A lot of men died, but strategically, it was a victory. I characterize this entire campaign is being the most successful of this conflict thus far. Its success is unprecedented. We are seeing americans come to grips with largescale the enemies units. Is is going to be a pattern of the war . It seems evident that the leadership in hanoi has sent down to South Vietnam regular forces. How many more, we do not know. It was a bitter and valuable experience. It taught us the value of mobility in fighting a guerrilla war. It has also pointed out the brutal fact that hanoi intends to commit a filled army to vietnam. Communists are massing in South Vietnam, and so are we. They feel we are divided. There impressed by student demonstrations. In hanoi, a student is a rare and honored member of society. The enemy knows he cannot defeat us in the field, but by killing americans, he hopes to demoralize us at home. That is what happened to france in 1954. Our armed forces are willing to take necessary
Next, author Danielle Mcguire discusses the lives of women during the civil rights movement, including rosa parks. This december marks the 60th anniversary of rosa parks refusal to give up her seat. The author looks beyond the wellknown incident and examines racial and Sexual Violence experienced by africanamerican women in the segregated south. And she credits women for who protested these assaults for fueling the civil rights movement. The Georgia Center for books hosted this event in 2010. It is a little over one hour. Good evening, everyone. Im bill star, executive director of the Georgia Center for the book. We are the host for this evenings program. We welcome all of you. Rosa parks is one of the truly iconic figures of the civil rights movement. We know her as the older, quiet woman whose tired feet led her to defy segregation on montgomery, alabamas buses back in 1955. Her courageous, spontaneous refusal to give up her seat to a white man sparked the bus boycott, which gave bir
That is what we have been told up till now. But do we really know rosa parks . The answer according to our guest this evening is very definitely, no. We welcome to the center for the book tonight, dr. Danielle mcguire, assistant professor of history at Wayne State University in detroit. Her new book is at the dark end of the street black women, rape, and resistance. A new history of the Civil Rights Movement from rosa parks through the rise of black power. As her subtitle suggests, the book does not not merely shed new light on rosa parks and the beginnings of the Civil Rights Movement, it offers us nothing less than a new way of approaching an understanding both the womens history and the underpinnings of the Civil Rights Movement. It is a scholarly yet riveting narrative that traces a sordid history of Sexual Violence directed against black women in the jim crow era and illuminates how the littleknown actions of rosa parks long before that bus boycott helped create the impetus for Ci
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