woolworth's. my thought was, when my son is get back to the counter, you're safer and you got to keep that sitting going because there was a mob outside. and at the counter, you, the press right there. following things right behind you and your buddies on either side of. you. so safety. safety. you're in your eighth decade of life. yeah, i've been around a while. been around a while. your parents were from the south? oh, my mother was. your mother was. that is another story. it is another story. i'll tell that if you'd like. well, let me get through. at least the first question. okay. i cut people off a lot. you know. okay, here we go. your great grandparents had been enslavers. your mother was a staunch segregationist. oh, definitely. so your story is sort of unexpected. fascinating story. how a white from the south became icon and a leader in the civil rights movement. there were a few of us white girls who knew what to do. yeah. so i want to go back to oak oconee county. oconee. not the fancy r

and woolworths of course becomes an enormous corporation and at one point the werewolf tower was -- woolworths tower was the tallest building in new york. that is what walmart is as well nowadays. the sun on the woolworths empire but when you go into walmart you are probably in a rural place, there is probably not another shopping opportunity for miles in any direction. but the stock comes from china, and good --, vietnam, and so on -- china, bangladesh, vietnam, and so on. peter: militarization, industrialization, corporatization, and the fourth pillar that you write about is suburbanization. suburban development is built on thbasic irony, suburbanites left the city aw by the promise of more space, less traffic, fewer people, lower crime rate, and all the rest, many seem resentful as the suburbs filled with more and more development. steven: there is a bumper sticker i sort of quote in the book that says, asphalt, the final front. i think it summarizes nicely what happens, it is the last step in our process of what has happened to american agriculture , by and large, i would say come overwhel

. >> for a woolworth's. >> i would go for a woolworth's. >> i would go for a woolworth's. >> mix >> ohix everything. bring it back to childhood then. >> no, just one woolworth. just one. preferably the one in yeovil. because that's the one that i knew when i was growing up. then just go up. and then you would just go and would take your children and you would take your children or and you'd go, or your step kids and you'd go, look, yes. look, children. yes. >> used they used to be all >> used to, they used to be all over the place. >> that massive book of posters just. poster book. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> it would seeing high >> it would be nice seeing high street remained in years >> it would be nice seeing high st|come, remained in years >> it would be nice seeing high st|come, because led in years >> it would be nice seeing high st|come, because id in years >> it would be nice seeing high st|come, because i believe rs >> it would be nice seeing high st|come, because i believe that to come, because i believe that it's disappear. and it's going to disappear. and young won't see young chi

and this is a picture of them going to a woolworth's in durham, carolina. the student, the person on the right for fryer, y'all to our right is a student blessed name streeter and so he was a student at central university at this time they're accosted and a journalist, black journalist, a photographer for the local the carolina times is arrested and roughed up. right. so this is significant, speaks to the violence of the front as well. right. so this is happening in february of 1960. and he lit history. he's a very important to the activists. and so there was that initial kind of february kind of trying to organize student activists of different campuses but then the i could see considered to be one of the key organizer of civil rights movement ella baker. she in and says we should have youth organition right so ella baker she has roles in the icp the sdlc snick. despite battling sexism in these organization tions, she s a proponent of organization or bottom up leadership so basically like we don't need that leadeat the top. we need multiple leaders at the

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that bigfoot is just a undiscovered hominid species and there's the what sometimes called the wu woolworth's who believe that bigfoot might have a more supernatural or paranormal provenance. and and then, you know, there's huge gray area shades of belief between those two poles. but but but in my experience, the vast majority fall into the first camp. most bigfoot is are conversant in woo and. they sort of are open to ideas. but i think i know some where in their minds that it's ridiculous and and want it to be to not be that, you know, because of that they're like once open that door, then what possible, you know. so and i think most big footers at least the ones that i met, want to keep their feet firmly planted, the real world. so but again, it's like, yeah, it's like that's part of the allure is entertain possibility and mystery and definitely feel that, you know we must be governed by reason, rationality and verifiable fact. i mean, if you just as much as possible now we all believe in irrational stuff, whether we realize it or not, but as much as it's possible. i think you have to try

president ford would fin >> jacques i changed the name ye >> i mean, it president ford was a guy in woolworth to directed gunre gs gummy japanese aircraft that he his life had been on the line and his whole career was about making tough decisions and not doing it for political oses. i was in the oval and everywhere with him almost every day his presidency he. >> saw him an action >> yeah. and he made a very difficult decision to pardon richard nixon before nixon would be indicted in the tergate scandal. that at the time was a very unpopular among it probly cost him reelection wh hor election and when he ran in 1976 former president trump faces 88 criminal charges, 44 of them are federal.t's unclear if any of the federal cases will happen before the election've heard pele talk about the edor joe biden. to pardon donald trump because it would be in the best interest of the country. do you think do you see a parallel bween what four did or no? >> that's a really great question. not really. no. i think that richard nixon at at point he had been impeached it was going to be impeached, but it never

take them a week earlier, i cwill say is schools are notvhat i will say is schools are not like woolworth's can't pick and choose when want to be in choose when you want to be in school. want to take your school. if you want to take your children out of school, fine. be at don't be in at home school. don't be in a school curriculum. think school curriculum. but i think that being school, if you're that being in school, if you're taking kids out. martin, i'm sorry, disruptive for sorry, but it's disruptive for other , disruptive for other students, disruptive for teachers. i think teachers. so i think unfortunately, has to unfortunately, there has to be a line saying, line drawn. and i'm saying, yeah, kids of yeah, you take kids out of school time, you're gonna school in tum time, you're gonna have that slap on the have to get that slap on the fine. >> $- e- fine. >> bob , bobby, it's e bob , bobby, it's >> but bob, bobby, it's all fair and teachers and well for teachers to lecturers holidays . you lecturers about holidays. you get of the year off. the get a third of the year off. the only p