And the nice thing is that it turns out to be that he is a much more interesting and complicated person. And i thought i knew him pretty well and i learned a lot of things. There was a lot that he didnt even know about himself. Tomorrow morning if youre watching this live at 9 00. He said so much and he meant them to be public. He may have been doing it privately but he knew they would come out. I think there is no other president able to communicate like he was, he was able to just lift the world. Sometimes very complex, but still very extraordinary. The at the front of the look is a picture of peter drummy. I took this picture so im very proud of this. He is looking closely at the John Quincy Adams diary. If you have not seen it or red it it is just magnificent. We know he has been a White House Reporter for 11 years and he is distressed with the attacks on the press that is happening right now. I fear the anger and disstress will entour long after the trump administration. How do we
Do you think that the boycott was necessary . To that ruling. Iesha . I think it was, because i think the boycott, while it wasnt an illegal action or might not have produced, you know, like might have not taken down separate versus equal, i think it definitely changed peoples perceptions of what was happening with separate versus equal. And i mean, a media campaign, it reverberated throughout the country. So i think you change peoples hearts and you change peoples minds. And i mean, maybe that is playing into the myth, but you definitely had allyship grow, probably in the north, which is probably what people down, like boycotting needed, or, yeah. Kind of to that extent, like you talked about how there were previous cases that had been, like, lost in courts about buses and desegregated, so i think the boycott was necessary again to help with the media push to finalize, like you said, like nail on the coffin, just because in the past there had been a couple failures. All right, yeah. A
Each week american artifacts takes viewers into Historic Sites across the country. We visit the newseum in washington, d. C. To visit the 1969 stonewall riots and how they served as a catalyst for the modern lgbtq Rights Movement. Welcome to the museum. Im patty rule the Vice President of exhibits and content here and we are here at the prolog, stonewall, rise up and stonewall was an event in 1969 and uprising at a gay bar in new york city that propelled forward that modern day lgbtq Rights Movement and this is how we tell the story that the americans used their First Amendment freedoms and the freedom of speech, the press, to advocate for change and to change society. Now well walk around the corner in this prologged area and look at some artifacts of two of the earliest lgbtq rights that rose up in the 1950s and 60s. Gay americans lived in fear and secrecy, gay people could be arrested for showing affection in public and police parks to reeft gay people who are seeking aing nations.
Award. Also with u. S. Today is detective brian downy, the president of the Gay Officers Action League goal of new york which is addressing the needs and issues and concerns of the Lgbt Community. Also on hand with us today is lieutenant brett parson, district native. How many years on the force . Almost 26. 26 years. And he manages, you should know, the departments lesbian gay, bisexual transgender liaison unit here in d. C. And mr. Prescott, a journalist, novelist, screen writer as well and columnist for salon. So thank you all for taking part in this today. Im looking forward to learning a lot and looking back with you through your eyes and perspectives on where we were 50 years ago. Its kind of hard to believe. David, i would like to start with you, if we can. What was new york like . What was america like, for gay, lesbians, transgender citizens before the stonewall riots . What was it like for the Lgbt Community . Well, its really counterintuitive because theres a common tendency
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