was not that simple. The posters themselves, when we tease them apart, refle
History tv, all weekend every weekend on cspan three. To join the conversation, like us on facebook. On lectures in history, a class on world war ii and civil rights. She talks about racial conflicts over housing, Voting Rights and integrating workplaces and the military. Her classes about one hour and 15 minutes. Hi everybody, welcome. Our topic for today is black americans and world war ii. Is,big question of the day how should we understand the relationship between world war ii and the modern Civil Rights Movement . Hopefully the reading give you a lot to think about. During world war ii, recruiting posters aimed at africanamericans used images of miller decorated with his navy cross and joe lewis and his uniform to send the image that black americans were wanted and needed in the American Military and their service would be rewarded and respected. As you read, the reality of the black experience in the war was not that simple. The posters themselves, when we tease them apart, refle