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Lectures in History

Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy & Civil Rights

Lectures in History

C-SPAN

History, Politics, News

4.1696 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

University of South Carolina professor Patricia Sullivan taught a class about the 1960s Civil Rights movement and the involvement of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy. She described the racial unrest that took place in urban areas such as Watts and Detroit and the subsequent creation of the Kerner Commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This week, a lecture about Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, and Civil Rights.

0:08.1

University of South Carolina professor Patricia Sullivan teaches a class about the 1960s civil rights movement

0:14.2

and the involvement of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy.

0:17.9

The problem, as you know, he told Kennedy, is that ghetto dwellers are often invisible.

0:23.6

Thoughts unknown, words unheard, feelings unfelt.

0:27.6

Kennedy conceded that lack of understanding of the bitter conditions that existed in these

0:32.6

urban communities was deeply troubling and expressed deep concern to where this combinations of factors would lead the United States.

0:42.1

Professor Sullivan also describes the racial unrest that took place in urban areas such as Watts and Detroit

0:47.5

and the subsequent creation of the Kerner Commission.

0:53.9

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All right, so again, try to listen up, and we'll talk a little bit about it, see what you remember from there.

1:33.3

We are on the move for our liberation. We have been tired of trying to prove things to white people. We are tired of trying to prove things to white people.

1:45.0

We are tired of trying to explain to white people that we're not going to hurt them.

1:53.0

We are concerned with getting the things we want, the things that we have to have to be able to function. By 1967, the freedom movement was changing course.

2:04.6

Black people seek power, and they must have power to change the conditions

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