Motivated. The first floor and the second floor is completely burned you can see the debris outside the San Francisco Armenian Community woke up to a suspected arson at their Church Thursday morning. Members of saint gregory the illuminator are pasta lecture coming through to be trying to save whatever made it through the fire on to on chairman of the churchs board of trustees believes they were targeted it has to be some kind of a hate crime involved in we had a similar situation of keys evie school. And we think this is somehow a continuation. No one was really a veteran the the lighting the vandalism was telling us exactly who they are on to be on is referring to this incident in late july where suspects vandalize the San Francisco Armenian School with graffiti conveying Union Messages we have no doubt in our minds that this is the continuation of that act. Even though theres nothing hourly pointing at that and the timing of it being right in the rapids in succession leads us to bel
Cspan 3, created by americas table Television Companies as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. More now on the Supreme Court case brought by jehovahs witnesses to overturn a West Virginia line the 1940s requiring students to salute the u. S. Flag. You are in for a treat. As the cofounder of the Jackson Center we are thrilled to have this opportunity to commemorate one of Justice Jacksons foremost opinions, if not his number one. West virginia versus barnett. We have some of the individual that we will be hearing to just recap to 2002, i believe, i tracked down murray and Lillian Barnett and had a chance down in charleston area, i didnt know as was happening, but all of a sudden this guy where the camcorder track two down and we had a chance to chat. And you are gracious enough to put up with me. Some of the interviews you just saw, in 2006 we had a chance to bring the barracks disturbs here. And together with our friends at cspan, filmed a presentatio
Interview with Joan Trumpauer mulholland. She recalls taking part in the 1961 freedom rides, attending tougaloo college, and serving at the Mississippi State penitentiary with other activists. This interview is part of a project on the Civil Rights Movement initiated by congress in 2009, conducted by the Smithsonian National museum of africanAmerican History and culture, the american full like american folklife center. Joan i was born in washington, d. C. And raised in arlington, virginia, basically a mile down the road in apartments, which at that point was the only place in Northern Virginia that would rent to jews. This was the early 1940s, folks had come from new york, looking for government jobs. They wanted out of the boarding houses and they can move to buckingham and that was about it. What did your dad do . Joan they had those government jobs. My father came from southwest iowa, during the depression. My folks met at the midnight shift at the post Office Building in the elevat
Nightline. Juneteenth, a sblags celebrati overcoming is. Emmett tills supposed crime, whistling at a white woman. A legacy that surviving members of his family are still carrying forward, and we warn youthe js e it says something profound that in the middle of the protest for george floyd, there are People Holding signs, pointing to an injustice from 1955. The lynching of emmett till is a wound that runs deep and long. The scar of his death at the hands of white executioners changed the course of the Civil Rights Movement, and it happened in mississippi. Difficult to think of any human being, and especially my flesh and blood suffering in that manner. She was just a child and remembers the moment like that was yesterday. 14 year old emmett till was her cousin. Because he was black, he was tortured in a barn, his body dumped in the river, no justice was ever served. Last fall, she traveled here with her family to replace a plaque that marks the river bank where his body had benjamin fou
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