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you talk about going to woolworths.al woolworths, which was known as the five and 10 store because a lot of items were actually sold forfive or 10 cents, we'd often walk up and down the aisles and when the clerks weren't looking, we try to snatch something. not clerks, clarks. we never called it stealing, but we called it taking. taking, it was a softer, nicer word. let's go taking. let's go taking, correct. and one sunday afternoon, i tempted fate. there in a special display of roy rogers t—shirts was a pearl—handled toy replica of a roy rogers six shooter. it was the most thrilling thing i had ever seen. yeah. i picked it up, i was nearly out the door when hands grabbed me by the scruff of my neck and pulled me back into the store. "a great big man announced, i'm the manager and i'm sick "and tired of you kids stealing. in a blinding flash, an idea popped into my head, i reached into my sweater, pulled out the toy gun and shouted "get back or i'll blow your head off." "get back or i'll blow your head off" — with this
you talk about going to woolworths.al woolworths, which was known as the five and 10 store because a lot of items were actually sold forfive or 10 cents, we'd often walk up and down the aisles and when the clerks weren't looking, we try to snatch something. not clerks, clarks. we never called it stealing, but we called it taking. taking, it was a softer, nicer word. let's go taking. let's go taking, correct. and one sunday afternoon, i tempted fate. there in a special display of roy rogers...
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work was very visible such as holidays and simone songs hansbury's plays and moody's encounter at woolworths as we talked about last time. there are full contribution to the civil rights struggle is not always widely appreciated as those who have used the power of words. they are also a time together the expanding protest of our time and of their era interestingly too all of them spent some time in new york city echoing a theme first articulated in harlem renaissance. novelist, jesse redmond fawcett's work plumb bun as you remember of new york as a place to start over to live a freer fuller life these five resisting the oppressive expectations of their time that they face because of their race and gender especially in small towns thus chose to move in or near new york, especially when they were young. the causes are group embraced were essential for bringing rights for all people and include such areas as ending discrimination what we might call today expanding equity and inclusion underlining the equal treatment under law that the 14th amendment guaranteed to all after the civil war ended s
work was very visible such as holidays and simone songs hansbury's plays and moody's encounter at woolworths as we talked about last time. there are full contribution to the civil rights struggle is not always widely appreciated as those who have used the power of words. they are also a time together the expanding protest of our time and of their era interestingly too all of them spent some time in new york city echoing a theme first articulated in harlem renaissance. novelist, jesse redmond...
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work was very visible such as holidays and simone songs hansbury's plays and moody's encounter at woolworths as we talked about last time. there are full contribution to the civil rights struggle is not always widely appreciated as those who have used the power of words. they are also a thread lying together the expanding protest of our time and of their era interestingly too all of them spent some time in new york city echoing a theme first articulated in harlem renaissance. novelist, jesse redmond fawcett's work plum bun as you remember of new york as a place to start over to live a freer fuller life these five resisting the oppressive expectations of their time that they face because of their race and gender especially in small towns thus chose to move in or near new york, especially when they were young. the causes our group embraced were essential for bringing rights for all people and include such areas as ending discrimination what we might call today expanding equity and inclusion underlining the equal treatment under law that the 14th amendment guaranteed to all after the civil war
work was very visible such as holidays and simone songs hansbury's plays and moody's encounter at woolworths as we talked about last time. there are full contribution to the civil rights struggle is not always widely appreciated as those who have used the power of words. they are also a thread lying together the expanding protest of our time and of their era interestingly too all of them spent some time in new york city echoing a theme first articulated in harlem renaissance. novelist, jesse...
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woolworth, rexall, would see all this iconic images and they are very much codified which these were where it happened. the pine bluff, arkansas movement of 62 -- 63, people are beaten by the police trying to do a protest of a segregated mcdonald's. mcdonald's was part of the north carolina citizens and durham and memphis. all of these places people are acting against a mcdonald's. it is not within the frame. sometimes i wonder, because they'd grafted themselves onto the narrative of after king's death we did the socially responsible thing by recruiting black franchise owners they work themselves out of that history and kept on doing these things. they were very early supporter of the martin luther king jr. holiday. i think that rights them out of that. while there's a lot of criticism of mcdonald's practices through labor practices, today there's a lot of stuff about the environment in the 80s and 90s, i find that so strange. [inaudible] >> any other questions i know i mentioned a lot of these creature comforts, universal healthcare necessary for society kind of like you said the in
woolworth, rexall, would see all this iconic images and they are very much codified which these were where it happened. the pine bluff, arkansas movement of 62 -- 63, people are beaten by the police trying to do a protest of a segregated mcdonald's. mcdonald's was part of the north carolina citizens and durham and memphis. all of these places people are acting against a mcdonald's. it is not within the frame. sometimes i wonder, because they'd grafted themselves onto the narrative of after...
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. >> fw woolworth was born, he had two sisters, 5 and 10. >> reporter: not as a news man, as an inhouse-comedianere five months and the next thing i knew i was fired and i got the job on full house. >> as beloved widow with girls, he soon was a household name. >> girls i'm taking you out for father/daughter day. >> reporter: two years later he was the first host of "america's funniest home videos." and two prime time shows. when you look back, it's like you had multiple careers. >> i'm having them right now. >> reporter: new generations heard only his voice as the narrorater on "how i met your mother," and a recurring danny tanner on "fuller house." >> bob saget transended generations so older comics and younger comics and everyone in the middle loved bob saget, off stage, saget worked tirelessly to raise attention and millions dollars to fight scleroderma after losing his sister to the rare tissue disease. >> humor is the only way my family sur vivesurvived. it's so healthy to laugh and i'm out there doing it and i know it's healing for people. >> that's the overnight news for this tuesday, rep
. >> fw woolworth was born, he had two sisters, 5 and 10. >> reporter: not as a news man, as an inhouse-comedianere five months and the next thing i knew i was fired and i got the job on full house. >> as beloved widow with girls, he soon was a household name. >> girls i'm taking you out for father/daughter day. >> reporter: two years later he was the first host of "america's funniest home videos." and two prime time shows. when you look back, it's like...
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you could have told us 100 years ago that sears would be out of business or woolworths.nment breaking up companies now? >> a lot of these meat manufacturering companies are under federal investigation. so there's something that feels below bar happening that i can't speak to in great depth. i do want to push us to suggest -- i think i heard this from gianno. this is a subject that all americans could really unite around. when you see corporations and they're making millions and millions of dollars, paying their staff, whether it be flight attendants on the people on the assembly lines making below poverty level wages, something is not adding up here. it's hard for me to believe this is a policy issue. >> charles: here's -- we have a minute to go, gianno. i want you to answer that in to the degree. we have big news today. we learned 4.5 million people quit their jobs because three enjoying one of the biggest wage increases over. my whole thing is with the average person out there, would they prefer the big wage increases or take the money and give it to the federal govern
you could have told us 100 years ago that sears would be out of business or woolworths.nment breaking up companies now? >> a lot of these meat manufacturering companies are under federal investigation. so there's something that feels below bar happening that i can't speak to in great depth. i do want to push us to suggest -- i think i heard this from gianno. this is a subject that all americans could really unite around. when you see corporations and they're making millions and millions...