Huerta. I moved to california when i was six years old. My parents divorced, my mother but my two brothers to california. We had a lot of discrimination in high school against kids of caller. Color. . The highschooler went to a, you always had this sense of injustice. The high school i went to, he always had this sense of injustice. You had a lot of the same dynamics that were going on their. A lot of people a lot of dynamics going on there. A lot of people were making them feel like a people as individuals. That dynamic permeated the whole community. In 1942, when we went into the war, they brought in many people from mexico to fulfill the farm labor. What happened is after the war ended they kept bringing in more people. The domestic workers wages dropped. They would bring in the others and not pay the local workers. I formed an organization called the agricultural Workers Association as part of the afo cio. I left the organization because it did not feel like they were doing the org
This important event is cosponsored by the black alumni alliance. The mission of the black alum alumni is to create a community that identify with black and african Heritage Diaspora for meaningful engagement toward greater awareness, pride, participation, Volunteer Involvement and commitment to american university. Were pleased to have a number of alliance members here tonight include Alliance President Gordon Andrew. Special thanks to dr. Sherry williams who will interview him on the stage of his presentation of about 20 minutes. He was an investigative reporter for 30 years. His stories have helped put four Ku Klux klans men and a suspected serial killer behind bars. His stories helped lead to the release of two people from mississippis death row. He is finishing his memomemoir. He is Cofounder And Director of the Mississippi Center for investigative reporting. Earlier a degree in english with a concentration in journalism from Jackson State University and mississippi. Interestingly
Welcome here at american University School of communication led by dean jeffrey rudenbeck. This important event is cosponsored by the black alumni alliance. The mission of the black alum alumni is to create a community that identify with black and african Heritage Diaspora for meaningful engagement toward greater awareness, pride, participation, Volunteer Involvement and commitment to american university. Were pleased to have a number of alliance members here tonight include Alliance President Gordon Andrew. Special thanks to dr. Sherry williams who will interview him on the stage of his presentation of about 20 minutes. He was an investigative reporter for 30 years. His stories have helped put four Ku Klux klans men and a suspected serial killer behind bars. His stories helped lead to the release of two people from mississippis death row. He is finishing his memomemoir. He is Cofounder And Director of the Mississippi Center for investigative reporting. Earlier a degree in english with
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