traditional, southern co op , this is your contest. i'm kidding.he only one judging you is margin right there. make sure you have your numbers displayed. all right. when you are ready. two sides. the style of dance from our northern plains, our southern plains. kiowa, ajibwe, blackfeet, lakota. this is a side step. ♪ boys and men, stand by. once again, put your hands together for our women's no. traditional southern claw -- northern traditional southern claw. this style of dance, before our dances would start, they would call upon the grass dancers to come out, stomp that grass down. usually, it was about chest high. in order for our other dancers to dance. when you are ready, make them dance. that is your style, boys. dance hard. dance hard. ♪ this style of dance coming to us from the north. one of the most competitive styles of dance. all right, one more time, our men's and boys' grass dancers. good dancing. all right. calling into the arena, our jingle dress dancers, make your way into the arena. all ages. michele,

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advice now and some support from civil rights pioneers, like reverend joseph lowery, the co-founder of the southernan leadership conference says the occupy protests are just the beginning. >> the people who hold the apparatus of power, the people who control the commerce and finance, they need to listen, because it's -- it's a forewarning of much more serious things to come. >> now the significance here of having men like reverend joseph lowery, reverend jesse jackson, ambassador andrew young, the city of atlanta all a major part of the civil rights movement. the protesters respect just getting a history lesson here but practical lessons in nonviolent demonstration. our george howell with that. >> reporter: we have seen police clash with protesters across the country but in the cradle of the civil rights movement, it is a different story. >> everywhere we walk in this neighborhood is in the steps of dr. king a tapped is big shadows. >> reporter: in the heart of the south where images like these from the civil rights era are still fresh in the minds of some, occupy protester tim franzen says the sta

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performed research at the carter library as well as at the southern labor archives, he suggested that we reach out to them to see if we could co-sponsor the event. so, again, many thanks to the carter library for providing tonight's venue. and now to introduce joseph. b joseph a.m. mccartin is a historian of the u.s. labor movement and 20th century u.s. social and political history. he received his ph from the state university of new york at binghamton. he has been an associate professor of history at georgetown since 1999. for the last two years he's directed the initiative for labor and the working poor. the struggle for industrial democracy and the origins of modern american labor relations won the phillip taft award. he has been the recipient of grants and fellowships from the national endowment for the humanities, the woodrow wilson international center for scholars and the charles bourne center at harvard united states. his essays have been published in such publications as the new republic, "the new york times" and journal of american history, among others. his current research explores the impact of public sector labor