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Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 the convention in 1960 and there was a lady there named claire luper from i want to say Oklahoma City, and she spent all of her time talking about sitins that had been done by the naacp youth chapter in Oklahoma City and i remember going away from that saying, yeah, but no one knew about them other than claire luper and a couple other people. Thats again, that thing in history sometimes when you do something, when you have a context, that accords significance, rather than whether youve done it or not. I dont doubt that claire luper and her group had done sitins. But we know about the North Carolina people. They had an impact. We know about the friendship nine. I think they had an impact. Historically thats wha ....
University of North Carolina. Parents were my parents walther b gaither and fanny little gaither. Uh, great falls was my fathers home. My mother, fannie mae, was originally from anderson, South Carolina and my mom and dad met while they were students at friendship. College in rock hill, South Carolina. After they both graduated from friendship they moved permanently to great falls. Initially they were both schoolteachers. You could be a schoolteacher at that time with just a Junior College education. My dad did not stay in teaching because he discovered that what was listed on his contract as is per month payment for teaching was not the same as he this was thatand a time when the boards of education were all composed of white men. And so at the end of the year, my ....
And i called back in 15 seconds and said i made a dreadful mistake and said can i still interview for it . He said yeah. And sam garrison running the republican side of the staff, not yet fully unified. Some thought it never was. I went down, met with sam, had a good interview with him. Engaged to come in quite shortly thereafter, and reported for duty in december 1973. Tell us a little bit about first of all, about sam garrison. Give us the work nature of him . He was a devoted family man. I think from the south. From richmond. And he worked like a tiger. Slept in on sunday mornings, but that was about it. He and i had a good personal relationship. You were there before john dohr was named. Im sure i was there before bert jenner. Maybe it was before dohr. I remember showing up for work, and if i was the first staffer, Hilary Rodham was the second staffer, and i remember john dohr calling us into his office, bill, hillary, we have ....
Mississippi. Mississippi. This class is about one hour and 10 minutes. Prof. Shrock they were going to continue our walk of the Civil Rights Movement in the mid1960s. We talked talked about the revival of the sit in movement and how that galvanizes the movement. It gets it really moving again by the late 1950s. Collegein, it was students who get that movement rolling in 1960 and 1951. To the point where there are tens of thousands of people involved. We see that rolls over into freedom rights of 1961. We sewe see that rolls over into freedom rights of 1961. We see that continuing, culminating on the march on washington movement, we know thy were involved with the freedom rights at the end. We know they are wedded to nonviolent direct action, but action, buthem do what makes them do it . They will plan and execute one of the most ambitious civil rights call it a demonstration would not do it justice. One of the most incredib ....