John Henry

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1969: Background for Spiro Agnew's Speech

Dixie Democrats held convention to revolt against the civil rights plank of the Truman-Barkley ticket in Birmingham, Alabama.

Newsreel on the Founding of the States Rights Party -- Pay Especial Attention to Thurmond's explanation of the need for the party.

Nina Simone, Mississippi Goddamn (Live)

Compare to this later version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiaSXO9--OA&NR=1

James Howard Kunstler, 2004 TED Talk

Compare this vision of the relationship between space, planning, and citizenship to the vision described by the 1939 video on the city (see below).

The City, 1939

The Regional Planning Association of America's plea for community chaotic cities and urban sprawl. Directors: Ralph Steiner and Willard Van Dyke.

Although Lewis Mumford acted as an adviser on this film promoting the vision of suburban development in 1939, by 1961 Mumford had become a vehement critic of "mass suburbia" as a place where "nothing can happen spontaneously or autonomously." Why would his views change so much? How does this reflect on the changing attitudes regarding the relationships between community and citizenship in the mid-20th century?

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Part II

Washing-Machine "Emancipation"

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