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and then there are stories like william murray's. and so i think you really can't understand one without understanding the other. and it's some of parts of the book that i think make that the most clearer are sections about, like elsie lacks, because you see these sort of parallel tracks or stories that happen, right? so i think most people are now familiar with the story. henrietta, a black woman from baltimore, her cervical cancer cells are taken from her by doctors at johns hopkins, become this immortal and invaluable line that continues to be used by doctors all over the place. today in the family only recently was able to get some from that at the very moment that that is happening henrietta and she's starting to suffer. she sends her daughter elsie brownsville. elsie she is unable to speak. she has mostly communicates in what the family describes, sort of chirps and murmurs. she's described as an idiot medical paperwork at that time and as having epilepsy. and so she goes to council. and while her mother's cells are being taken
and then there are stories like william murray's. and so i think you really can't understand one without understanding the other. and it's some of parts of the book that i think make that the most clearer are sections about, like elsie lacks, because you see these sort of parallel tracks or stories that happen, right? so i think most people are now familiar with the story. henrietta, a black woman from baltimore, her cervical cancer cells are taken from her by doctors at johns hopkins, become...
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william murray and the murray family is subjected to that.tand his breakdown and his family's decision to send him to place like this without understanding what was going on to a black family in baltimore. this man is educator at a time when people are writing in the paper and writing medical and social science journals that black people don't deserve education, that they are inferior, that they'll never be able tokx learn. and he's showing up to work every day, fighting against this. and he is, according to his own, being burnt out and exhausted by it and trying to raise his own kids, to have self-worth and self-confidence in world that keeps telling them they don't deserve any. he's exhausted by it. his wife dies in front of him. he's a widowed and left alone. and you know, all of the in these same years baltimo is passing some aggressive of aggressive laws like the first segregation ordinances that still like the color lines were created in the 19 tens still exist in many ways in cities like annapolis and and so you need to know all of tha
william murray and the murray family is subjected to that.tand his breakdown and his family's decision to send him to place like this without understanding what was going on to a black family in baltimore. this man is educator at a time when people are writing in the paper and writing medical and social science journals that black people don't deserve education, that they are inferior, that they'll never be able tokx learn. and he's showing up to work every day, fighting against this. and he...
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william murray, a future governor, governor of oklahoma, said of the state's constitutional convention. it is an entirely false notion that the -- can rise to the equal of the white man. not long after murray speech, the state showed a show to segregate train cars, even phone booths in tulsa, interracial baseball games were banned. harper hateful rhetoric and dehumanizing laws inevitably lead to violence and so it was in these united states during the 19 tens. lynchings became regular occurrence across the deep south and its appendage. oklahoma race riots spread across the country during a period so bloody became known the red summer. the violence seem to be creeping closer to green greenwood with each passing year and the nearby town of wagner, when a black woman was lynched, hanged on main street. the local white press declared that the lynching gave the community a peaceful and helpful appearance. now we're going to imagine. i want you to imagine they were back on greenwood avenue. it's may 31st, 1921. the streets are once again torn with people, but the energy is different. fear, a
william murray, a future governor, governor of oklahoma, said of the state's constitutional convention. it is an entirely false notion that the -- can rise to the equal of the white man. not long after murray speech, the state showed a show to segregate train cars, even phone booths in tulsa, interracial baseball games were banned. harper hateful rhetoric and dehumanizing laws inevitably lead to violence and so it was in these united states during the 19 tens. lynchings became regular...
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the brief that leads to we've come to know today is title nine legislation and constance baker motley william hastily other individuals. that are associated with houston and the howard university school of law houston is significant among other things, he's responsible for creating what becomes known as the civil rights lawyer is group and cadre of individuals that will use american constitutional law to fundamentally change racial segregation and dismantle racial segregation in. america so let's talk a little about charles hamilton houston and the of jim crow. now there is a there's this idea on some scholars history that of us are sort of born for a purpose we're born we're not born accidentally, but born to meet and to respond to some challenge in our lives. and that definitely seems to be the case with charles hamilton houston. houston is born in 1895, in d.c. he's born a middle class african-american family. his father is a lawyer by training, father graduated from howard university school of law. at this time african american lawyer's late century, late 1800s, even american lawyers didn
the brief that leads to we've come to know today is title nine legislation and constance baker motley william hastily other individuals. that are associated with houston and the howard university school of law houston is significant among other things, he's responsible for creating what becomes known as the civil rights lawyer is group and cadre of individuals that will use american constitutional law to fundamentally change racial segregation and dismantle racial segregation in. america so...
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. >> but they need to improve all in william's face. the pictures in william's face. to play at will? >> well, it's looking unlikely, i would say. i mean, nine days he has left july, july. the first is when wimbledon is underway. he would like to say goodbye because he had his most famous days there, but he's having surgery today on his back. on his back, he had a scan, two days ago. he made the decision yesterday to go under the knife, steven said. earlier on he said, i'm not i'm not sure if it would be that invasive. we don't know. >> i mean, you would think not if you were thinking of turning it around in nine days, but maybe, maybe privately. >> he's he doesn't think he can do it, but he wants to just maybe keep keep up. >> but he's still he could still play >> but he's still he could still play in the olympics. >> possibly. yeah. i mean i mean the olympics would be great as well because he's, you know, he he played he won a gold medal at london. >> but that's at roland—garros isn't it. which isn't it's not the same. >> it's clay court which is clay court, clay co
. >> but they need to improve all in william's face. the pictures in william's face. to play at will? >> well, it's looking unlikely, i would say. i mean, nine days he has left july, july. the first is when wimbledon is underway. he would like to say goodbye because he had his most famous days there, but he's having surgery today on his back. on his back, he had a scan, two days ago. he made the decision yesterday to go under the knife, steven said. earlier on he said, i'm not i'm...