To the august 1963 march on washington. The report ends with president kennedys june 11, 1963 appeal for civil rights legislation and statements by several u. S. Senators arguing for and against it. We have seen the revolution began in many ways. And the course of this following has many tributaries. Now we are concerned with its effects, which we said are not uniform. One of the difficult fights but one in which the negro has scored impressive gains is in shattering what reverend king has fault the appalling apathy of the good people. Birmingham helped shatter that apathy. Sometime or other, we are going to have to stand and be on the receiving end of a fire hose. Leaders of all three states decided they must do something, not to say something. Soon, many white clergymen were stepping from behind their pulpits and joining the ranks of pickets. Until then, Church Action have been limited to a few fronts. Among them, new orleans. It was three years ago that desegregation came to the dee
Birmingham helped shatter that apathy. Sometime or other, we are going to have to stand and be on the receiving end of a fire hose. Leaders of all three states decided they must do something, not to say something. Soon, many white clergymen were stepping from behind their pulpits and joining the ranks of pickets. Until then, Church Action have been limited to a few fronts. Among them, new orleans. It was three years ago that desegregation came to the deep south. It happened in new orleans. The battle developed within the White Community, those who saw desegregation as an eventuality with which to reach an accommodation, personified by most members of the new Orleans School board. On the other side, those who shouted never, many of them members of the rural dominated state legislature. For a time, the second force prevailed largely because the city leadership shrank from the fight. As frequently happens in leadership vacuums, even in the streets of a city so sophisticated as this one, v
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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
Telling people to wake up. After a major surge, governor gavin newsom saidincrease over two weeks. The icu increase dropped from 39 to 37 . The governor spoke from diamond puts in stockton. The area targeted as a new hot spot where rates are well above the state average. 10. 7 in french and stanislaus. Reporter the governor said e spread is disprofessionally impacting essential workers and the latino community. Part of the message delivered in spanish. The state is allocating 52 million of federal funding to the Central Valley to help with the surge. To improve our isolation protocols, our quarantine protocols. Our testing protocols, and to enhance our healthcare workers. Despite some signs of progress, a grim statistic continues to go the wrong way. The average number of people dying from the virus is up from 91 last week. Please lets wake up to that reality. There are now 37 counties on the states watch list. Santa cruz was just added. Those counties make up 93 of the states populati