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heritage month. this is about 90 minutes. good afternoon, and welcome back. this is our next panel in the afternoon. organizing across the boundaries, strategies and coalitions in the struggle for the civil rights and social justice. before we get started i just wanted to explain a little bit about the genesis of this panel or this how it came about like a lot of great ideas, i came across this book doing a search in the catalog. and this is many months ago we were kind of thinking about what do we want to do. there are so many books that come out on if civil rights movement every year. we thought let s focus on some that are kind of different and interesting that kind of change how we think about the movement, kind of up in our understanding of it. when we came across this one. it has a great cover art. we loved how she was looking at these groups in an area we don t often think about and how these two groups came together in their struggles. so dr. rice is going ....
the symposium to mark national heritage month. it s about half an hour. good afternoon, and welcome back. this is our next panel in the afternoon session of this symposium organizing across the boundaries, strategies and coalitions and the struggle for the civil rights and social justice. before we get started, i just wanted to explain a little bit about the genesis of this panel or whole symposium and how it came about. like a lot of great ideas that come about the library, came across this book just doing a search in the catalog, and this is many months ago. we were kind of thinking about what do we want to do for this public program series, and there s so many books that come out on the civil rights movement every year. we thought, well, let s focus on some that are kind of different and interesting that kind of change how we think about the movement, kind of upend our understanding of it, and so when we came across this one by lorne ariza we got excited, not just ....
about the civil rights movement, california, and how these two groups came together in their struggles. so the doctor will be our first speaker. she earned her phd from the university of california at berkeley, and she s now an associate professor of history at denisson university in granville, ohio. she s taught there since 2007. this is her first book, to march for others, the black freedom struggle and the united farm workers and it was published just last year by the university of pennsylvania press. and our next speaker after her will be bill x. jennings who grew up in san diego, and he was just telling us this story earlier today which i thought was great which was his pe coach in middle school was tommy smith, and he had this wonderful inspiring moment when he saw him on tv at the 196 olympics after he had won the gold medal raising his fist up in the air, and that kind of inspired him to become an activist. also in 1968, he moved to oakland, and he joined the ....
it s an hour and 20 minutes. thank you so much, everybody. we ll move on to our first panel discussion. i should say my name is steve and i m the writer and editor here at the library of congress and we re presenting this symposium entitled organizing across the bound rice in the struggle for civil rights and justice. this first panel presentation is called when poor people marched on washington taerks , the 68 in black and brown. i will introduce the speakers briefly and then they can come up and begin the discussion. so the first person i ll introduce is gordon mantler, who s an assistant professor at george washington university specializing in the history and rhetoric of 20th century social justice movements and the african-american and latino experience of the united states as well as an oral history and history of film. his first book and focus of his library presentation is power to the poor, black-brown coalition and the fight for economic justice 1960 to 197 ....
where it is women that are the most prominent and focusing on i mean, i recall martha grass who is a native american or mother of 11 children in oklahoma. plays a prominent role in the solidarity day rally, and speaking about, you know, the challenges that she faces as a mom in the middle of the country and that poverty, you know, impacted women and children more than anybody else, right? and so in a lot of ways the campaign highlighted the it was it provided a space for women who did not see themselves as exactly part of the feminist movement which was unfairly or not seen as white and middle class so you see a lot of issues on display that african-american and chicano women, native american women with working class and others are able to stress in this space of resurrection city and hawthorne school here in the capital. how does that jive with your recollection? no, absolutely. i remember, you know, the leader and organizer of poor working plants in chicano, ....