Industry, americas Cable Television company, as a public and brought to you today i your television provider. Good evening. My name is leslie kavasch and im here to introduce our guest, clyde ford. Client is former assistant engineer with ibm. He graduated from university of Western State here in portland as a doctor of chiropractic, and he is a trained psychotherapist. He the awardwinning author of 12 works of fiction and nonfiction. Clive is recipient of the rate award, in African American literature as well as numerous other awards for his books. Hes been a guest on the oprah show, npr, and radio and tv programs across the nation. Clyde is here tonight to speak about his latest book think black which was just released shortlisted for the 2019 book prize in social justice. Wed you please join me in welcoming to the planetarium at the Oregon Museum of science and industry clyde ford. [applause] thank you leslie and thank you all for being here. I cant tell you how special it is to bee
Good evening. Im here to introduce our guest. Clive is a former Systems Engineer with ibm. Graduated from university here in portland as a doctor of chiropractic and a trained psychotherapist. Also the awardwinning author of small works of fiction and nonfiction. A recipient of the Richard Wright awarded africanamerican literature as well as numerous other words he is been a guest on oprah, and pr, radio and tv programs across the nation he appears tonight you speak about his latest book think plaque which was just shortlisted for the 2019 prize of social justice. Please join me to welcome to the kendall planetary in at the Oregon Museum of science and industry. [applause] thank you leslie and all for being here i cannot tell you how special it is to be here. Was just talking with the president , nancy and just re living my First Experience over 40 years ago at Washington Park and i was a volunteer working with a group that actually was involved i had just come from ibm to go to Chirop
Programs across the nation he appears tonight you speak about his latest book think plaque which was just shortlisted for the 2019 prize of social justice. Please join me to welcome to the kendall planetary in at the Oregon Museum of science and industry. [applause] thank you leslie and all for being here i cannot tell you how special it is to be here. Was just talking with the president , nancy and just re living my First Experience over 40 years ago at Washington Park and i was a volunteer working with a group that actually was involved i had just come from ibm to go to Chiropractic College and i needed something to do around computers and i was able to get computer time by exchanging my work to help them develop the pascal compiler it is that will date yourself but thats how i got involved i used to have a key late at night i would go up at one or two in the morning and say there is a visible lady there we can punch the button some of you may remember what that was like. Where was s
My name is Leslie Leslie kavasch im here to introduce our guest, cyde ford, a former assistant engineer with ibm. He graduated from the university of western states in portland as a doctor of chiropractic and the era pissed. Hes also the awardwinning author of 12 works of fiction and nonfiction. Clyde is the recipient of the richard ray award, in africanamerican literature. He has been a guest on the oprah show, in pr, radio and tv programs across the nation. Clyde is here to speak about his latest book, think black a memoir of sacrifice, which was just released, shortlisted for the book prize in social justice. Please join me in welcoming to the kendall planetarium at the Oregon Museum of science and industry, cyde ford. [applause] thank you all for being here, i cant tell you how special it is to be here. I was just reliving my First Experience over 40 years ago up at Washington Park and i was a volunteer. I was working with a group, i had come from ibm to go to chiropractic college.
Forum on genesis and persistence in advocacy for peace. Faith organizations. My name is john roth. I am editor of the mennonite orderly review and professor of history at Goshen College in northern indiana. I am delighted to serve as moderator of this conversation. Anyone who has taken a tour of the museum here or seen footage of the flag waving parades of enthusiastic young conscripts as they departed for military Training Camp in the summer of 1917 might have the impression that support for the war and the United States entry into the conflict was universal. Yet those of us gathered here for this conference are keenly aware that there were many voices of caution, of dissent, of objection, and even open resistance to the war fever that seemed to grip the nation in the spring and summer of 1917. As we will hear in the days that followed, that dissent originated from many different sources and took many expressions. But one of the lead edges of resistance to the war came from various re