Brenna greer teaches a class, debunking myths around Rosa Parks. And a 1956 Bus Boycott. Professor greer explains that Rosa Parks was not the first american african american woman who refused to give a petite and then the boycott had Planning And President s. She also explains why simplified version of the history has become so widespread. So our Focus Today than is going to be the montgomery Bus Boycott, like i said, and thats what you read all your sources for, accept that Pain Article that gave you a larger focus. And you do that, were gonna go back to our discussion of Origin Points. Our favorite slide, which you are going to be so sick of. Representing the narrative art of the popular story of the civil Rights Movement. Were going back to our topic of Origin Points, again, with the objective of troubling it. One, putting those events in context but also troubling the idea of them as Origin Points. And last week we discussed brown versus board of education, we discuss the decision,
The south. Good afternoon, and im very excited and honored to be asked to prepare a presentation for this very important commemoration of 100th anniversary of the tulsa massacre. Im going to get started this afternoon just giving you some background on a perspective on the national Park Service Perspective towards Race And Reconciliation which we commemorate, which we interpret and which we research through national parks and programs. I always like to start off by giving a little background about the national Park Service. We are the federal agency that is authorized and given the responsibility to preserve the history and stories, national stories of the United States, we were founded in 1916, we currently have 12 regions. 423 national parks in our unit and in our stewardship right now there are more proposed to be added to the national system. Most of you know the large parks such as yellowstone or the grand canyon but most of our parks are actually in urban areas. Every person, a c
I always like to start off by giving a little background about the national Park Service. We are the federal agency that is authorized and given the responsibility to preserve the history and stories, national stories of the United States, we were founded in 1916, we currently have 12 regions. 423 national parks in our unit and in our stewardship right now there are more proposed to be added to the national system. Most of you know the large parks such as yellowstone or the grand canyon but most of our parks are actually in urban areas. Every person, a citizen of the United States, the average citizen is only 50 miles from a Park Service. So, yes, you know, probably about our grand national parks, but our urban parks such as douglas and martin luther king, jr. , center a lot of folks dont recognize those as being part of our national park system. We have two Community Assistant programs. These are programs where we assist communities, individuals to preserve and protect their own histo
Good afternoon, and im very excited and honored to be asked to prepare a presentation for this very important commemoration of 100th anniversary of the tulsa massacre. Im going to get started this afternoon just giving you some background on a perspective on the national Park Service Perspective towards Race And Reconciliation which we commemorate, which we interpret and which we research through national parks and programs. I always like to start off by giving a little background about the national Park Service. We are the federal agency that is authorized and given the responsibility to preserve the history and stories, national stories of the United States, we were founded in 1916, we currently have 12 regions. 423 national parks in our unit and in our stewardship right now there are more proposed to be added to the national system. Most of you know the large parks such as yellowstone or the grand canyon but most of our parks are actually in urban areas. Every person, a citizen of t
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