Members were contingent and unsecure with their jobs. Now its over 70 . That trend seems to be continuing. The trend of state legislatures defunding Higher Education gradually shifting the cost from taxpayers to students, thats now a 25 year trend. Trends like that dont always and quickly. I think theres a future for state funding in higher Public Education is not great. Both of those things do not mind mote bode well for maintaining Higher Education. If i were to recommend anything i would recommend the federal government pay for public Higher Education and make it freeforall children come to all americanamerican s. 60 billion a year and a couple of battleships left, we have actually made public Higher Education a genuine public good. I think without some fundamental change the quality is going to erode. Scientists all over the country having to choose the basic research that will bring in the most dollars. Rather they choose the research that will do the most good for the people in t
and human rights in the united states that actually the schomburg center will be looking at in an upcoming event on march 30 come and the subject of a whole other discussion but it s one of the things that s very inspiring in his stories that he saw so clearly, indignity, injustice against african-americans was connected to the discrimination and the troubles, discrimination against so many voices. and so i was wondering if you d start off by talking a little bit about what brought you to the story, tell us more about him and what makes him so compelling and so exciting as a figure. sure. first let me say that it s great to be with all of you, and it s especially great to be new to schaumburg archives. i used the archive archive so many times in so many things to schaumburg archives for assisting in my research along the way. [applause] i agree. i try to let my projects arrive organically one from another. so early on when i was studying martin luther king, jr., there w
1963 march on washington and adviser to martin luther king jr. and an openly gay man. mr. russen s rustin s letters cover over 40 years of his life, and the correspondents include eleanor holmes norton and martin luther king jr. this is about an hour, 20 minutes. thank you for coming. i, as a lifetime human rights activist, i m especially excited to be talking about bayard rustin because, um, as you can see in his collective letters and as i d like to ask michael to talk about, he was really the, the in some ways sole vote in the civil rights movement who really saw a complete set of linkages between all forms of injustice. and, you know, there s a very sad story of the split between civil rights and human rights in the united states that, actually, the schomburg center s going to be looking at on march 30th which is certainly the subject of a whole other discussion. but it s one of the things that s very inspiring in his story is that he saw so clearly that indignity and