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- Description:
- Jordan also discusses the reasons why white liberals do not understand Jimmy Carter.
- Date Issued:
- 1976-06-02T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Carter also says he has no apologies for his record for the first six month vis a vis the Black community.
- Date Issued:
- 1977-07-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Barack Obama speaks at the dedication of the monument honoring Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the Mall in Washington, D.C. Obama reflects on the civil rights struggles of decades past and the goals yet to be achieved before Dr. King's vision is fully realized.
- Date Issued:
- 2011-10-16T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Wayne State University Professor and labor historian Francis Shor delivers a talk titled, "The IWW Insurgence of 1912: Working Class Men & Women in Revolt". Shor explains the influence of the Industrial Workers of the World and describes two significant events in the history of the IWW and the labor movement in general. These are: the Lawrence, MA uprising and the San Diego free speech fight. He weaves in aspects of gender and ethnicity to explain the actions and effect of the the IWW as part of a broader working class movement. A question and answer session follows. Shor is introduced by Michigan State University Professor John P. Beck. Part of the "Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives" Brown Bag series sponsored by the MSU School of Human Resources and Labor Relations and the MSU Museum.
- Date Issued:
- 2012-09-12T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Bush celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of President Johnsons civil rights law, reaffirming support of minority outreach and affirmative action programs.
- Date Issued:
- 1989-06-30T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Lyndon Baines Johnson speaks with the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. about the importance of passing recently proposed civil rights legislation. Played from recently released, secretly recorded tapes on "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer."
- Date Issued:
- 1963-11-25T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Obama addresses the National Urban League at their convention in New Orleans, LA. He recounts the struggle for equal rights and the reasons the Urban League was formed. Obama talks about equal opportunity, hard work, and achieving the American dream. He declares education is an economic issue and speaks about the need to change firearm laws to step-up background checks adding restrictions to keep mentally unbalanced individuals from buying weapons, all as part of an initiative to reduce all kinds of violence. His comments are made in the wake of a mass shooting in Aurora, CO.
- Date Issued:
- 2012-07-25T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Taft gives a campaign speech in Hot Springs, Virginia, on August 5, 1908 in which he stresses the advancement of the Negro since his freedom from slavery and the Republican platform demanding justice to all men and enforcement of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments of the Constitution.
- Date Issued:
- 1908-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Kirk Domer, Michigan State University Associate Professor of Theatre, moderates the first of three presentations at a symposium entitled, Dramatization and Context: a Symposium and Roundtable held at the MSU Museum in conjunction with the premiere staging of the play Music History written by MSU College of Law Writer in Residence Sandra Seaton. Featured presenters are, Ann Folino White, MSU Associate Professor of Arts and Humanities, and Renee Newman Knake, MSU Assistant Professor of Law. White talks about the use of civil disobedience and theatrics to raise public awareness of the plight of Mississippi sharecroppers. Knake talks about First Amendment rights, civil rights, and the limitations of the law in illuminating and solving social problems. Gabriel Dotto, director of the MSU Press convenes the symposium, welcomes presenters and audience, and explains the concept behind the event. Joan W. Howath, dean of the MSU College of Law and Eva L. Evans from the Michigan Humanities Council, offer welcoming remarks. Recording begins as Dotto is speaking.
- Date Issued:
- 2010-11-12T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Mississippi crisis, an address to the nation.
- Date Issued:
- 1962-09-30T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection