Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 Freedom Freedom. Freedom. Freedom Freedom Freedom we shall overcome those young people singing the anthem of the American Revolution of 63 were freedom riders. They were a part of the pattern developed in this revolution, a pattern fashioned by events more than events fashioned to a pattern. Along the way they not only involved the freedom ride but also the sitins, the direct Action Campaign. Borrowed the economic boycott, involved the use of federal troops, killed and has been killed. Were about to see them all, and as we see them we will see the growing participation of young whites in the battle. That participation enlarged the dimensions of the revolution physically and morally and they have taken part in increasing numbers, particularly in sitin demonstrations. It was a tactic employed by College Students in greensboro, North Carolina on february 1st, 1960 a group of freshmen from the agricultural and Technical College wrote a
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by that suspect were staffed predominantly by people of asian descent. all but one of the women killed were of asian descent. the suspect was apprehended and taken into custody late last night. he was charged today with eight counts of murder. law enforcement says he has admitted to the shootings. police say he told them he has a sex addiction and that s why he says he killed all those women working in those spas, because he wanted to eliminate his temptation for his addiction or something. police say in talking with the suspect, he gave them no indication that the killings were racially motivated, even if they did predominantly target asian women. a police captain in the cherokee county sheriff s department, cherokee county is where the first shooting took place. when he discussed the suspect s explanation for the shooting, he told reporters it was because the suspect was having a, quote, bad day yesterday. that s what he said. as if that was an explanation for why the young
dyson, u.s. jeff merkley and washington dc mayor bowser. this is one hour and 15 minutes. good morning, all. the ariel bowser and i am mayor of the best city in the world and i want to welcome the national action network to washington, d.c. i want to welcome you all to my hometown in your nation s capital and i want to thank and forgnize our reverend al his leadership, our reverend al for his vision and our reverend al for standing up for all of us . over the last several months, we have been reminded of the values we have to fight for. we have been reminded of reverend dr. martin luther king and what he stood for. how he told us that we had to look beyond ourselves, look beyond our own generation and make sure this was an america that was worthy of us all. in my own hometown that we have to fight on a local level, a state level and a federal level and that is why we are truly blessed that reverend al has called us together. it is not where we start but where we are growing a
soldiers. yes, prestige, and they want to distinguish themselves from who? from the conscripts, the bounty soldiers, those who did not join the beginning, who are only there because they have to be. they want to be distinguished from those guys. they want some sort of recognition that they got in from the beginning and have fought through the whole war and they want that element of procedure and recognition. but there is a catch. three quarters of the unit has to reenlist. again, playing on those bonds among soldiers. if you do not get all of those guys, you cannot just in dribs and drabs reenlist. ofng back to the winter 1863-64, what we see is that there might be a general reluctance to sign back up. think about it. if you have fought through the , and there arers lots and lots of men in the north who had not fought at all. say, not unreasonable to i ve done my part. somebody else can pick up a weapon and march into the next battle. in fact, i ve found some cases where yo