Women Of Triumph II

Why would you tell kids that I was fundamentally nosey and that journalism seemed the perfect. Profession for somebody like me. People on LIVE FROM nothing gone from nothing to a museum that services. The state of Melanie I think. Time Zone can you call me Dragon Lady. Of the movement. Better because of women because they know that most of the help that says most women do things as I do that it's on the shoulders a lot. I carry law. Welcome to MP women of triumph the great English writer Thomas Carlyle said. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. How that extraordinary women during the next hour you're going to see how Maryland women have been writing our state's history through their courage hard work and persistence in our first story. April Curtis Haynes overcame tremendous odds to wind up

on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera because she refused to give up. But I like to think of myself. I don't want anybody forming and having anything other than the story. And if they can think about anything else and with her. Today as a rising star with the Metropolitan Opera a tremendous achievement until she was 30 and her road to success was not easy. I didn't know that I was not supposed to possibly make it and sing classical music and eventually end up at the Met. I simply wanted to be a better singer. As a young child growing up in a rough section of West Baltimore Haynes never knew her father.

Her oldest brother died of lead poisoning at age three. She witnessed the death of her mother at the hands of a drunken boyfriend and then endured nine years in foster care. My mother's passing when I was nine years old was my key out. I didn't realize it then but had she not passed. I feel I probably would have been left to a life very similar to a lot of girls. Who who lived in that neighborhood who did not survive. I consider myself lucky. I knew that all the love and the passion that I had in my heart for so many things and especially my music. The life that I was living could not have been in its final intention. I was at the age of 18 Hayne said Al on her own in rolling at Morgan State college to pursue a business degree. Music remained her first love. I can tell by the anticipation. That I have. Looking forward to becoming part of the

music program. Because Dr. Carter had been I had been a freshman and Dr. Corder took us to I was Tony Hall for four program where we sat. And we were there. In the in the quadrangle of Lincoln Center. It was this it was late spring late spring. Normally we would do our tours and. Never. In a million years. In 1971 what I ever have to ram. That place would be my. Place. After graduation Haynes soon found herself balancing the demands of a job along with those of a wife mother and aspiring artist. Along the way one of her brothers died of AIDS and a sister was murdered in a robbery. These things other other kinds of things that helped to make me strong and send her along. Most people say when they endure things as I did that they carry chips on their shoulders while I carry block shield is a

very broad and very capable. But I survived it all. I survived it all. My soprano at the rolling part Presbyterian Church was my it was a very very special for me to sing for them and to open. To begin my professional singing career and it was wonderful because it was very challenging. The music was always new. One of the best moments in this congregation was the moment they both responded to the Spirit of God moving in her Earth. We have never had it happen here before. It's a light of

God's gift to her. Many gifts to her. That gift of being most personable and being able to communicate through music and words every living human being not just adults not just children not just African-Americans not just. Whites but everyone. While Roman park Presbyterian is where she got her first professional break experience stage life a few years earlier she was a chorus member in the Baltimore Opera and tells opera co-production of Porgy and Bess for her it was a new performing arts arena. How do you know. Not a quote. I have never seen one. I will never forget when I walked into my first opera of this room. I met director John Layman who watched me and said I don't know what you think you're meant to do but you're meant for the stage. And took me to Tulsa Oklahoma with him. My life has not been the same since.

But the greatest influence on April Haynes was her voice teacher the late Todd Duncan legendary star of George and Ira Gershwin's Porgy and Bess and the first African-American male to sing an operatic role written for a white person. We had essence wonderful as she leaves home. That's where I think she is profoundly and I'm totally dedicated to the art of saying I never had it in my eyes. You. Were with her every dress was in. I meant to do and I really enjoyed it very much. Mr. Duncan has been my teacher friend father grandfather

mentor source of inspiration on so many occasions he's SO MANY THINGS TO ME. He's simply my beloved. After years of determined preparation pains at the recommendation of a friend he was singing at the Met. Auditions for the Metropolitan Opera. The nuns were against her. There are only 18 positions in the chorus open slots are rare and the competition from around the world includes people who are groomed from birth. But Haines commanding stage presence caught the attention of the maestro. Even now the chills kind of. It was unbelievable. I had I had to sit down. I really had that phone call changed my life. Well most of us may see her as a lady from Baltimore who is making it.

