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Cell phones, please feel free to take any pictures and if you would like, we would love to have you send them to hashtag Literary Lawn Party or hashtag ms book festival. I would like to introduce you to the sponsor of our session today. Our sponsor today is humanities council, Mister Stewart rockoff is the director. [applause] thank you very much. Im here to do two things. One is to say the session is sponsored with the National Endowment for the humanities as part of their race initiative. And then pamela junior, was previously the director of the Smith Robertson museum down the street and several months ago, the director of the mississippi civil rights museum. Which will be open to the public and to the people of mississippi, december 9th, who better . Pamela. Thank you so much. I am a big fan of these folks. What i decided to do is ask individual questions than a general question. Very good. I will introduce everybody, Charles W Eagles and i was told your students would be in here.
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