Ship saratoga. September 11, 1814. Battle of plattsburgh in cumberland bay. You know, this is a battle that is lost to American History. It is the first 100th anniversary, it was known by everyone. This was a huge celebration. People knew how important the battle of plattsburgh was. But in the meantime, things have changed. That poem became the national anthem. Baltimore is in the center of a populated area. And people have been taught what took place there and what took place there was very important. But it was a diversion. The real battle was up here. You see, if the british can take plattsburgh, there is no troops between here and washington, d. C. There is no american the cavalry is not coming. The and with plattsburgh gone, they can sweep down the lake, they can go on to lake george, and they can go on to the hudson and split the United States in half. In the meantime, the treaty of gent talks are on. And this is a bargaining chip. If you can take plattsburgh, and you can redraw
The challenges faced by single mothers. This class is about an hour and 45 minutes. So, today were talking about the war on poverty, and the urban crisis in the late 1960s in the United States. And were looking at the ways in which the black Freedom Movement raised the issues of poverty, and of racial disadvantage. Really to a level of national attention, and National Action that we havent really seen at any time since. So i want to start just by well, first i should lead you through the outline quickly. Well talk about the ways in which americans at the time thought about black poverty. How did they interpret it. What causes did they think about. And then, what solutions, therefore, did they turn to. So well talk about designing a war on poverty. The choices that the federal government made when the Johnson Administration announced that it was going to wage a war on poverty. And then well talk a little bit about the socalled riots that occurred each summer in the late 1960s in african
Businesses got me down. You know what i did . I got on the plane, came home. I did not even have a toothbrush. I have a few Little Things here. I did not even have my pills, my antihistamine bills pills. In such a you get rush question mark i was worn damnighting over that report. You should have taken another hour to get your clothes. They save the bullet is the same one that hit finally. Just a lot of steps there. We had the evidence. We cross examined of them. I did read the record. So, i dont know. Only fellow there who suggested any change whatsoever. Its business always scared me. I like to put my own views to them. We got you a pretty good report. What difference does it make which bullet. Connolly . It dont make much difference. Commission believes the same bullet that hit kennedy hit connally. Well, i dont believe it. I dont either. So, i could not sign it. I am not point to approve of that. There is made them say a split in the commission, that part of them believed that wasn
Something on monument avenue that does not reflect that segregationist past. The result was this arthur ashe statue, which is pretty big. Not as big as jeff davis, but its pretty big. Its pretty large. So moving away from virginia, though, im sort of curious yeah, matt . In doing a paper, i actually came across an article that was in the southern southeastern geographer, and the article explored the symbolic meaning of lee to the city. This is about richmond. It is now mostly africanamerican. And the argument was that, i guess they had redone the canal area. Theres this big mural of robert e. Lee there. And its like the africanamerican population demanded that it be taken down. And so it does seem like there is a real expression of political power in that city now. Well, its an interesting place. It does come up. If you go, i also highly recommend the museum of the confederacy. Its a fascinating place in its own right. Its bookstore is fascinating. It is not you might imagine being up
He gave a speech which i wont quote at length. But wallaces speech was very, very clear. The country should, quote, look to the south, end quote, as the true defender, quote, of the rights of states and individuals. Wallace also said that the country was on the brink of civil warfare. That also is a quote. And told his colleagues in the senate that if they passed a public accommodations bill, mandating that public accommodations be open, regardless of color, this is wallace, quote, you should make preparations to withdraw all our troops from berlin, vietnam, and the rest of the world, because they need to police america. Of course, we talked about the back drop. The civil war centennial occurred with the back drop of the Civil Rights Movement. And of the very violent repression that was sort of that africanamerican activists in the south. The freedom summer of 1964 when the three were murdered in mississippi, that is sort of just in the offing. The civil war centennial. If we then ask