Her greatest role in being something that she never had. A mother. My priorities have never been in question. Many people might think in looking at the choices that I've made that I have been in pursuit of a career or maybe start a movement. I would have had to differ with you. It is my greatest role today being a mother and everything else is like icing on the cake. Yes I think of the Med it's wonderful like to hear about my 16 1/2 achievement attract international attention. And this is a tradition for Maryland women consider diva Rosa Ponce el. It was the voice that made her the queen of queens in all of singing

legendary opera diva Rosa ponce. Discovered by the great Enrico Caruso while performing in Vala Ville opposite Caruso as Leonora in their day as La Forza del Destino in 1918. With this performance she became the first American born artist without formal or European training to sing a major role at the Metropolitan Opera. And for the next 19 years. This dramatic soprano sang gloriously at the Met. In 1937 at the height of her career and in her vocal prime. Pond cell shock the music world. She stopped performing opera and would only be heard in concerts or recordings. She married a Baltimore businessman Carl Jackson and built a home in the Green

Spring Valley called Villa Park. Later she became the first female artistic director of the Baltimore Civic Opera Ponce El spent her remaining forty four years nurturing coaching and launching the careers of aspiring operatic talent plus ago Domingo Beverly Sills Les Undine price and William Warfield. Ponce Health Foundation sponsors an annual vocal competition for young Maryland residents. As well as hosts an international competition. I think we all know that Ponce el was simply the greatest singer of.

Hers was a voice for old time Rosa. I think Rosa Ponce would be proud of the next history making generation of international star. Awesome Dostum is what they call her dominate Dawna's is from Silver Spring Maryland and she helped lead the U.S. Olympic gymnastics team to gold. Ask her what her secret to success is and she'll probably say every word she keeps repeating in her head. Determination dedication and dynamic. Another athlete to win gold in the 1906 Summer Olympics is Timonium

Botsford winning two gold medals won on the 100 meter backstroke and another in the 400 medley relay that has been breaking every age group record since she was nine years old. At the age of two. Alicia Graff of Columbia was put into dance class by her parents. Donna Harrington pain her dance instructor at the ballet Royal Academy an elegant city knew right away that she was dealing with a potential ballerina. Her instructor was right. Now this graceful 18 year old is performing with. The Dance Theater of Harlem. Southern Maryland's Native American people the Piscataway considered women tribal leaders. They own the homes and lineage was traced through the mother's line. Our next woman of triumph. Natalie Proctor is a descendant of those first Americans. She embodied those leadership qualities in her efforts to

preserve her cultural heritage. She and her Native American community the American Indian cultural center and the Piscataway Indian Museum. Staff lings and saplings our young tree put into the ground. Like anybody ever put up a tent. OK. We definitely and Kerridge school children to come and visit our museum. And I think we have a wonderful program. Which allows not just to end this but to actually experience what it was like to live. And those time him on my back. Right. And how do the field will go so far. Kind of.

A circle story on housing. There's a long list of items and that was introduced that our society still uses today. Stop and think about his origin. The American program Native children that teach them their culture. It provides an outlet where they could be with children of their own background which allows them to express how they feel. Being in the society of non Indian people. In my time of growing. I remember. When their history was being introduced. Somewhat mentioned. Native people and went straight into the history of

the Europeans founding the country. I felt very left out very left out. It became my passion to to fight vigorously to get the history of my ancestors in the state of Maryland. There's a void in us that doesn't allow us to really be who we are until we know where we've been. And what our people have suffered what our people have sacrificed. On the many aspects of. Our Lives and traditions that have been lost. We were able to hang on you know. Our dancing. Our Song. The importance of knowing the history and I can only speak for myself

as an individual. Growing up feeling and feeling not being a part of this great country has to offer and not finding my neck which And I truly believe that regardless of who we are what color we are what cultural group we belong to. It's important to know that so we can do this puzzle that we now call the United States of America. Natalie proctors Museum is an historic first for her people but our state's history is full of women who not only move in new directions but shake things up. Lilly Mae Jackson was deeply involved in politics and civil rights.

