Decision of the United States Supreme Court batting segregation in public transportation. My street mate on that Greyhound Bus you must understand in 1961 black people and white people could be seated together. When you get out of washington to travel to virginia to North Carolina, alabama, mississippi, wewere on our way to new orleans. So we didnt have any problems for the most part until we got to rockville. And a little place in charlotte North Carolina, it was a sizable city, a young africanamerican man attempted to get a shoeshine in a socalled white barbershop that was in a socalled white waiting room. He was arrested and taken to jail. The next day the jury dismissed the charges against him but my seatmate and two of us arrived at the Greyhound Bus station in South Carolina and a group of white men met us in the doorway and started beating us and left us lying in a pool of blood and the local officials came up and wanted to know whether we wanted to press charges andwe said no ,
We are marking 15 years of booktv on cspan2. Here are some programs to watch this weekend on booktv. All weekend we are live from the 2013 southern festival of books in nashville would some of the operas featured are kitty but the run end of light care, the removal of tennessee governor ray blanton in 1979. And the jfk association. See a complete schedule of the days events and also a look at a late alexander cockburns book a colossal wreck. Aero difficult political scandals and American Culture at 9 00 on sunday. A 00 p. M. Sunday your thoughts what does not apply here. Up next representative john lewis, a democrat from georgia. The 14 term congressman talks about his role in the Civil Rights Movement, Race Relations in the obama event political partisanship on capitol hill, he has written wind a memoir of the movement, across that bridge life lessons and a vision for change and march book 1. Congressman john lewis, who is elwin wilson . Guest id met him in 1961. I was part of the fre
International Day of Women Judges is observed on March 10th every year to celebrate women's contributions to the judiciary and promote gender equality. On this occasion, here is a list of famous female lawyers in the world who have made an impact in the industry.
Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas accused a Biden administration judicial nominee of praising Marxism and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs, as well as citing scholars who believe that most sex is tantamount to rape.