Sugiharas compassion live ares on in the many thousands of descendants who would never have been born if not for his heroism. Resistance comes in many forms. In the case of sugihara, a simple piece of paper meant the difference between life and death. Today we also learned about and honored a group of japaneseamericans who refused to allow racist determination to define them. As president harry s. Truman later described these soldiers, they fought not only the enemy, but they fought prejudice, and they won. May we all be inspired to fight and stand up to hate whenever we see it. We tha our Guest Speaker will be taking questions later on in the program. We want to make sure that you help us along with keeping him busy with your questions. Were going to be using the youtube chat, so if you want to get a little practice now, put your Hometown And City hometown, city, state in there so i can give you a shoutout later on in the program. Im delighted to introduce our keynote Speaker And Conv
Our Guest Speaker will be taking questions later on in the program. We want to make sure that you help us along with keeping him busy with your questions. Were going to be using the youtube chat, so if you want to get a little practice now, put your Hometown And City hometown, city, state in there so i can give you a shoutout later on in the program. Im delighted to introduce our keynote Speaker And Conversation today. Civil Rights Attorney fred gray, preacher and activist, who continues to Practice Law in alabama today. He litigated several major civil rights cases in alabama, including some such as Browder Versus Gale that reached the supreme court. He represented Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, John Lewis, among many other civil rights luminaries. His success in the courtroom on civil rights is what makes up much of Todays Textbook for law students. I could go on. Lets hear from mr. Gray. Are you with us . Thank you very much. Terrific. Were happy to have you today. How are you doin
Preacher and activist, who continues to Practice Law in alabama today. He litigated several major civil rights cases in alabama, including some such as Browder Versus Gale that reached the supreme court. He represented Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, John Lewis, among many other civil rights luminaries. His success in the courtroom on civil rights is what makes up much of Todays Textbook for law students. I could go on. Lets hear from mr. Gray. Are you with us . Thank you very much. Terrific. Were happy to have you today. How are you doing . Im doing fine, and i want to thank the foundation and those of you who are responsible for having this program. I sat and listened some of the incidents from slavery time forward and just happy to be a part of your program here today. Thanks for the invitation. Absolutely. Were honored. We talked a few days ago. Ive had the honor to read your biography and seen some of your other interviews. I have my own questions. We will get to the audience ques
Our Guest Speaker will be taking questions later on in the program. We want to make sure that you help us along with keeping him busy with your questions. Were going to be using the youtube chat, so if you want to get a little practice now, put your Hometown And City hometown, city, state in there so i can give you a shoutout later on in the program. Im delighted to introduce our keynote Speaker And Conversation today. Civil Rights Attorney fred gray, preacher and activist, who continues to Practice Law in alabama today. He litigated several major civil rights cases in alabama, including some such as Browder Versus Gale that reached the supreme court. He represented Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, John Lewis, among many other civil rights luminaries. His success in the courtroom on civil rights is what makes up much of Todays Textbook for law students. I could go on. Lets hear from mr. Gray. Are you with us . Thank you very much. Terrific. Were happy to have you today. How are you doin
one of the things we find is how was he born? one of the things that the birth certificate indicates is that there was a midwife and a doctor. and the doctor also lived on auburn avenue. so what does that tell us about martin luther king? that this neighborhood was diverse. a doctor could live in this neighborhood, but there were also work class people living in this neighborhood. but also the fact there was a midwife at the birth, which indicates his family was somewhat privileged. at least there was a doctor also attending. but we can see from that, that martin luther king s early upbringing was kind of a mixture of the, i guess what i would call the striving for middle class status and the people who were predominant in this neighborhood, that is working class families. so we can also see from this document that at that time his father is a preacher. where? right here. we can see that there s another person in this household. and who is that? that is, at that time of