Born in Baltimore in 1889 this former teacher became a staunch civil rights leader and an organizer. In the end. With only five members in 1935 she was elected as the president of the Baltimore branch. She quickly recruited new members and the branch grew until the largest in the country with a membership of over 17000 by 1946. Mrs. Jackson organized voter registration rallies protest marches and boycotts fighting racial injustices during her long tenure. Her slogan was ballots not bullets. Lillie Mae Jackson. Lavinia Margaret angle suffragist politician and social activist served as the field secretary of the National American

women's suffrage movement from 1913 til the passage of the 19th Amendment. In 1929. Lavinia Engle became the first woman from a Gun Ri County to be elected to the Maryland House of Delegates. Her legislation on unemployment insurance thrust her into the national policy making arena in 1933. She then went to work for the federal government where she remained until she retired in 1966. For over 50 years Lavinia Engels career and advocacy affected many positive changes for women. In 1854 the Sisters of Mercy founded a small hospital in downtown Baltimore. Times changed in a century or so later. Mercy was struggling tempted to follow other institutions in a flight to the suburbs. That temptation resisted. The hospital stayed

downtown and under the guidance of a remarkable nun transformed itself into a top ranked water and medical center. Baltimore's Mercy Hospital was recently named one of the country's top 100 hospitals and was listed by Self magazine among the best for women's health care. I want to see for myself what mercy was offering that other hospitals were not. What I found. Was the mercy Center for Women's Health and Medicine and a wide range of health care not just hand. There's a Breast Center and imaging services gynecologic oncology and a Heart Program mental health cosmetic surgery grosses urine area incontinence and much more. There's also the Women's Resource Center a great spot to attend classes or catch up on the latest research. And it's not mercies only educational effort. One of America's 10 best women

centers. I understand the WBA LTV has teamed up with the Women's Center for the women's doctor is the subject of tonight's woman's doctor Dr. Nancy Ashburn says that the architect of all the success his sister Helen Amos mercies president and CEO Warfield magazine recognizes her as one of Baltimore's power elite. The Daily Record says she's among Maryland's top 10 women. And Baltimore Magazine calls her one of the 50 most powerful women. Hi. Laurie. Very wonderful. Why did you decide to create the Center for Women's Health and Medicine. Mercy. Had had. A very good reputation. O be g y n. For a long period of time. But right there in the 80s and early 90s when we were at the top of our game in that area but we thought we could recapture it because there were enough people in Baltimore that

remembered mercy for that. But we wanted to take a much broader focus on women's health and say you know a woman's life is not confined to her childbearing years. And one of the things that came out of the research was you better be good to women because they do make most of the health care decisions for their families. Other hospitals have tried to attract women but mercy has been named one of the top 10 in the country for women's health. So Sister Helen What's the secret of your success. I have had women say to me that they come into one of our centers within the women's center and they say it's like I'm being embrace by the whole staff I experience it myself. You know when I walk in and I want to ask a favor and you know people are really really forthcoming and and giving of themselves really caring empathetic. And I think that makes all the difference. Since Marcy is a Catholic hospital what services would you not find here.

We do not provide abortion services. We also do not provide sterilization. We also have not entered at all into any of the programs. For assisting reproduction. Not that they're all forbidden by the church but it would be significant I think to try to isolate out which ones are OK in the Roman Catholic Church so we just have not entered into that program. There are a lot of women who aspire to leadership in the healthcare field. What advice would you give them. Out of Africa there was a line there that was one of my favorites and it said. The reason why God made the world round is so that we can only see so far down the road. You have to believe that you can act without knowing all the answers. What's going to happen about what's going to happen next because. Our field is very turbulent this time we don't know what's going to

happen even in the next months certainly not years getting Yeah getting hungry she's going to start eating her thought. This has been a very very special part of my life coming here into health care which was not what I was originally trained for. And seeing how it can turn you on to see people helped in a very concrete way. Sister Helen Amos like our other women of triumph found that her trail had been blazed by earlier pioneers. Rove advocated choices for patients with breast cancer. She was diagnosed with the disease in 1074. The accepted medical practice of immediate radical mastectomy over the next 10

years is writing and hard work brought the issue of alternative treatments to national attention. From her home she started the first Breast Cancer Advisory Center. ROSE There's efforts to change medical practices and help to reduce the number of radical mastectomy. She died in 1990. Dr. Florence Satan established an outstanding reputation as a research scientist and inspiring instructor. In her 28 years at the Johns Hopkins Medical School. During her first year she became fascinated with the study of microorganisms. From that moment her trademark was the microscope. Her work on the lymphatic system is considered by some as her most significant contribution. In 1970 Dr. Sagan was

elected president of the American Association of anatomists. The first woman ever named to that office. A new generation of outstanding Maryland women is already on the horizon. You're about to meet an actress who got a starring role in a Hollywood feature film at age 10. Another 10 year old founded happy helpers for the homeless a girl from Kenya whose years in refugee camps cut her formal education down to almost nothing. Maybe on a roll. Her first school year in this country a violinist who started playing at four years of age now performs with world class symphonies. Two other girls lost a friend to a drunk driver and launched a crusade they called for the love of Annie. Get that for five war fledgling women of trial. I was into acting when I was 8 years old and I've been

dancing since I was still and my friend one who didn't come with her causation for show called The Royal Irish follies and when I went there I merely talked to my mom and stepdad but I had a real talent on that I needed to work with that I will be running on the dividend since it is something that I'm doing inspires hobby and it's something different in the girl handling rejection isn't very hard for me. All I have to say to myself you know I tried my best and there's just other people that are looking for certain type of money just to that part and I just tell myself that I'll try next time. I bound her that of myself when I was eight years old my mom and then it isn't viewed by my community and then I also found in another argument and I'm in one place but I don't want to. Live I want to do something on my own. I've done a book raise what other trades and all the wonderful work that you have done. So far and I'm. Need it now is increasing sentiment. At 110.

Pounds 10 years on and I went out at the beginning I had an idea. I told my mom what I wanted to do. I came up with him and then I went around the local business and what I wanted to do this is how you can help me advertise a lot and local newspapers in order to get people to come in to volunteer and to donate good products and just different things that we would need to start the organization. Left her native home of Somalia because of the Civil War lived as a refugee in Kenya for four years back home. Looping through Red Bull that they'll back the record out a little if only as a solid and flew at her with evidence that I have been sick or or my parents I think. But five hours 30 or a felon that is that careful where they are

despite only having six years of formal education. She managed to get above a 3.5 GPA point here and well I didn't know what I was going down the middle but now here I was thinking about my truth and building up times. I began to play the violin when I was about three and a half. When I moved here my teacher gradually started me doing walking temporary rights and also classes played with the Washington Symphony Orchestra. I was a part of the well-being Chamber Orchestra. I was part of the DC The orchestra program which is here in this Washington D.C. you're going to want to quit sometimes you're going to get tired of it because you do it so much missed it's repetition but you'll reap the rewards. You have to practice to get good at what you do.

Our crusade against drunk driving in 1993 we lost a dear friend of ours to a drunk driver in a car crash. What is going to happen to the drunk driver. I took my dear friend for life and the answer was I didn't get much evidence against him so I can get a phone call text you can see and he didn't die within two hours of the accident. Therefore they didn't have a key piece of evidence so there wasn't much that they could do to prosecute him for them of anyone as a group. Mothers and daughters who died. And as a group we made packets and passed them out to legislators door to door. We wanted to work on and from the beginning we were told it's a dead end we heard everything and everything was in his memory and we just kept fighting trying to make a strategy and. Think of it. Two Maryland teenagers set out to change the law and they did it. Makes you feel like waving the Star-Spangled Banner which by the way was made by yet

another Maryland woman. Born in 1776. Very young Pickersgill was a true daughter of the American Revolution. As a young widow Mary moved her family to the Bing Port of Baltimore to work as a flag and banner maker. Her most famous commission came in the second year of the War of 1812. To make a flag. So the British will have no difficulty in seeing it from a distance. The huge Garrison flag was to be thirty five forty two feet with 15 stars each two feet tall and fifteen stripes each two feet wide with help from our mother her daughter Caroline and two nieces Mary hand-stitched the four hundred yards of wall bunting

the flag had to be moved to a brewery nearer home to be completed. She was paid the sum. Four hundred and five dollars and ninety cents. In the dawn after the battle of Baltimore September 1814 Francis Scott Key cited the flag over Fort McHenry and was inspired to write a poem that would later be on the Star-Spangled Banner. The flag sown by Mary Young Pickersgill still inspires that hope of freedom today. One of the most important jobs that any newspaper is the editorial page editor when that position opened at The Baltimore Sun in 1907 every would watch to see who would be chosen. The post went to the Washington bureau chief of The Detroit News. Forty four year old Jacqueline Thomas. She came from a family that read for local newspapers every day. Moving to Baltimore Jackie

knew she would be the first woman and the first African-American to hold that job at the sun. So I was took hits that I was fundamentally knows and that journalism seemed the perfect profession for somebody like that. But I always intended to be a journalist see only thing I ever really seriously wanted to do I was an elementary school journalist I was a high school girl and there probably are not more than. A handful of newspapers whose editorial pages I really would have aspired to head. This was one of them. Thank you. I think a good editorial page has many goal one to enlighten people to to offer some guidance on the issues and personalities. So out of three to challenge people. And for to provoke the editorial page editor actually

runs a department DAY TO DAY is the chief operating officer you know affect the responsibilities are great when you're on an editorial page not just the basic newspaper responsibilities of being accurate. Yes you are speaking from authority. People are looking to you for opinions. Grounded well grounded in the facts and yeah it's a big responsibility. We have a staff of editorial writers there each of each is a specialist and in some area basically we meet around 9:45 one morning saying his way of life it's been his family there for generations is change you see anything else you think we need we need. Early this week from Baltimore County. Sometimes it's real clear what needs to be done and equally clear is probably who will do it who's sitting around the table. But are you going to write about current.

Seems unnatural. It's a process of working together building up a group chemistry getting ideas sometimes disagreeing a lot sometimes just kind of building on each other and through all of that we get to an opinion that's not. You know necessarily belonging to any one of us but it would reflect something bigger than any of us. It isn't one person's voice it isn't my voice is the publisher it's the collective consensus wisdom of that group. So maybe we could time it for much not much. You know if you know I do not want to time their editorials to public relations campaigns by interest groups and when editorial board meetings are at their best there's been an incredible level of discussion and I get there like graduate school seminars and I I like that. I like school a lot of what we do on the editorial page is similar to what the Supreme Court does. We stake out positions over the years

and we may modify them we may make some gradual changes but rarely will you see a hundred eighty degree turn on the editorial page on an issue during the Clinton scandal or we ran an editorial that has probably been the most talked about one that's right on the page since I've been here. By all accounts the editorial board process worked at its best. What resulted was a very strong. Sometimes strike an editorial with very sharp colloquial colorful language. Life is mimicking of a century old ludicrous of ease of Gilbert and Sullivan operetta except they had to choose the course of dancing books consist not only of Mr. Clinton not a Linda Tripp man Ms Lewinsky but Ms Reno and Mr. Starr and the lawyers and spin meisters and journalists. Bizarre I think is one of the best editorials I've read any place in

a very very long time and it really was the product of the collective thinking of the editorial board here. People look to a newspaper as a mirror of their lives. And. It's not been one of the strengths of many American dailies that they mirror the lives for example of the African-American middle class. When I came here in 1967 the morning sun and evening sun had separate editorial page that ass but they were all white male. Middle aged or elderly since the early 1980s the morning sun has always had an African-American that a char writer and has one replaced another you got the notion that not only could there be one but there could no longer not be one. In terms of what's going on in Washington or my views on what's happening at the state I'm not going to take a whole.

