Little Caesars: Local Power in America

BackStory

Education, History

4.5 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2016

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

As the presidential candidates continue their contentious path to the White House, it’s easy to overlook what’s happening at the local level. For this episode of BackStory, the Guys take a break from the race for the White House and examine local power brokers; from big city political bosses and small town sheriffs to some of the social reformers who’ve shaped their communities from the ground up.

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0:00.0	This is backstory.
0:02.0	This is backstory.
0:03.0	I'm Ed Ayers.
0:04.0	Earlier this month, Chicago Mayor Rama Manuel endorsed Hillary Clinton for president.
0:09.6	Bernie Sanders responded by thanking Manuel for endorsing his rival.
0:14.4	As a CNN analyst, put it,
0:16.4	Bernie Sanders has decided to run against the Manuel as much as Hillary.
0:20.4	Proving once again that all politics is local.
0:24.0	One of Emmanuel's predecessors, Mayor Richard J. Daley, not only promoted John F. Kennedy
0:29.0	for president in 1960, he shaped the very social geography of the windy city.
0:34.9	He wanted the neighborhoods to remain intact because the neighborhoods were turning out a
0:38.7	big vote for the machine.
0:40.8	If there were integration, who knows what would happen?
0:43.3	Today on backstory, how local power brokers have shaped American history, including coroners
0:48.3	in the colonial era and women in 19th century Boston.
0:52.2	They saw garbage in the street, really sick kids, and they wanted to make things better.
0:57.6	A history of local power today on backstory.
1:02.3	Major funding for backstory is provided by the Shia Khan Foundation, the National Endowment
1:06.8	for the Humanities, the Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation, and the Arthur
1:11.4	Vining Davis Foundations.
1:15.1	From the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, this is backstory with the American History
1:22.1	Guys.
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