Exemplified the activist businessman that often stood at the center of the freedom struggle. A figure that is really frequently under analyzed and continues to be under analyzed i would add. He was often overlooked due to an emphasis on the more incendiary elements of the movement. Protests, mobilizations and other dramatic events. I should add that im on this panel because i in a previous life, i studied North Carolina civil rights history. And so, again, i can speak to the ways in which brandons book is making a really significant intervention here in the history, not only in the civil rights period and the writ at large, but also the Civil Rights Movement and struggle and the black struggle in North Carolina and particular. From winners perch at mechanics and farmers bank in durham, he occupied a critical space. He was a consummate insider and power player and understood the calculus of social change dictated various gated approaches to the pursuit of freedom. This is certainly some
The political history of the coming of the civil war is as important as history can get the only timeause weve ever had in the political system disintegrated. Have three people to talk about this. We have tried to mix the generations. Comment. State general we like to mix the generations. We dont want everyone as old as me. Our first speaker will be pamela brand line. She holds a professorship in Political Science at the university of michigan. She has also taught at ut austin. Historians andof social scientist to. She is the author of two important books. Rethinking the judicial system of resettlement. A title long before the age of trump. That was a slip, i didnt mean that. Honestly. Pamela is going to speak on the of rethinking Party Appeals and capitalist contexts. Lynnecond speaker is josh who is a postdoctoral fellow here at yale. Hes part of the macmillan center. He did his phd at the university of North Carolina at chapel hill. Is teaching a course here at yell on jacksonian de
Civil rights. It simply means just another effort on the part of this [indiscernible] to dominate this country by force and to put into effect these uncalled for in these them noble proposals recommended under the guise of socalled civil rights. Amy after his death in 2003, it was revealed Strom Thurmond had secretly had a child with his black maid. Their granddaughter will join us today from the capital of South Carolina. Then to new york were Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced plans to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Police Killings of unarmed civilians. This situation we are addressing is a crisis, a crisis in the state and a crisis nationwide. It is a crisis of confidence in the criminal justice system. Amy we will speak to gwen carr, the mother of eric garner who died a year ago in Staten Island after being placed in a police chokehold. And we will get the latest on greece. Just days after greek voters overwhelmingly turned down the terms of an international bailout i
Granddaughter of the late Strom Thurmond, the longterm South Carolina segregationist, governor, and senator who ran for president in 1948 opposing civil rights. It simply means just another effort on the part of this [indiscernible] to dominate this country by force and to put into effect these uncalled for in these them noble proposals recommended under the guise of socalled civil rights. Amy after his death in 2003, it was revealed Strom Thurmond had secretly had a child with his black maid. Their granddaughter will join us today from the capital of South Carolina. Then to new york were Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced plans to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Police Killings of unarmed civilians. This situation we are addressing is a crisis, a crisis in the state and a crisis nationwide. It is a crisis of confidence in the criminal justice system. Amy we will speak to gwen carr, the mother of eric garner who died a year ago in Staten Island after being placed in a poli
Granddaughter of the late Strom Thurmond, the longterm South Carolina segregationist, governor, and senator who ran for president in 1948 opposing civil rights. It simply means just another effort on the part of this [indiscernible] to dominate this country by force and to put into effect these uncalled for in these them noble proposals recommended under the guise of socalled civil rights. Amy after his death in 2003, it was revealed Strom Thurmond had secretly had a child with his black maid. Their granddaughter will join us today from the capital of South Carolina. Then to new york were Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced plans to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Police Killings of unarmed civilians. This situation we are addressing is a crisis, a crisis in the state and a crisis nationwide. It is a crisis of confidence in the criminal justice system. Amy we will speak to gwen carr, the mother of eric garner who died a year ago in Staten Island after being placed in a poli