Coordinating committee and taking part in the 1963 march on washington. Mister courtland also served in the second terri general of 1974 six pan african congress. I was born in new york in harlem in 1941 and my mother moved me and my sister to the west indies to trinidad where my grandmother and our family lived. Four years later, 1945, i stayed in trinidad from 1945 to 1952 and then i came back to new york after my grandmother died in 1952 and lived in harlem for a couple of years and then moved to the bronx. I intended Catholic School, st. Helenas and then, you know, went from well actually Grammar School which was actually an interesting thing because it was african all African American nuns and then i went to st. Helenas and then went to Howard University. My mother sent me to Catholic School because, you know, at that point it cost a ten dollars a month, which was, you know, serious money in 1952 and 1954, but also she wanted to make sure that i had the best education that she cou
Visits to college classrooms, museums, and historic places. Exploring our nations past every weekend on cspan3. I am the director of the George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum here on the campus of George Washington university in the heart of washington, d. C. Four freedomss exhibition celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Norman Rockwell museum, the 75th dday, and of putting on the rose the great images Norman Rockwell painted the created a National Concept of the four freedoms that made visible, tangible, and real the ideological concepts president roosevelt expressed in the state of the Union Address in 1941. [newsreel video] pres. Roosevelt the first is freedom of speech and expression anywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship god in his own way everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want, which translated into world terms means economic , understandings which will nation, ar every healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants
Decision of the United States Supreme Court batting segregation in public transportation. My street mate on that Greyhound Bus you must understand in 1961 black people and white people could be seated together. When you get out of washington to travel to virginia to North Carolina, alabama, mississippi, wewere on our way to new orleans. So we didnt have any problems for the most part until we got to rockville. And a little place in charlotte North Carolina, it was a sizable city, a young africanamerican man attempted to get a shoeshine in a socalled white barbershop that was in a socalled white waiting room. He was arrested and taken to jail. The next day the jury dismissed the charges against him but my seatmate and two of us arrived at the Greyhound Bus station in South Carolina and a group of white men met us in the doorway and started beating us and left us lying in a pool of blood and the local officials came up and wanted to know whether we wanted to press charges andwe said no ,
Speech from texas across the florida up to Southern Maryland, we couldnt use a public toilet, we couldnt room in holiday inn, we couldnt buy ice cream at howard johnsons. They said our money was counterfeited. Against those odds, marion volunteered to be an unarmed soldier in the army for justice. He was not killed, but there are the wounds every soldier is a wounded soldier. When the war was over, the unarmed soldier had won the war. Today the falcons can play the panthers. He helped to make the south investment worthy and attractive. [inaudible] state legislators and the congress. No southern governor or senator has his or her name on that new south, marion was one of the architects of the new south and the new america. The little rock nine led by ernie green, the greensboro four [inaudible] led by martin king. Ralph abernathy, fred shuttles worth, Julius Hobson, hilda mason [inaudible] stokely carmichael, barr nerd Lafayette Bernard lafayette, walter [inaudible] wyatt t. Walker, sut
Prepared what he was going to say. After i listened i said christopher i dont need to say anything but just say what you just told me and it will be the greatest tribute that you could ever give to your father. Brothers and sisters i want you to stand on your feet and receive Marion Christopher barry who, in turn after he speaks will introduce the honorable minister. Good morning. Good morning. First off, i want to give honor to god. He is the planner and doer of all things. Through his plan there is no imperfections and no faults and no mistakes. I want to thank the community. I want to thank everybody that has been praying for our family everybody that has lifted us up in prayer. I can truly feel the prayers and it has helped me through this hard time. It has empowered me. I feel the embracement. These past few days have been a wonderful tribute. Everything has been appropriate. Everything has been fitting. I want to thank personally my step mother. Without her her vision none of thi