Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 the convention in 1960 and there was a lady there named claire luper from i want to say Oklahoma City, and she spent all of her time talking about sitins that had been done by the naacp youth chapter in Oklahoma City and i remember going away from that saying, yeah, but no one knew about them other than claire luper and a couple other people. Thats again, that thing in history sometimes when you do something, when you have a context, that accords significance, rather than whether youve done it or not. I dont doubt that claire luper and her group had done sitins. But we know about the North Carolina people. They had an impact. We know about the friendship nine. I think they had an impact. Historically thats what we look for as we look at the social string that pushes this string that pushes that one that pushes that one. Thats the key point, i think i see it the way you do. You were able to set in motion very quickly, but turning th
In person at 184 south chandler indicated georgia. We are now the new school store for the college but drink the coronavirus we are coming to you live from my home office and atlanta, georgia. We have been doing a whole series of Educational Programs that fall under our mission of fostering Sustainable Community can work you for social justice and encouraging new expression and voices all through the use of virtual formats. We feel very fortunate that we the privilege of talking to authors who live all over the country during this time. We feel it is really, really significant that we continue to the programming that we already had scheduled because folks need history as we move through this historic time. Theres really no, i can think of no better book two of us focused on what the movement from black lights needs right now, what we who are white and what to contribute to the movement for black lives can do right now then this book race man julian bond selected works, 19602015. We had
2009. Conducted by Smithsonian National museum of africanAmerican History and culture. The American Folk Life Center at the library of congress and the Southern Oral History Program at the university of North Carolina chapel hill. My parents were walter b. Ghaiaither and fannie b. Little gaither. Gray fall was my fathers home. My mother, fannie mae, was originally from anderson, South Carolina. And my mom and dad met while they were students at Friendship Junior College in rock hill, South Carolina. After they both graduated from friendship, they of course moved permanent ly to great falls. And initially, they were both school teachers. You could be a schoolteacher at that time with just a Junior College education. My dad did not stay in teaching. Because he discovered that what was listen on his contract as his per month payment for teaching was not the same as he was receiving. And this was at a time when the board of education were all composed of white men. So at the end of the yea
Announcer there are more than 400 National Parks across america, covering 85 million acres of land with locations in every state. People 325 million visited these sites last year. Over the next 90 minutes, we will feature a mixture of Natural Beauty and history at eight different parks across the country. We began outside cleveland at the cuyahoga National Park. Situated along the river, we will learn how the canal system in ourayed a major role nations westward expansion during the 1840s. The ohio and erie canal is part of a system that was put in place in the early years of america, between 1825 and 1832. It is a water transportation route that connected lake erie with the ohio river, which is part of a larger idea. A National Water transportation route. In the early days of america we had colonies situated right along the atlantic seaboard. Our leaders at that time so i problem. The problem was, we needed that country to expand westward. However, there was a big obstacle. The appala
Under the Circle Mission with the Community Working for social justice and encouraging diverse and marginalized, all through the virtual formats, we feel very fortunate that we have the privilege of talking to authors who live around the country during this time and we feel it is really significant that we continue to do the programming that we are to have scheduled because folks need history as we move through this historic time. There is really no, i cannot give a better book to help us focus on what the movement on right now and what we can do right now, and the books of 1962 and 2015. We have the editor here, michael and pam who is a lifelong collaborator for justice in his widow we hope will be on soon, shes having technical difficulties. Im going to invite you to settling and make yourself at home and we will get to some questions in the chat, please keep your cell phone and you can turn your camera on, you do not have to turn it on but were just going to enjoy some time with mic