Visit to rapid city, we take you to the south dakota air and space museum and hear about the role of Ellsworth Air force base during the cold war. Welcome to the south dakota air and space museum. People think of south dakota, they dont always think about a great aviation state but we have a huge Aviation Heritage in the state. Over the years, we have played a huge part in our national defense. Ellsworth air force base began in world war ii. Its purpose in world war ii was to train bomber crews specifically b17 crew. If you think about it, if you are going to learn to navigate a world war ii bomber over long distances and expenses of isritory, south dakota really a great place to put the base. That was the beginning of Ellsworth Air force base. The connection from world war ii to the cold war is really represented in our museum. The 44th bomb group was trained here at Ellsworth Air force base. When the cold war came around, the bomb group became the 44th missile wing which was commande
They started looking for a place for the festival. They couldnt find a place in woodstock that was large enough. They found a property that might have worked, down the road from woodstock, but that fell through. Out of desperation, they found an Industrial Park near middletown, new york. It was fairly flat. Kind of uninteresting land, but it had Good Transportation access. They started building, started advertising. They built the stage. They had artists creating art installations and everything was going smoothly until the locals caught wind of what they were doing and it wasnt going to be a 50,000 person folk festival after all, what they were promised. Jimi hendrix had been booked, and a number of nonfolk bands were booked, prominently. The town basically rewrote its laws to outlaw the festival. And that left Woodstock Ventures with about four weeks to find another location. That is when they came in contact with max. Max yasgur, the dairy farmer in bethel. About 90 miles northwest
And convention at the coliseum. They take the major credit for the mob actions, takeovers on college and University Campuses throughout the nation. This is the revolutionary conference for a front against socalled fascism. Bringing together students for a socalled democratic society. The black panthers and other working classes at the Oakland California auditorium july 18 through the 20th 1969. The underlining purpose of the meeting was to further emphasis on exploiting to advance communism. He said youth will decide the entire struggle. The next voices exposed the nature of the conference and are represented to the black panthers, young patriots, and the communist party who were featured on the program. The synchronized film was not obtainable for this program. This is important to americans is society. They are identified later in the film. Representing the black panthers ellipsis. Notified capitalism with socialistic programs. Imperialism. Need a understanding of the principles so w
Of the museum of africanAmerican History. They should have called you the founding director. Her first book, a fragile freedom, africanamerican women d emancipation in the an antebellum city. Published by yale. An understudy topic up until that point. The perfect person to taken to challenge to recover the story of ona judge. Lets give erika a big round of applause. [applause] good evening, everyone. I would like to thank steve and emily for helping me with arrangements to arrive here. It has been a very, very busy week. This book just came out on tuesday of last week. And so as doug said, my first book was published with Yale University press and this book is more of a sort of crossover trade book for a larger more general audience. So it is a very different experience. Been rewarding. Im a little tired. Forgive me if my voice goes in and out. Ive been talking more than usual. And to be where the story of ona judges life began. What i will do tonight is talk a little bit about i will
1619, ship over arrived carrying stolen African People taken from angola. Here, they were sold and sold again. The first enslaved African People who were not granted the same freedoms that would be given to white landowning they joined the thousands of virginias first people, the members of the Virginian Indian tribes who would also wait centuries to have the same freedoms. These commemorations of the First Representative Assembly in the free world, we have to remember who it included and who did not. Virginia,e paradox of of america, of our representative democracy. A full accounting demands that we confront and discuss those aspects of our history. It demands that we look not just in time for hundred years in the past, but at how our commonwealth and country of all dover the course of those four centuries. Over they evolved course of those four centuries. Joining us now is cassandra newbyalexander. She teaches at norfolk state university. We appreciate you being with us here on cspan