708 Hispanics in Higher Ed.; Images/Imagenes; 708

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Black children black against. Black and white. Don't come to me. And here's one. We want to do with you. So welcome to new.
Day out. Found a burned out station with no trace of the. 0 0. To get mad and we want your kids dropping Khan for $3 today
to get him to register. We'll be right with you when you grow up fast enough to make me. Washington the FBI announced today the arrests of members of the mob led by Deputy Sheriff Cecil Wright in connection with the murder of civil rights workers Andy Goodman James Chaney and Michael Schwerner. By the end of the summer 964 hundreds had been arrested. Sixty six times and charges had been set afire. Five thousand negroes had been registered in a Black Freedom Democratic Party. Thirty thousand had been roaming Freedom Schools throughout a community center begun and a lot and then moved to pass the Civil Rights Bill of
1964. Early in 1960 Nobel Peace Prize winner Martin Luther King was thrown into a Selma Alabama Jr.. His drive to register Alabama Negroes was under attack by Sheriff Jim Clark using electric cattle prods on people. Police had attacked the crowd with the register and many including King had been arrested. Legislation sixty one thousand sixty six
registered to vote only 300 was defeated at the. Graduate of the Mississippi down to and stand up and demand their political rights. On the second day a shotgun and gunned him down. The three shots failed to kill James but they may have signaled the end of the integrated civil rights movement. Stokely Carmichael had been hounded by vigilantes and beaten by some of them really.
Like so many in the movement he had seen his friends and the church he had seen made a mockery of by Ray who juggles and I like Yuri when he resume America's unfinished march again. He raised the gun shot of black. You know a few years ago everybody in that country went raving mad when I don't like the word. Like how long we've been. Powerless people. Well the 100 year I've seen people are boxed in black children and I'm you know I've seen people back the end black people in Chicago Illinois in the slums with the baby rat. Even though I'm the baby in the state of Mississippi Babson black
people rate Oh America. And we know that this country was built on OWN the sweat and blood of black people. People are you know why people are many are not. Don't you want you. Because you don't know about the black people. So what. But black economic power. In the
educational system that not only the Bacchae it but the white know the kind that have been made by black people. This country we determine some of our destiny and this one me we will have something to say about this. Now the struggle is being waged not only in the ghettos of the north and in the Jim Crow South but in the farmlands of California the mountains of Appalachia and the Indian reservations across the west everywhere. Generation of Men is seeking to build but this is not just their struggle for love of us it's the struggle to redeem the soul of America. But
I'm. Black and white. They wouldn't. Aniston Alabama freedom by Sam voiced by white mob writers beaten. Birmingham Alabama freedom riders attacked with iron bars by white gang and bus terminal. Police Chief Connor said today Birmingham police were not able to protect the riders because so many of the police were all for Mother's Day. President Kennedy and Alabama protect Freedom Rider riders in Alabama capital.
President orders intervention of Federal more troops to protect Boston. Ron wrote to Mr. separate. Now a wave of freedom ride herd to the south. Testing the laws and filling the jail. My family Interstate Commerce Commission for bad discrimination on Interstate trains buses and terminals. The offending signs white and colored came down in 1962 James Meredith broke the color line at the University of Mississippi in Rome and triggered a riot by white during the violence. Two were killed and 15000 soldiers in a camp on the campus to keep the peace. Total segregation in Mississippi had been cracked but not in Birmingham Alabama for another year. Birmingham continue to flout Supreme Court autos to be segregated public willing
to undercount English Spanish subtitles. March 14th thanking each cost. This program was made possible in part by a grant from Xerox Corporation. Hello I'm cracking on these 1980s here and with it a new head count another dissent you'll Sensis this time a great deal of time and effort have been invested in trying to bring to our communities the message that it is vital to be counted
not to be counted. It means that as a community we will not be adequately represented in Congress. It means that we as minority groups in the communities we live in will not get our fair share of federal monies that are allocated and on the basis of census population statistics to discuss the undercount and its consequences. We have asked three distinguished guests to be here with us today Representative Robert Garcia Democrat from New York chairman of the Subcommittee on census and population. Mr. Ronnie could Deering of the Japanese American Citizens League and member of the Asian Pacific advisory committee on the census and Ms Doris Saunders of Jackson State University chairperson of the black population advisory committee to the Census Bureau. Remember I was D.A. chairperson of MALDEF and of the Hispanic advisory committee to the census could not be with us today. The advisory committees to the census were created after the incredible undercount with regard to the minority communities in 1970. Could you speak to that and give us some detail as to
how they were created Miss Saunders. Well in 1973 after the statistics were released indicating the undercount a number of groups interested people who had been inbred in trying to get a correct count. In 1978 I came to Washington to talk with the Census Bureau about the possibility for adjustment of the 1970 undercount. It became very clear very soon that we could not do anything about 1970 but we were invited to stay on as advisory members of a committee to work with the nine hundred eighty population census and hope that we could get a correct count for 1980. And that's how the.
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- 708 Hispanics in Higher Ed.
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- Images/Imagenes
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- 708
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- New Jersey Network (Trenton, New Jersey)
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- "Imagenes (also Images in English) is a Emmy award-winning show that features documentaries and in-depth conversations with panels of experts, focusing on the lives, history, and culture of Latino communities in New Jersey."
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- Chicago: “708 Hispanics in Higher Ed.; Images/Imagenes; 708,” New Jersey Network, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed July 31, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-259-416t1h8b.
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- APA: 708 Hispanics in Higher Ed.; Images/Imagenes; 708. Boston, MA: New Jersey Network, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-259-416t1h8b