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Professor Jeffries is the brother of House Democratic leader, Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York.

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Well, good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Gilda Lairman Teacher Symposium

course on the U.S. Civil Rights Movement.

I'm Dr. Asanquami Jeffries, your instructor for the course, and it is a delight and honor

to be with you this morning and for the next couple of days.

Civil rights history is a little bit different when we think about some of the other subjects that we teach in school. Because when we think about civil rights

history, we think about something. All all of our students all of us have

something come to mind when we think about the civil rights movement and usually

what comes to mind is some simplified version of what actually happened so as

educators when we enter into the classroom, we have to make

sure that there is some unlearning before there is some learning. Julian Bond was a civil rights activist, a student at Morehouse College in the early 1960s,

was a part of the student movement in the Atlanta University Center in 1960,

joins the student nonviolent coordinating committee, SNCC, serves and works in their sort of communications division, if you will,

will run for the state legislature in 1966 in Georgia, has denied being able to take his seat because of

statements that he had made and SNCC had made coming out against the Vietnam War.

He would go on to remain a lifelong activist, would eventually become the chairman of the board of the NAACP,

and a professor at the University of Virginia,

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