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First, we will hear introductory comments by a scholar. Mrs. Abernathy will offer remembrance s about the movement. Finally well open the floor to psh questions so we can have an engaging conversation with mrs. Abernathy. Let me identify miss brenda tindel of university of North Carolina charlotte who will introduce mrs. Abernathy. Native of charlotte earning her bachelor there and working on docket hit at Emory University on dissertation that explores lives of widows. Please join me in welcoming mrs. Tindel. [ applause ] greetings. It is indeed a privilege to provide opening remarks for this special session entitled remembering the career in civil rights, dialogue with mrs. Juanita jones abernathy. Id like to thank gregory nixon, john eskew and harris for inviting know take part in this ram. Finally id like to thank mrs. Abernathy for sharing time, wisdom and unique perspe ....
Test test test test test my father was a very, very successful farmer and dairyman. And he was never a poor man. And never worked for a white man. Owned his land and plantation, and there were three families who lived on our plantation who worked the land. But he was what i guess people call wealthy. We could never say that. And we were taught that if you ever bragged about anything you have i would disown you. Now, i grew up in a home my father built in 1923. 10 rooms. And an indoor bathroom in the country. He and his brothers never worked for anybody except themselves. And my grandfather came out of slavery, i guess, with enough land to give seven of his children 100 acres apiece. And they were all adjoining each other, except there was a white man who lived with a black woman and had 12 children whose plantation a joineddjoined one side of my fathers. They were not married, but they lived together. And they had 12 milano children mansville children. But my father had a dairy and he ....
Southern Historical Association annual meeting in atlanta. This is just under two hours. We are fortunate indeed he does miss abernathy returned yesterday from an extended stay in germany with the familys eldest daughter. Some of you know that she, as abe a, along with her mother, mrs. Abernathy then pregnant with their second daughter who miraculously survived the dynamite bombing of their home in montgomery in 1957. Along with tuskegee attorney fred gray, she is the last remaining leader from the montgomery bus boycott. On several occasions, i have been privileged to listen to mrs. Abernathy recall her experiences in the civil rights struggle and we are in for a treat. Our program is simple first we will hear some introductory comments or may scholar who will provide a biographical sketch of our subject and place her in historical context. Then mrs. Abernathy will offer her remembrances about the movement. Finally, we wi ....
So . We will never recover everything. Millions of dollars lost, hotel stays, metro fares, its gone. Sales taxes and local restaurants and small businesses, its gone. Food truck meals the federal government workers, you get the idea. We have a commonality that we are all affected by what is happening at the federal level, and especially the inaction is killing us. Federal workers who expect to be called back to work are promised back pay. Government contractors have not made such promises. For us, its the businesses that didnt hire people or let folks go. Certainly, those contracts that they were bidding on at the federal level, now they go through the process all over again. Fairfax county supervisor, Prince Georges County executive, baker, Montgomery County executive, ike laggot and vincent gray, they talked about the impact of the federal shutdown. The dollars lo ....
The u. S. , and the soviet union joined the occupied korea. They agreed to divide korea. Not northern korea what we call today to north korea was a very much communist influence. Southern influence, we now call south korea was a very different situation. With the assistance of the un they sponsored elections in south korea and south koreans elected a democratic government. North korea however wanted to unite under its terms so it sent insurgents into south korea to try to overthrow that government and they failed to do so. Then, on january 1950 the u. S. Secretary of state dean acheson had very significant air in a speech talking about the areas of influence and positions that were vital to the United States interest. Imagine japan and the philippines and omitted south korea. The North Koreans interpreted that as a statement the u. S. Would not go to war to defend the south kor ....