Professor taylor focuses on the 1954 u. S. Supreme Court Decision in brown v. Board of education, the integration of a high school in little rock, arkansas, and the 1960 sit in at a lunch counter in greensboro, North Carolina. Folks, welcome to this class in africanAmerican History. Were going Movement Origin our discussion of the Civil Rights Movement tonight. For those of you in this room who know who i am, but for others im Quintard Taylor and im a professor of history, American History at the university of washington. Ok, well get started. Last time last week we talked about world war ii and one of the things that i tried to emphasize was the fact that ordinary people were becoming much more militants or militant or aggressive in defending their civil rights. Im going to continue that theme tonight and, indeed, i think its even more so the case in the 1950s and 1960s that ordinary people became the engines of the Civil Rights Movement. We tend to think about the Civil Rights Moveme
Emphasize was the fact that ordinary people were becoming much more militant and aggressive in defending their civil rights. Im going to continue that theme tonight and, indeed, i think its even more so the case in the 1950s and 1960s that ordinary people became the engines of the Civil Rights Movement. We tend to think about the Civil Rights Movement as Martin Luther king, jr. , fanny hammer and largerthanlife figures. The Civil Rights Movement was made up by ordinary people including and youll find out tonight a lot of College Students. A lot of College Students. In fact, in some ways the driving force of the Civil Rights Movement came from people who were probably no older than you in this room. I want you to remember that. College students were the main force in terms of the Civil Rights Movement. Okay. I want us to keep that in mind when we talk of the evolution of this movement. Ill begin the lecture by discussing the decade of the 1950s because the 1950s really provide, i think,
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Good evening. My name is tony green. I am the Vice President for programs and National Outreach at the National Constitution center. I want to welcome you. Today, we are spending a lot of time marking the 40th anniversary of the Voting Rights act. Were looking at it through the lens of one woman, viola liuzzo, who died in the Civil Rights Movement. Upstairs, and im sure all of you have been to the National Constitution Center Exhibit space, we have something called the American National tree, which has the stories of 100 people. And two of the people on there, at least, are heroes of the Civil Rights Movement and the battle to get to the Voting Rights act, and they are viola liuzzo and john lewis, who is supposed to be here tonight, but unfortunately is stuck in washington for votes. Gary may, who has written a very readable, interesting, and compelling book, is with us tonight to talk about the fbis role in Viola Liuzzos murder, the ku klux klan, and the other factors that led to why
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