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Evenyearsold being in buffalo new york. It was my first time in that elevator, my first time seeing an escalator and it was so different and it had an impact on me because some people working together, living together. Host why did you make that trip . Guest i went there to spend part of the summer with another brother of my mother and some of my First Cousins. Host and other date in your history, september 2, 1986 democratic primary. Guest that was the reduction day in atlanta in the fifth Congressional District of georgia. It was a very difficult race with a closed and the differing mind by the name of julian bond who we had worked together in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee with a wonderful, wonderful friend. He served in the state house, the state senate, to come to congress and i wanted to come to congress, and it was a race that i never wanted to repeat like that. Host and you won . Guest i did prevail. And some people thought they didnt have a chance and didnt have
Nonfiction authors and books every weekend on cspan2. Here is a a lock at books being published this week. Host introduce you to somebody on the bus with us. This is the u. S. Poet. What is it a u. S. Poet lawyer rate . What do they do . Guest the job is simple. Bring poetry to a wider audience across the country. The only official duties i have are to open the literary season at the library of congress in the fall by giving a reading. A closing lecture in may to end the literary season, and to choose the two poets or the one poet in some years, who is to receive the foip. And introduce that poet for reading at the library. It host do you gate salary . Guest there is a siphon that comes with it. Its not funded by the american public. I think theres an endowment that does that. It host what is the scholarship that you refer to . Guest the fellowship. It just recognizes an american poet who is doing extraordinary work. Host how do you become the u. S. Poet . Are you a poet . Guest well,
I thought that thats the answer. There are more women in politics and in around in power things would change. So i called my editor and she basically said okay. All of us in the workingclass are subjected to punitive taxes, being ignored by the elite media, not getting any kind of specialinterest help in washington like the fat cats get to the we are all in the same boat no matter what color we are and that is the problem. As a young child i faced segregation and Racial Discrimination and i didnt like it. My mother, my father, grandparents, great grandparents , why Racial Discrimination . And they would say thats the way it is. Dont get in trouble. Dont get in the way. But in 1955 when i was in the tenth grade, 15yearsold i heard of rosa parks. I heard the voice of Martin Luther king jr. On the radio and the words of dr. King inspired me to find a way to get in the way. In 1956, my brothers and sisters and some of my cousins went down to the Public Library in a little town in alabama t
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