And i think bennett is a good place to be. I think bennett can become a haven for at least 900 little girls, to make them into big women. Thats what i work to do. And i dont plan to be here forever, to have another career, but its certainly a good thing to do on the days that i am here. Four africanamerican students sat down at a segregated woolworths lunch counter in greensboro, North Carolina. Over the next hour, American History tv and cspans washing at thernal, look back sit ins and protest during that time. Our guest joining us live is traci parker, author and university of massachusetts amherst professor. That is live in a moment here on cspan 3. At 1960 look at events in when we walked into the store, we wanted to prove that we were customers. And made a notebook sure to get receipts. We mulled around in the store, just trying to get some fix on where we work and what we were about to do. Anxiety having some would not get to hire me. I felt my temperature increase. I could feel
Sit in protests along with archival footage. That begins right now. And we feel also that one of the great pillars of american democracy is that we have the right to protest for our rights. We will do it in an orderly fashion. This is a nonviolent protest. We are depending on moral and spiritual forces using the method of passive resistance. From the bus boycott in montgomery, alabama until february 1, 1960, virtually Nothing Happened in the arena of civil rights. I mean, it was dead, absolutely dead. Even Martin Luther king said that. In 1960, things did change dramatically in greensboro. It is the origin of all of those events that occur subsequent to february 1, 1960, and i happened to be there. Mcneil happened to be there, and so did richmond and blair. When you hear a railroad, the train is coming from far away and it is coming closer and you become increasingly aware of the track that the train is rolling on. And that track is what divides white from black. That is what separates
Messages and tweets. University of massachusetts amherst assistant professor traci parker joins us for discussion on the lunch counter sit ins of 1960. Who were the greensboro four and why did they decide to sit down at that lunch counter in 1960 . They work for freshman a t were four freshman at and they had been thinking about racial injustices and how to integrate and how to push the movement along for some time. It was not until Joseph Mcneil is returning to school after when hes break in 1959 is refused a meal at a greyhound train terminal and he is just trying to buy a hot dog. And gets back to campus and he is emboldened. He says enough is enough. So him and this for friends decide they are going to target the woolworths. Aggregate eating facilities in greensboro, North Carolina. I find interesting is why it woolworths, woolworths was a five and dime that many people of a certain age probably still remember. It was a chain Discount Department store. Recognizable because it is a
His most recent one is on netflix and each time you get that pedigree you know you hit the ball hard its immigrant and its available to stream on netflix like you dont have the time right now to watch anything out there folks so do this and he also has a podcast called back to school with maz jobrani which is available on apple pod casts and spotify the estimable mr joe broadening our you much. Good dennis thanks for having him in how you do it. Im groovy man and i like the fact im always intrigued when i see people doing everybodys pulling or in the fight against coven 19 and when you do stand up at home do you stand up i guess thats a question im so used to standing up you have to stand up at home. You know i was at 1st i was a little hesitant to even try it and i got approached by some people to google and they said listen well do a show and well ask people to donate money and google will match it so find a charity that you like to lose a charity id like to solicit do it and i will
A little hesitant to even try it and i got approached by some people to google and they said listen well do a show and well ask people to donate money and google will match it so find a charity that you like salute charity id like to solicit do it and i will tell you man it was a trip because you know its comedians were used to performing in front of a Live Audience in trying to read whats on their mind how they do it what are they thinking well right off the bat i said i dont need to worry i dont need to think about what youre thinking because you can comment and design chat on the side if you hate it or you love it theyre there commenting right there you can see their numbers going up and down when people leave the chat and it was a trip in and i did i stood up and i took a mike that doesnt work my daughter has a karaoke mike that we bought and when i just hold the mike to pretend and pretend like and it is amazing dude its amazing it really has been very cathartic for me to do stand