Welcome to montgomery, alabama, on American History tv. It is considered one of americas most historic cities for its role on the civil war and Civil Rights Movement. Today, it has a population of 205000 and is alabamas secondlargest city. With the help of our Cable Partners, over the next 90 thetes, hear the story of montgomery bus boycott and its impact on the city. Each day that the buses ran empty, the bus company lost about 3000 per day. About 1955. Ng three thousand dollars was the average yearly salary of most people in the area. It speaks to the amount of of the busestate because remember the bus fare was only . 10. Quite later, we will learn about an alabama governor who made a bid for the presidency. When people ask him what the takeaway from the 1958 campaign is, he says, i try to talk about progressive improvement and good and goodgood roads schools, known would listen. When i started to talk about segregation, everyone started to listen to me. But first, learn about court
Im at the university of memphis. Welcome to the roundtable discussion of Stokely Carmichael. We thought this would be an appropriate moment to discuss Stokely Carmichael. An important locus of civil rights organizing. His political journey takes us through atlanta. Born in trinidad, raised in the bronx, educated at howard university. Moreover, at the 50 year anniversary, between the most formative experiences of Stokely Carmichaels political life. He organized the freedom independent like party. Ependent he introduced the slogan black power. He organized in atlanta and washington, d. C. He traveled the world in alliance with revolutionary political movements. Moving to ginny, changing his name and devoting his last years to the all African Peoples revolutionary party. We brought together a panel of historians and activists. We begin with charles cobb junior. A scholar of the black freedom movement. He attended Harvard University and got involved in demonstrations against segregation. H
Host Walt Mossberg, has technology plateaued . Guest oh, no, absolutely not. Absolutely not. Technology is always changing and always coming up with Technology Companies are always coming up with something new, and there are new Technology Companies all the time incubating, a lot of them are in what we call stealth mode. We dont even know who they are. Certain technologies plateau and things move on, but in general, no. Not at all. Host i guess i ask that because the last couple years weve had the explosion of smartphones, weve had tablets come online. Whats out there . Guest well, first of all, there are vast numbers of people especially in the less developed cups, but even in the developed countries who dont own a smartphone and, certainly, there are vast thurms that dont own numbers that dont own a tablet. To give you a rough example, apple which leads in the tablet market has sold somewhere around 160 million ipads since 2010. Thats a remarkable achievement and for people that own
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YOUNGSTOWN Joan Trumpauer Mulholland vividly recalled a day when she was about 10 years old and she and a white friend named Mary walked into an area of bla