For a longer piece. It is an extraordinary watershed, historical moment. I think we are living through a third american reconstruction effort to reconstruct democracy so that it is multiracial, multicultural. Our first efforts were after the civil war. 1865 to 1877. We did achieve some racial progress. We had black elected officials. 1500 we had a freedmens bureau. We had the creation of black churches and Public Schools, but we also institutionalized racial segregation rather quickly by the 1880s and 1890s. And we did it through racial violence and public policy. Our second reconstruction is the Civil Rights Movement between 1954 and 1965. When we think about Public School desegregation and the Voting Rights act and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. There was again racial progress, but that was really quickly closed off when we think about 1968. The assassination of Martin Luther king jr. , the assassination of Bobby Kennedy, the assassination of malcolm x. Now, we have another effort. In
Susan dr. Peniel joseph, you and i planned this interview three months back, but we got sideways with the covid lockdown. As a historian, how are you processing this time this country is going through . Prof. Joseph i have been writing a lot, both opeds in for a longer piece. It is extraordinary watershed moment. I think we are living through a third american reconstruction effort to reconstruct democracy so that it is multiracial, multicultural. Our first efforts were after the civil war. 1865 to 1877. We did achieve some racial progress. We had 15 black elected officials. We had a freedmens bureau. We had the creation of black churches and Public Schools, but we also institutionalized racial segregation rather quickly by the 1880s and 1890s. We did it through racial violence and public policy. Our second reconstruction is the Civil Rights Movement between 1954 and 1965. When we think about Public School desegregation and the Voting Rights act and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Bute wa
A week since the death of george floyd and. Coming back from kobe germany is governing coalition approves the biggest economic stimulus package since world war 2 chancellor Angela Merkel says the aim is to give the next generations the future. Im sorry kelly walked into the Program Police in hong kong are urging people to stop gathering to avoid spreading the coronavirus a number of protesters have been arrested thousands have lit candles across the city to mark the anniversary of chinas crackdown in Tiananmen Square chinese troops are thought to have killed thousands of thousands of prodemocracy activists 31 years ago now with or to say that they wont approve any commemoration because of the corona virus but critics insist its another move to suppress for that. Lets bring in correspondent phoebe kong who is standing by phebe whats happening right now. Assails and i says call us today why commemoration in different part of the city in hong kong tonight and the whole broke out in one of
Talk we will have an author signing. Finally located across the lobby and finally we will have a question and answer session after the talk so come down to the microphone where you can ask questions and then you can access the microphone. Now want to turn to our speaker. The awardwinning investigative journalist and the twitter writers of the boston globe had the documentary series on pbs. Please join me to welcome our author. [applause] and with the introduction. Thank you to the Boston Public Library for sponsoring this event and to cspan books. Can everyone hear me . No. Into the stellar, columnist joining me later in the program so that is the format for 25 minutes or so and with the introduction of the highlights to you and then we will open the conversation i brought a few photos of material i also brought a few audio clips and some excerpts from interviews that i conducted while i was working on the book. On the morning of april 3r april 3rd, 1968, Martin Luther king junior died
House, and the main work that we did was with the native american community, and at that time it was with the 558 federally recognized tribes was one group, but there was also a special group that they talked about, and that was urban indians. Those that lived in urban centers that were not recognized, that were not on the map. So we went out of the way with president clinton. We hosted the First National conference for native americans with president clinton, so thats something that i carrie with me to this day. So i really appreciate supervisor ronen, supervisor brown, addres well as the enti Community Coming out for this important item. Secondly, im moving for landmark designation for 4767 through 4776 Mission Street. Both of the the Royal Bakery Company was built in 1935 and is one of San Franciscos most exuberant examples of our deco design as noted by the original green and yellow ceramic tile cladding, saw tooth peak parapet with pins and speed lines. It also has significance in