Good morning, everyone. Ladies and gentlemen, it is time. It is time. End to theto put an lost cause and fully embrace the righteous cause. It is time to replace the racist symbols of oppression and inequality, symbols that have dominated our landscape with symbols that represent and summon the best in all of us, in all of our people, ones that reflect the diverse, inclusive and equitable city we are today, and we continue to strive to be. It is time to heal, ladies and gentlemen. Richmond is no longer at the confederacy. [applause] it is time to show our community how much love we have here. It is time we embrace our diversity. It is time we remove that hinder the dreams of black children in our community. Through 100 plus years since these monuments were erected, we have known better. We know better during jim crow. We knew better during mass resistance. We knew better long before the dying pleas of young black men like george floyd. We have two ben 10 makes pandemics in this country
Not only it was really affected by the brown versus board of education but it was actually one of five cases that was ruled into an umbrella brown case. The reason that, because it was part of the progress of brown b board of education was the one young woman named robert johns junior led a walkout to protest the conditions of her school in farmville virginia in 1965 and that walkout from the naacp attorney in richmond and they agreed to come meet with Barbara Johns but that decision led the naacp to take up the case and file a lawsuit on the of those students and that eventually made all the way to the Supreme Court. The brown versus board of education and it was student led case out of the five. And county leaders there were so stunned by the decision, as were virginia leaders and leaders across the south in the country. And i think Prince Edward county leaders felt particularly embarrassed and particularly nervous that they would be held up as an example and forced to integrate for
What prompted you to read the book this way . I wanted to write some thing to mark its 50th anniversary in business 50 years of my life, of kings legacy and his life coincided with my coming of age. So part of it was to do those two tasks. I felt i had connect it to the king legacy and yet i felt there was something about my life that needed to be told in order to understand how king impacted me and how i got involved in this amazing journey of editing kings papers. Well, its an excellent read. You and i are at the same generation i too am coming of age in the six days in the book i must say was bittersweet army because i knew dr. King. He was my mentor. I knew him to last years of his life. And bitter because the way he was taken from us because of racial hatred in this country. I guess we start at the beginning because the beginning of your book here on the mall with dr. King and near the end of your book, 50 years later with his monument, which you help to design. And in between, co
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