My number one priority really was getting to know this community this state and some of its key players. I think it's important for a newspaper to reflect the many components of the community it serves and I don't think the African-American community is the only segment that we're. Not doing as good a job as I'd like to see us to. This is a majority black city. Most of the elected officials are black. And I think definitely they would feel more inclined to be able to call Jackie knowing that there's a black person and they still may not agree with everything that's on the Opinion Page. But I think there is more of a comfort level there. I think Jackie Thomas has approached the job. With a lot of enthusiasm and fresh ideas. She's bringing a number of things to the page more graphics. The whole idea of having series on the editorial page is pretty new to the sun.

I think we're running more really short editorials but at the same time I think nothing of devoting the whole letter tural column to one subject if it's an important enough. But I think the desire is to create a newspaper with an editorial page. That draws more of their readers to the editorial page day after day after day. One of Jackie's goals here is to make sure we do good strong local coverage and take maybe an in-depth look at some issues things that matter to us every day. The death of a child the way it is now it is a crime to have a loaded gun in the house. The child the child dies and nobody cares about the fine and the fine is really I mean we are the ones who are probably most concerned at this paper about the overriding sense of

community. I mean that's one of the reasons we just ram that seven part series on regionalism because we care about the counties and the cities and the things that they have in common that draw them together. I think Jackie's hiring is clearly a new era at the sun. You know for the editorial page clearly and it's been interesting figuring out how we're going to move the page into a new era. Most mornings I get up and get my paper and I'm really thrilled but what I see. I'm usually thrilled when I look at the top of the page the first page I look at every day in the Baltimore Sun. Next a group of women whose names appeared on the pages of The Sun and other local papers many times a judge a police officer. And a high ranking official in the Republican Party all of them achieved newsworthy historic firsts. Educator politician public servant. Bertha Shepherd

Atkins born in 1906 and raised on the Eastern Shore had an extraordinary political career in the Republican Party. After many years as an educator and the dean of women at Western Maryland college. Ms. Atkins returned to Solsbury and entered the political arena. She rose quickly within the GOP and in two short years was elected Maryland's Republican National Committee woman. A tireless worker and brilliant organizer. She established the first national conference of Republican women held in Washington D.C. In April 1953. Five years later. Atkins was appointed undersecretary of health education and welfare becoming the first woman ever to hold that position in any department of the federal government. Bertha Shepherd Atkins continued to work for the GOP and her special interests in education until her death in 1983.

In 1937 Violet Hill White became the first African-American law enforcement officer for Baltimore City. Trained as a social worker she rarely carried a gun and never wore a uniform. Her incredible undercover work in the conviction of a major drug gang. White was invited in 1051 to testify before Congress about the destructiveness of illegal drugs. She received a special citation from the federal government for her courageous work. And after 30 years of valuable service to the city Mrs White retired at the rank of lieutenant. Her compassion and caring turned many away from a life of crime. She was known as Lady Violet Hill.

The judge agreed to see Davidson had a remarkable and distinguished public service career. She was the first woman to break the gender barrier not once but twice. In 1970 she was named secretary of employment and social services. The first woman to hold a cabinet position in Maryland government. And then in 1979 she was appointed to the Court of Appeals becoming the first woman to reach the state's highest court. Judge Rita C. Davidson. Courts law enforcement politics our final story touches all of those. It's about a housewife and mother who's concerned for the quality of life her children faced impelled her into the midst of conflict. During the summer of 1963. Time magazine called her hometown

the most violent place in America a cold rain of hate yet out of that cold wind came progress. As Gloria Richardson Dandridge faced band met and didn't back down. I. Was I was I. God. Had not been for the lawyer to say. I would dare say I. I don't know where the black person. Are the black people of Cain which would be today. Do you think your rejection was born into the most prominent black family in Cambridge a town of

13000 on the Eastern Shore drugstore. Her grandfather had been a member of the city council for nearly 40 years. Laurie Richardson was only 20 when she graduated from Howard University and returned to Cambridge. They were hiring black social workers. I got married and over the years had the two children Don and Matt. And there I was. In the 1930s there have been on the Eastern Shore 30 years later in the 1960s segregation remained a fact of life. I knew that there were certain places are not going to sit in the balcony. Of the gator and that was just the way it was. We do not have public

accommodation we do not have decent job we not have decent housing. It's dehumanizing when you are not allowed to go to sit in a restaurant and eat like anybody else just because of the color of your skin. Most people in my generation by that time again they dissatisfied because they had it you wouldn't even know where they were going with they would have a be on with. The country in 1963. Students were marching and demonstrating in the cause of civil rights. You're literacies daughter Donna was among them. Some of the civil rights organizations corn snake were conducting freedom rides and they organized the youth which came in. Freedom Riders move through the town after town they accepted the integration of public facilities.

