That immediately it became all of these counter activities, efforts not only to not move forward but to push us backwards. I thought that resistance in itself was so disturbing because it confused the picture, and really the action was more like this was about bussing and not about school, that it was not about openness, but it was about trying to get new privilege to people who didnt deserve it. That i thought was very detrimental, not just to the children and parents who were involved but i think to the society. Now, you enjoyed an integrated education. Yes. So in that sense you enjoyed what brown might have meant. Thats right, and thats what i thought. I said, now, because and i have until i was an adult i had never had a negro teacher, and so my teachers were interested in me, the parents, boys and girls all shared things together, and i thought, well, this is what school ought to be like, and i thought at last we had it. Well, the decision didnt have an effect on your education, b
That immediately it became all of these counter activities, efforts not only to not move forward but to push us backwards. I thought that resistance in itself was so disturbing because it confused the picture, and really the action was more like this was about bussing and not about school, that it was not about openness, but it was about trying to get new privilege to people who didnt deserve it. That i thought was very detrimental, not just to the children and parents who were involved but i think to the society. Now, you enjoyed an integrated education. Yes. So in that sense you enjoyed what brown might have meant. Thats right, and thats what i thought. I said, now, because and i have until i was an adult i had never had a negro teacher, and so my teachers were interested in me, the parents, boys and girls all shared things together, and i thought, well, this is what school ought to be like, and i thought at last we had it. Well, the decision didnt have an effect on your education, b
And you could see he brought out the best of everybody. Good evening, im julie haener. And im frank somerville. We first told you about this shooting last night. We now know the victim was a teenager, a student at hayward high school. Amber . Reporter frank. The 16yearold was a junior. Tonight they tell an emotional vigil at the site where he was killed. Family and friends are trying to come to terms with the loss of lamar murphy. Describing him as cool and funny with a loving smile. He dreamed of going to college. He wanted to be a nurse. He does good in school. He doesnt deserve this. Reporter his father still saying he has no idea why someone would want to hurt lamar. He says his son was non violent, nonconfrontational, and was not involved with gangs. He was a good kid. He was a great kid. Just a great kid. Very respectful. Reporter lamars life was cut short suddenly monday night around 6 45. His father says he was walking home from a Neighborhood Store when he was shot. Alameda co
Weekend on cspan3. To join the conversation like us on facebook. Cspan3s American History tv, an interview with dorothy height, who served as president of the National Council of negro women from 1957 to 1998. Recorded in 2003, this is from the explorations in black leadership oral history collection, a project codirected by university of virginia professors Phyllis Leffler and julian bond. We are currently airing five of the interviews with prominent africanamerican women. She discusses wednesdays in mississippi, a group ecoorganized in the 1960s, and her work alongside Martin Luther king jr. On the 1963 march on washington. She went on to receive both the president ial medal of freedom and the congressional gold medal. She died in 2010. This is about an hour and a half. Welcome to explorations of black leadership. Thank you for doing this. I want to begin with questions about brown versus board of education. When you first heard the Supreme Court had eliminated segregation in schools
Unaccompanied children. Rather than see the legislation defeated, Speaker Boehner pulled and told house members to forget about starting their 5week summer recess, bain are boehnes edict created chaos. I am hopeful by late this afternoon well be able to notify the time of it. The house will be in order. Madame speaker, i yield back. Lou new Leadership Team having a very tough inaugural. Passage of the legislation was never certain, but tea party senior ted cruz reportedly played a large role in helping to derail the bill, he was the House Republicans to vote against it. This all began in the summer of 2012, when the president unilaterally raanaly ran amneso 800,000 people who came here at children, w we will not solve ts humanitarian crisis unless and until we end president obamas amnesty. Lou House Republicans will try again tomorrow, partly because g. O. P. Leaders are concerned about the political fallout of was not doing anything, that is president obamas favorite attack line, one