By Samuel Warde on May 22, 2014
History, Racial Issues, Videos
History, Interviews, Law & Order, Racial Issues, Videos
Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan, joins Rev. Sharpton to reveal amazing details from his time as a card-carrying member of the KKK, including his conversations with David Duke and how he handled in person meetings. Stallworth was a detective with the Colorado Springs Police Department and was […]
By Samuel Warde on May 17, 2014
History, The Courts, Videos
History, The Courts, Videos
Brown vs Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. The decision overturned the Plessy vs Ferguson decision of 1896, which allowed state-sponsored segregation, insofar as it applied to […]
By Samuel Warde on May 13, 2014
History, Videos
History, Videos
Jacqueline Kennedy confided her innermost thoughts to an Irish priest that began when she was 21 years old and he was 73. The future first lady began writing the priest, Rev. Joseph Leonard, after meeting him during a visit to Ireland in 1950. NBC News reports that “Over the next 14 years, in a […]
By Samuel Warde on May 4, 2014
History, Videos
History, Sports, Videos
Footage of the 1966 and 1969 Mr. Universe competition has been published by British Canadian Pathé News. There are clips of Arnold Schwarzenegger shots are from from the 1966 New York Olympia and from the Mr. Universe contest in 1969 which Schwarzenegger won. One of the first competitions he won was the Junior Mr. Europe […]
By Samuel Warde on May 4, 2014
Videos
History, Scandals, Sports, Videos
Footage of the scandalous 1919 World Series game has been uncovered by British Canadian Pathé News. Below is an excerpt from Pathé News showing various baseball games between the Chicago White Sox and Cincinnati Reds in the 1919 World Series. The material is from the Dawson City Museum and Historical Society Collection, as well as […]