Where it is women that are the most prominent and focusing on i mean, i recall martha grass who is a native american or mother of 11 children in oklahoma. Plays a prominent role in the solidarity day rally, and speaking about, you know, the challenges that she faces as a mom in the middle of the country and that poverty, you know, impacted women and children more than anybody else, right . And so in a lot of ways the campaign highlighted the it was it provided a space for women who did not see themselves as exactly part of the feminist movement which was unfairly or not seen as white and middle class so you see a lot of issues on display that africanamerican and chicano women, native american women with working class and others are able to stress in this space of resurrection city and Hawthorne School here in the capital. How does that jive with your recollection . No, absolutely. I remember, you know, the leader and organizer of poor working plants in chicano, working Rights Organizat
Hear from panelists on how people from different races Work Together and why the movement was largely remembered as being dominated by africanamericans. This event was part of a symposium to Mark National hispanic heritage month. Its an hour and 20 minutes. Thank you so much, everybody, were going to move on to our first panel discussion. We are presenting this symposium, called organizing across the boundariries in the struggle for civil rights and justice. When poor people marched on washington, the 68 campaign in black and brown. I will introduce the speakers briefly and then they can come up and begin the discussion. So the first person ill introduce is Gordon Mantler, whos an assistant professor at George Washington university specializing in the history and rhetoric of 20th century social Justice Movements and the africanamerican and Latino History of the United States as well as an oral history and history of film. His first book and focus of his Library Presentation is power to
Thank you so much, everybody, were going to move on to our first panel discussion. We are presenting this symposium, called organizing across the boundariries in the struggle for civil rights and justice. When poor people marched on washington, the 68 campaign in black and brown. I will introduce the speakers briefly and then they can come up and begin the discussion. So the first person ill introduce is Gordon Mantler, whos an assistant professor at George Washington university specializing in the history and rhetoric of 20th century social Justice Movements and the africanamerican and Latino History of the United States as well as an oral history and history of film. His first book and focus of his Library Presentation is power to the poor and the fight for Economic Justice 1960 to 1974 and it was published in 2013 in the inaugural volume in the politics and power series of the North Carolina press. Were happy to have him here and hes the recipient of many awards. So were very happy
Its an hour and 20 minutes. Thank you so much, everybody. Well move on to our first panel discussion. I should say my name is steve and im the writer and editor here at the library of congress and were presenting this symposium entitled organizing across the bound rice in the struggle for civil rights and justice. This first Panel Presentation is called when poor people marched on washington taerks , the 68 in black and brown. I will introduce the speakers briefly and then they can come up and begin the discussion. So the first person ill introduce is Gordon Mantler, whos an assistant professor at George Washington university specializing in the history and rhetoric of 20th century social Justice Movements and the africanamerican and latino experience of the United States as well as an oral history and history of film. His first book and focus of his Library Presentation is power to the poor, blackbrown coalition and the fight for Economic Justice 1960 to 1974 and it was published in 2
From the va scandal and this troubling crisis. Pressure mounts, and continues to do so on Eric Shinseki to step down. It was the undersecretary who resigned, however, critics called him a scapegoat, saying he was due to retire soon anyway. Meantime, in an interview this morning, white house chief of staff talked about president obamas reaction to all of this. The president is madder than hell. And ive got the cards to prove it. Were digging into this to find out if this is a series of isolated cases or whether this is a systemic issue that we need to address with wholesale reform. Were not going to stop making this better, because thats exactly what our veterans deserve. But mcdonough defended shinseki saying, quote, he will continue to work these issues until they are fixed. And reaction from an iraq and afghanistan veteran. Should we ask for shinsekis resignation, and i dont jump on that bandwagon. This has gone from an incompetent and backlog to something criminal. I think it is tim