Myths about rosa parks and the montgomery bus boycott. She was not the first africanamerican woman who trooe fused to give her seat. Why this version has become so widespread. So our focus today then is going to be the montgomery bus boycott. That is and what you read your sources for except the payne article that gave you a larger focus and to do that well go back to the discussion of origin point. Our favorite slide which youre going to be so sick of. Representing the narrative arc of the popular story of the Civil Rights Movement. And were going back to our topic of origin points, again with the objective of troubling it. One, putting those events in context but also troubling the idea of them as origin points. And last week we discussed brown versus board of education, we discussed the decision, response, the impact but also the legacy. And i want to talk more about the legacy as we go forward but were not going to do that today. And then on tuesday, we spent time talking about the
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Know. As is the way with these things the former Prime Minister there flipping between languages there depending upon the language in which hes being asked the relevant questions by the assembled media outside the courthouse there in kuala lumpur the main takeaway point however is a reiteration of the way that he does plan to appeal against the verdict and the sentences were not quite sure whats going to happen to him in the next couple of weeks or couple of months even perhaps because the reality is there are more cases against him to be addressed plus on top of that his wife is just about start going through a process the best guess estimate says that that process will stand alone and it will take 2 years well stay with these latest live pictures. As we think is just lapsing back into english all this positive we believe. You know in a sense we believe that. We have a strong case. But of course we have to convince the judges and we would do our best. To chevy would continue to lead t
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1 15. So our focus today then is going to be the montgomery bus boycott. Like i said. Thats what you read all of your sources for, except the payne article which gave you a larger focus. To do that. We are going to go back to our discussion of origin points, right . Our favorite slide which you are going to be so sick of, right, representing the narrative arc of the popular story of the Civil Rights Movement. And we are going back to our topic of origin points again with the objective of troubling it. One, putting those events in context, but also troubling the idea of them as arge points. Last week, we discussed brown versus board of education. We discussed the decision, response, the impact, but also the legacy. And i want to talk more about the legacy as we go forward. But we are to the going do that today. Then on tuesday, we spent time talking about the emmett till case, right . And the lynching of emmett till in august of 19 a 5. We used a mix of primary and secondary sources to