orange bowl mvp. never played another game without using and things spiralled from there. into my 6th grade classroom and all i get as it pertains to a story is star threw away life for drugs and a big picture of my dad on the dallas morning news behind bars. that's the only story i get and it wasn't until i wrote this book that i saw that my dad would not have been the addict that i came to know if it wasn't for this moment of glory. do you see what i'm saying? so the football material is in part trying to use this sport, this game as almost like a test tube for the ways in which our structures and systems lead people to certain decisions. >> you write that yale was the loneliest place of all for you and yet, throughout the book, you're talking about being on the football team and having a sense of comradery with these gentlemen. helping lead young black men to their time on campus. being part of different student groups. that was that stemming from? >> i arrived at yale and i write in the book that i felt it was like, i felt a very clear sense that from black people on c

this was the orange bowl in miami. used the 60 -- 1962 cover. it was the best image we could show. was january.- that in february, this was an olympic year. if nothing else had occurred, there would be two major events for that year. the olympics and a presidential year. , both summerames and winter were held in the same year. coverou see here on the is peggy fleming. the only american to win a gold medal at that olympics. this was in the of amateur sports. cc, there is no apparel logo. sports. sports, the summer oftograph here in the final the first u.s. open. 1968, it was called the national championship. it was an amateur event. pro and it became known as the u.s. open, which is how we know it today. this is a photograph from that match. he would get a trophy but he could not keep the prize money because he still was an amateur. i like this quote on the label. what i like best about myself is my demeanor. i am seldom ruffled. was ash.ly civic sense for his of duty. he refused to play the south african open as a protest. inwas very much involved what would be that peaceful resist

i've seen them play in the orange bowl. you were a great third-quarter team. not the first half. when it got to be third-quarter, fourth-quarter didn't matter. i have seen it a number of times. now we are just entering the third quarter of the campaign. we will roll it up now. as far as complacency is incerned, if you liked duly somebody said humphrey is going 1948, to come back like truman did. well, i just don't believe it. matter of fact, a lot of things are different. it's one thing to give them hell. it is something else to give them humphrey. [applause] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] during the cold war the u.s. information agency produced a number of films promoting american democracy. next, autumn and cardboard narrated by actor lee marvin. this uses the california governor's race between ronald reagan and pat brown to show how every two years autumn is the season of campaigns and elections in the united states. ♪ >> october begins, the color in the competition.

i watched your teams and i've seen them play in the orange bowl, and you was a great third- quarter team, not the first half, but the third quarter. by the time we got to the third quarter, the fourth quarter didn't matter. we are just entering the third quarter of this campaign, and i'm going to remember what you did. we are going to roll it up and as far as complacency is concerned, people say it is going to be like do we in 1948, and somebody said humphrey is going to come back like truman did. i just don't believe it and as a matter of fact, a lot of things are different. [ applause ] >> our look at the 1960 presidential election continues in just a moment. >> i want to thank c-span for visiting new hampshire and new hampshire does democracy better than any other state. coming up in these midterm election, people are active and engaged and reading to vote on november 6, and the democrats are going to take control. >> there are many issues going on right now that i care about and one of them being healthcare policies. my husband is affected by healthcare policies, and if the democrats

orange massacre by nose who know about orangeburg massacre which is few people and what happened in 1968 february 1968 was -- that students on the campus of south carolina state college in orangeburg protested segregated bowling alley, and sellers was there, he was sort of his snick day he was part of the student nonviolent leader in the organization but by this time 1968 his leadership was waning and he was kind of sick and tired of it and he was looking to change his life. he thought he would go back to school and he thought he would come back home. he lived very nearby and denmark just about -- half hour away. and -- d and he didn't like the idea of the kids protesting the segregated bowling alley that was so 1962 you know and this is 1968 and it is black power time it is time to pox bigger and better and bigger fish to fry so he watched on margins as students protested this bowling alley became increasingly frustrated and this led on the third day to a terrible, very violent event on campus of the national guard has been called in. statee troopers have been called in town was on lock down and a group of students a large grouch students on campus unarmed were firedd upon with buck shot not bird shot but bu