Cambridge However resisted a came as officials were proud of their racial record especially compared to cities of the South. They noted that blacks voted represented on the town council. Worked as policeman and they thought the city's blacks were satisfied and they blamed the trouble on outside agitators. Young people like Donna Richardson prayed on the sidewalk to gain entrance to segregated facilities. Weeks passed but they were not admit it. Finally the students became discouraged. At that point their parents got involved. In the spring of 1963 This is Gloria Richardson now a 40 year old housewife took charge of the Cambridge civil rights movement and we had earlier taken a list of demands from the city council. They did not of course appreciate demands because you were supposed to ask them or beg them for it.

So base it up instantly in opposition to about 54 activists were arrested by retribution daughter and they were tried together so-called penny trials. They were found guilty by one and the judge reprimanded veteran families growing the many trials opposition to integration intensified. The situation in Cambridge became increasingly dangerous. There were shootings at night in the homes of African-Americans were firebombed. They were a lot of threat both to me and my family and also to other families that were in the room or was that. That someone had put out a contract. To have someone come into Cambridge to PR. It was reported that the Klan had Gloria Richardson as number two right after Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.. He had become a life and death struggle. And I think with that afterwards you

think you know Was I crazy or you know what Earth was going on. But during that time it was just something we had to keep moving forward. Getting no favorable response from Cambridge officials Maurya Richardson turned to the federal government. She gathered data on the status of blacks. I was in a no unity. At first. Attorney General was skeptical about Corey Richardson but after he read a study that Richardson conducted which detailed the social situations and catch his views change he did almost 180 degree turn. He was hard nosed but I didn't find that to be a problem. That's what you have to be to in most cases to get things done. Despite the involvement of the federal government events in Cambridge remains dangerous. The black community campus outreach center two juveniles they were given very harsh sentences right. Things got so out of control that on June 15th 1963 governor ordered the

National Guard. To go out had a ban on demonstrations. Personally they like to test that. That day they had grown can't get inside. And when I look at this band that was coming at me and I don't know why I keep looking at that picture. But anyhow I pushed it I thought this man is crazy and I'm turned away and cursed at him. It was kind of. Weirdly edgy. Under pressure from the Justice Department representatives of the black community bridge and the state signed a five point agreement protest would stop in exchange for material and tangible reforms including the establishment of a Human Relations Committee. The hiring of a black by the local Employment Security Office

meeting at desegregation of schools and hospitals building public housing and desegregation of public accommodations. We did not know some prez who promised to give up demonstrations until all the pieces of. His saddle. Why second. Nationalist opposed to accommodation. Part of the group that put it up to. Richardson call for a boycott she felt part of one of these rights and should have to vote. Why should you have to put it to a vote going to agree with you if you were born here like everybody else. You have that right as a result of Gloria Richardson's boycott of the vote. And the fact majority of whites voted against the second public accommodation. Tensions high. National Guard remain in town until the passage of the night to write. The law had not been signed into effect. By him an hour. Before we

went and tested it. We never have thought of stopping of drawing back. We were arrested. I was arrested several times. My mother was a risk that a lot of our senior citizens were arrested as well as the young people. We knew this was right. I could not have done any of that. If that whole community had not been behind me. I was just a boy. Mm. Mm hmm. We've seen that history is not just biographies of great men and that Heroes come in all sizes colors and genders. Here's what Joseph Campbell said

about heroes like these women of triumph. We need not risk the adventure alone for the heroes of all times have gone before us. The Labyrinth is thoroughly known. We have only to follow the thread of the hero path.