Joseph today im going to talk about the korean war and were going to talk a little bit about Civil Military relations. Last time we met we talked about the cold war and the development of containment. Korea was an unusual situation in that it had been a colony of japans since 1910, during the Second World War there was fighting in korea. The u. S. And the soviet union jointly occupied korea and they agreed to divide korea. Now, now, northern korea, that is what we call today north korea was very much communist influenced. Southern korea, which we now call south korea was a very different situation. With the assist of the United Assistance of the United Nations, they sponsored elections in south korea and south koreans elected a democratic government. North korea, however, wanted to unite under its terms and so it sent insurgents to try and overthrow that government and they failed to do so. Then, in january of 1950, the u. S. Secretary of state made a significant error. In a speech in
Willy toombs. I am the seed of the crisis. That history was planted in me, and i grow. And as i grow, i continue to sprout bits and pieces of that history. And im thankful. Im thankful because without the central high crisis, my life would be totally different than what it is now. But because i have learned to love and still love to learn, i am blessed with the opportunity to introduce to you some panelists that will talk about whats happened since the crisis. First of all, i will say that our first two speakers will be members of the little rock nine. And you have to forgive us because this is a very busy day, they will be exiting as soon as theyre finished speaking because they have other events they must attend. Let me introduce the panelists and then well get started. One of our youngest members is krystle c mercer, little rock born. Her artistic talents have been displayed around the state in new york and canterbury, england. She fuses art and activism to tell social justice narra
Diana i started freelancing in the 1970s and i went to work for a small washington magazine. Charlie peters, the editor, said to me, we dont have much money spend on photography. I thought, oh dear. He said we can only pay you 25 for every picture we use, but the good news is if you work for us on a freelance basis i can get you your credentials to shoot on the hill and at the white house. I said youve got a deal. This will be great. I began to freelance around washington and the business of washington is politics. I started photographing for the monthly and i would photograph a lot of things on set for them. At the same time, that built up my portfolio. I went to see time and a lot of places. They would either give me work or they wouldnt. I went to see time and they started giving me work. One of the assets i had in my hand was my credential to go to the white house. Time often, photographers who worked for them, might not be there when all of a sudden they relate get a call from a w
And as i grow, i continue to sprout bits and pieces of that history. And im thankful. Im thankful because without the central high crisis, my life would be totally different than what it is now. But because i have learned to love and still love to learn, i am blessed with the opportunity to introduce to you some panelists that will talk about whats happened since the crisis. First of all, i will say that our first two speakers will be members of the little rock nine. And you have to forgive us because this is a very busy day, they will be exiting as soon as theyre finished speaking because they have other events they must attend. Let me introduce the panelists and then well get started. One of our youngest members is krystle c. Mercer, little rock born. She is the proprietor of columbus arts. Her artistic talents have been displayed around the state in new york and canterbury, england. She fuses art and activism to tell social justice narratives through merchandising and storytelling.
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