{"id":40106,"date":"2020-06-09T09:28:57","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T13:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=40106"},"modified":"2020-06-09T09:29:02","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T13:29:02","slug":"gc-cuny-keeps-the-conversation-going-activists-of-the-civil-rights-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2020\/06\/gc-cuny-keeps-the-conversation-going-activists-of-the-civil-rights-movement.html","title":{"rendered":"<strong>GC CUNY Keeps the Conversation Going:<\/strong><br> <em>Activists of the Civil Rights Movement<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>While events are postponed at&nbsp;<strong>The Graduate Center of the City University of New York&nbsp;<\/strong>in the heart of Manhattan, videos of recent public programs from its archive will be featured here for your enjoyment. The videos offer illuminating discussions in two main categories: insights into current events and conversations with leading writers and artists<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"38692\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/gc-presents-banner-750\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/GC-PRESENTS-banner-750.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"750,167\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"GC PRESENTS banner\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/GC-PRESENTS-banner-750.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/GC-PRESENTS-banner-750.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-38692\" width=\"341\" height=\"76\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/GC-PRESENTS-banner-750.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/GC-PRESENTS-banner-750-300x67.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This week, for a historical perspective on protest movements, The Graduate Center highlights a discussion with civil rights leaders of the &#8217;60s moderated by <strong>Carol Jenkins<\/strong>,&nbsp;host of&nbsp;<em>Black America<\/em>&nbsp;on CUNY-TV. Guests include <strong>Ruby Sales<\/strong>, a key figure in the Alabama \u201cFreedom Summer\u201d&nbsp;voter registration drive, and Reverend <strong>Herbert Daughtry<\/strong>, who played an instrumental role in the struggle for school desegregation. <strong>Clarence Taylor<\/strong>, professor of history at The&nbsp;Graduate Center and Baruch College, provides commentary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube aligncenter wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RENOsXwAe_Y?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption><em>Presented on March 20, 2017, by GC Public Programs with the Ph.D. Program in History and the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC). It was part of the series \u201cThe First 100 Days.\u201d<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">+ + +<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Previously: <em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2020\/06\/gc-cuny-keeps-the-conversation-going-lgbtq-pride-month-conversation-with-patrisse-cullors-co-founder-of-black-lives-matter.html\">LGBTQ Pride Month Conversation with Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter<\/a><\/em><\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, for a historical perspective on protest movements, The Graduate Center, CUNY, highlights  a discussion with civil rights leaders of the &#8217;60s from its video archive. The discussion is moderated by Carol Jenkins, host of Black America on CUNY-TV. Guests include Ruby Sales, a key figure in the Alabama \u201cFreedom Summer\u201d voter registration drive, and Reverend Herbert Daughtry, who played an instrumental role in the struggle for school desegregation. Clarence Taylor, professor of history at The Graduate Center and Baruch College, provides commentary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":39700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,20,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-40106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main","8":"category-media","9":"category-news","10":"category-political-culture","11":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/CUNY-GC-another-logo-.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-aqS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40106"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40122,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40106\/revisions\/40122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}