Episode #31,Civil Rights, “The Song of Mud”, Mobile AL Memorial Park, Motorcycles and Memorials, On Being an Intern, Dazzle Camouflage, Peach Pits and more…

Summary: <br> Highlights<br> <br> Civil rights march in NYC 100 years ago |@ 01:15 <br> Draft dodging, bobbing and weaving |@ 03:15<br> Passchendaele the battle of the  MUD |@ 08:45 <br> “The Song of Mud” by Mary Borden |@ 12:40<br> The Storyteller and the Historian |@ 17:00<br> On being an intern at the US WW1 Centennial Commission |@ 23:00<br> Event Picks of the week |@ 27:00<br> 100C/100M Profile - Memorial Park in Mobile Alabama |@ 29:00<br> Motorcycles and Memorials |@ 34:15 <br> Working on America’s WW1 Memorial |@ 41:30<br> Dazzle Camouflage and Peach Pits |@ 42:40<br> <br> And more...<br> Opening<br> Welcome to World War 1 centennial News - It’s about WW1 news 100 years ago this week  - and it’s about WW1 News NOW - news and updates about the centennial and the commemoration.<br> Today is August 2nd, 2017 and this week we joined by <br> Mike Shuster from the great war project blog, <br> The Storyteller and the Historian, Richard Rubin and Jonathan Bratten  - Paul Bergholzer a sociology student from Catholic university<br> Cammie Israel, from the 100 Cities / 100 Memorials project in Mobile, Alabama - <br> and Lamar Veatch, Retired State Librarian at the Georgia Public Library Service.<br> WW1 Centennial News is brought to you by the U.S. World War I Centennial Commission and the Pritzker Military Museum and Library. I’m Theo Mayer - the Chief Technologist for the World War One Centennial Commission and your host. <br> World War One THEN <br> 100 Year Ago This Week<br> [SOUND TRANSITION]<br> Our wayback machine has transported us back 100 year and It’s the week of July 29rd, 1917<br> The Silent Protest Parade<br> Earlier this month July 2, 1917 simmering labor tensions between white and black workers explodes in St Louis.<br> For 24 hours, white mobs indiscriminately stab, shoot and lynch anyone with black skin. Men, women, the elderly, the disabled even children – horrifyingly --- no one is spared. Homes are torched and occupants shot down as they attempt to flee. Police and White militiamen stand idly by as the carnage unfolds. The death toll is as high as 200 and the city’s surviving 6,000 black residents become refugees.<br> In protest, the NAACP the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People organizes a large demonstration in New York City.<br> This week, 26 days later, during the saturday afternoon of July 28, nearly 10,000 African-Americans march down Fifth Avenue, in silence, protesting racial violence and white supremacy in the United States.<br> [SOUND EFFECT]<br> The only sounds are those of muffled drums, the shuffling of feet and the gentle sobs of some of the estimated 20,000 onlookers. The women and children are all wearing white. The men are dressed in black.<br> New York City, and the nation, has never before witnessed such a remarkable scene.<br> The “Silent Protest Parade,” as it come to be known, is the first mass African-American demonstration of its kind and marks a watershed moment in the history of the upcoming civil rights movement.  Just one generation after the end of slavery, this somber and powerful event conveys both a mournful dignity and stern determination for the black community to stand up for the rights of its citizens.<br> For those who always believed that the birth of the civil rights movement was in 60’s - it’s foundation was actually forged 100 years ago this week during the war that changed the world!<br>  <br> Links:<br> <a href="https://theconversation.com/100-years-ago-african-americans-marched-down-5th-avenue-to-declare-that-black-lives-matter-81427">https://theconversation.com/100-years-ago-african-americans-marched-down-5th-avenue-to-declare-that-black-lives-matter-81427</a><br>  <br> <a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/heres-weve-learned-mass-protests-100-years-silent-parade/">http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/heres-weve-learned-mass-protests-100-years-silent-parade/</a>