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,
Were going Movement Origin our discussion of the Civil Rights Movement tonight. For those of you, those of you in this room 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 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 Moveme
Before we leave you this morning by 10 00am pockets maybe remaining along the coast to later this morning or even in the early afternoon. Temperatures thus far were in the mixture between 50s and 60s a lower 61, the east bay shoreline already antioch at 62 and for comparison sake most of the real estate is actually ahead of where it was this time from yesterday. The breakdown for you we cant take care of this morning, fog clouds by 11 00am were mostly sunny at 70 79 by mid afternoon, the temperatures are going to revisit the 80s in those inland valleys of looks like for today, but the real earnest warmup doesnt get here until the middle of the week well be talking all about that coming up in just a bit back to you. All right sounds good. Thank you dave a developing story that were following from overnight. Take a look at this video another fatal officer involved shooting leads to a fiery protests this time in atlanta. Youre taking a look at the that was burned down saturday where shark
Youre watching kron 4 morning news at 5. Morning and thanks for joining us on this monday to early there was 05 00am im darya folsom and im James Fletcher yeah, it is june 15th daryn already halfway through the month of june. Summers, almost over and now its you know, its been warm a couple times a lot hasnt felt like super hot summer when it was not super high is it that i was held last night you are now just me the warm evening and we are approaching some are now so temperatures are gonna start climbing especially into your final days of spring. And the first day of summer which is on saturday. So we are inching closer to it at this point you can see outside from berkeley skies are nice and clear definitely no cloud cover nor fog really across the bay area at the moment that does change later today, though cloud cover is going to descend into the bay area come the afternoon and winds are eventually going to be picking up so this common clear start to the morning that we have right no
Professor of history at the university of virginia where he focuses on international and diplomatic history. In particular the era of the world wars and the cold war in addition to the age of i eisenhower. He is author of the bitter road to freedom, which was a pultizer prize finalist. Following his remarks, ann compton will join dr. Hitchcock for a conversation on this great book. Ann was the first woman to cover the white house for Network Television and was on the air for 41 years with abc news. Her wrolongevity and impact are unparalleled. She spanned 10 president s of the United States. She anchored from the white house and she went to all 50 states and six continents. Ann was twauactually with presi george w. Bush on september 11th, 2011, and she was the only reporter allowed to stay on Board Air Force one with the president. She was on air force one on behalf of the entire press core. She is also a very good friend of the White House Historical association. She will moderate a n