cities tour along with cox communications looks for the literary life of tempe, arizona. learn about man s relationship with wildfires and an effort to change the narrative and its role in the environment with stephen pine. years, this country after the great fires of 1910 which trauma sties which traumatized u.s. forest service, tried to take back the landscape. in the last 50 years, it s half the history of our engagement. we tried to put back good fire and that has been difficult. here from brooks simpson about the challenges of writing history. i m the person that tells the story and i will do it as best i can and as honestly as i can, as balanced as i can but i get to do something fundamentally creative and say this is what i think happened. onon american history to be c-span3, here about the lives of u.s. senators very goldwater and carl hayden through their collections of personal and political papers. at carlyou look hayden s career, he was really responsible fo
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 to be
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 becaus
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 plaque