Up next, an oral history with u. S. Army veteran baldwin myers, recorded in 2015 by the korean war legacy foundation. He talked about his time in korea and how the experience shaped his life after the war. He was eventually diagnosed with ptsd. The interview project was underwritten by south koreas ministry of patriots and veterans affairs. Baldwin i am baldwin frank myers. My first name is spelled b as in boy, aldwin. In the army i was known by my buddies as baldy. [laughter] but when when i reported back to them years later, 30 years later, that this is frank myers and i wanted to talk to them, they didnt know who i was because they only knew me as baldy. But we when we got that cleared up, then Everything Else flowed. Interviewer and could you spell your last name . Baldwin myers. Interviewer what is your birthday . Baldwin may 29, 1931. Interviewer where were you born . Baldwin in owyhee county, idaho. That is spelled that is the indian name owyhee county, idaho. Thats near Jordan
Professor taylor focuses on the 1954 u. S. Supreme Court Decision in brown v. Board of education, the integration of a high school in little rock, arkansas, and the 1960 sit in at a lunch counter in greensboro, North Carolina. Folks, welcome to this class in africanAmerican History. Were going Movement Origin our discussion of the Civil Rights Movement tonight. For those of you in this room who know who i am, but for others im Quintard Taylor and im a professor of history, American History at the university of washington. Ok, well get started. Last time last week we talked about world war ii and one of the things that i tried to emphasize was the fact that ordinary people were becoming much more militants or militant or aggressive in defending their civil rights. Im going to continue that theme tonight and, indeed, i think its even more so the case in the 1950s and 1960s that ordinary people became the engines of the Civil Rights Movement. We tend to think about the Civil Rights Moveme
Were going Movement Origin our discussion of the Civil Rights Movement tonight. For those of you, those of you in this room know who i am but for others im Quintard Taylor and im a professor of history, American History at the university of washington. Ok, well get started. Last time last week we talked about world war ii and one of the things that i tried to emphasize was the fact that ordinary people were becoming much more militant and aggressive in defending their civil rights. Im going to continue that theme tonight and, indeed, i think its even more so the case in the 1950s and 1960s that ordinary people became the engines of the Civil Rights Movement. We tend to think about the Civil Rights Movement as Martin Luther king, jr. , fanny hammer and largerthanlife figures. The Civil Rights Movement was made up by ordinary people including and youll find out tonight a lot of college students. A lot of college students. In fact, in some ways the driving force of the Civil Rights Moveme
University titled u. S. Politics and government from the earliest days of the american republic. American history tv airs at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan 3. Adam, the title of your paper here at the meeting is crossing the border after the underground railroad, africanamerican north americans returning from canada. Why was slaves trying to escape to canada and how were they able to do that . So, the underground railroad really is a whole set of things together. Its boats. Its some rails. Its roads. It was people trying to get out of serving, finding where they can be safe. Sometimes it was just in the northern states. Sometimes mexico. Most famously to go to canada, being in a different country and be free from the chance they could get recaptured and brought back to slavery. What was that journey like . Where are slaves at this time and how are they making that journey into canada . In the decades before the civil war slaves are every where in the United States. We think most of them b
Somewhere they could be safe. Sometimes that was just the northern states. Sometimes mexico. And most famously all the way to canada to be in a completely different country and be free from the chance that they could get recaptured and brought about a into slavely. What was the journey like . Where are slaves at this time . And how were any making that journey in canada. In the decades before the civil war slaves were really everywhere in the United States. We think of them mostly in the south, rural places. But enslaved people are in cities, enslaved people are brought into northern cities. Some of them are sort of rented into the west and the northwest. And so theyre really everywhere. And often they would take the tune when they saw one either working with a network of people or by themselves to escape slavery. And to seek that freedom that they could find. What is the story that stands out to you of in your research of the slave making that journey . My research is really focused o