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Here is ines de la cuetara. Reporter good morning. After months of speculation, joe biden announcing his decision in a statement calling harris tough, smart and ready to lead. From rivals to running mates, joe biden and Kamala Harris set to hold their first event together in delaware today just hours after biden called the california senator over video chat and asked her to be his Vice President. The former Vice President previously saying trust would be key. One of the things that i learned is that no president in the 21st accepts dh 1 century c job all by 24e789themselves. Reporter the first black and asian woman on anybodys ti it wasnt sobiden fierce opponent blasting him at the first primary debate if opposing busing policies in the 1970s. Did you agree today that you were wrong to oppose busing in america . I did not oppose busing in america. And harris is now set to i cant those debate skills when she comes facetoface with Vice President pence at the Vice President ial debate in
So those temperatures above average and mid70s to mid80s still at 8 00. And this is just the. Epttg hter excessive h coming up. Joe biden and Kamala Harris scheduled to make their first appearance today. He selected her as his running mate. If elected, she would be the first woman Vice President , the first black Vice President and highest ranking Asian American in u. S. History. Here is ines de la cuetara. Reporter good morning. After months of speculation, former Vice President joe biden announcing his decision in a statement calling harris tough, smart and ready to lead. From rivals to running mates, joe biden and Kamala Harris set to hold their first event together in delaware today just hours after biden called the california senator over video chat and asked her to be his Vice President. The former Vice President previously saying trust would be key. One thing i learned is that no president in the 21st century can handle the job all by themselves. Reporter harris becoming the fir
All persons having business before the honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States, are admonished to draw near and give their attention. Landmark cases, cspans special history series, produced in partnership with the National Constitution center, exploring the human stories and constitutional dramas behind 12 historic Supreme Court decisions. Mr. Chief justice and may it please the court quite often, in many of our most famous decisions, are ones that the court took that were quite unpopular. Count the vote, count the vote. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of different people. Who help stick together because they believe in a rule of law. Good evening, and welcome to cspans landmark cases, tonight were going to learn about a case that you may not have heard about. Its the civil rights cases of 1883, consolidation of five cases brought to the Supreme Court to help define the 14th amendment. Tonight were
Professor taylor focuses on the 1954 u. S. Supreme Court Decision in brown v. Board of education, the integration of a high school in little rock, arkansas, and the 1960 sit in at a lunch counter in greensboro, North Carolina. Folks, welcome to this class in africanAmerican History. Were going Movement Origin our discussion of the Civil Rights Movement tonight. For those of you in this room who know who i am, but for others im Quintard Taylor and im a professor of history, American History at the university of washington. Ok, well get started. Last time last week we talked about world war ii and one of the things that i tried to emphasize was the fact that ordinary people were becoming much more militants or militant or aggressive in defending their civil rights. Im going to continue that theme tonight and, indeed, i think its even more so the case in the 1950s and 1960s that ordinary people became the engines of the Civil Rights Movement. We tend to think about the Civil Rights Moveme