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The Sit-In Story: The Story of the Lunch Room Sit-Ins
"I had to decide that I was a Negro and an American, a Christian, a human being who wanted to be considered as a human being and who wanted to be thought of as a human being and who wanted to be thought of as a person who gave respect and demanded respect and in this way I saw the need for maturity." Thus spoke P...
"I had to decide that I was a Negro and an American, a Christian, a human being who wanted to be considered as a human being and who wanted to be thought of as a human being and who wanted to be thought of as a person who gave respect and demanded respect and in this way I saw the need for maturity." Thus spoke Peggy Alexander, one of four African-Americans who engaged in a peaceful sit-in at a Greyhound lunch counter. There were a few sympathe...
"I had to decide that I was a Negro and an American, a Christian, a human being who wanted to be considered as a human being and who wanted to be thought of as a human being and who wanted to be thought of as a person who gave respect and demanded respect and in this way I saw the need for maturity." Thus spoke Peggy Alexander, one of four African-Americans who engaged in a peaceful sit-in at a Greyhound lunch counter. There were a few sympathetic white business owners, such as Greenfield Pitts, leaders who found the strength within themselves to sit down with nonviolent protesters to ask what they wanted and what they expected from the community. This recording, made in 1960, explores the controversy through firsthand reflection. Also featuring the voices of Martin Luther King, Jr., John R. Cunningham and Kelly Miller Smith.
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"But especially American Negroes must know what is going on in the world today and learn for themselves what [Socialism] has to teach them in order that they may preserve their culture, get rid of their poverty, ignorance and disease and help America live up at least to a shadow of its vain boast as the land of th...
"But especially American Negroes must know what is going on in the world today and learn for themselves what [Socialism] has to teach them in order that they may preserve their culture, get rid of their poverty, ignorance and disease and help America live up at least to a shadow of its vain boast as the land of the free and the home of the brave" (W. E. B. DuBois, 1960). An unapologetic advocate for socialism, DuBois criticizes capitalism with bi...
"But especially American Negroes must know what is going on in the world today and learn for themselves what [Socialism] has to teach them in order that they may preserve their culture, get rid of their poverty, ignorance and disease and help America live up at least to a shadow of its vain boast as the land of the free and the home of the brave" (W. E. B. DuBois, 1960). An unapologetic advocate for socialism, DuBois criticizes capitalism with biting words as he delivers a speech to the Wisconsin Socialist Club at age ninety-two.
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