[applause] outside the books are for sale. We hope you will pick up a copy. Thank you. Thank you everybody for attending and thanks to mr. Banks and ms. Demery. Copies of finding the dragon lady are on sale now and ms. Demery will be signing books just outside of the auditorium. Thanks everyone. Enjoy the lit fest. [inaudible conversations] up next, peniel joseph. He talks about the misconceptions on the Civil Rights Movement and obamas place in race relation. He is the author or editor of five books including waiting til the midnight hour a narrative history of black power in america, dark days, bright nights and his 2014 release stokely a life. Host who was kwame ture . He was born stokely in trinidad and he became a civil rights activist and is most famous for poplarizing the term black power on june 16th 1966 in greenwood, mississippi. He becomes this icon of the late 1960s. Stokely carmichael is going to be the most controversial black activist since malcolmx. He is friends with M
[applause] it is good to be at the mississippi delta. May be so much change. To talk about this book so hiding from police on this particular street and had even more memories of city police here and this is what much of the book was about of those strong people of creed would that does not include i tell the story and i want doing here but the green family the legendary family and laura who ran the sheriff in town exceptionally strong people and part of the Southern Movement is the people that protect us. I will get back to that thought. I am often asked with this particular book when you read the book you will see this is much more than a book about guns. I have been a working reporter for most of my life. I primarily has been a Foreign Affairs reporter. To have established national geographic. With the Internet News Service concern i recommend you could, that all africa is the only way to keep up during the day this is what is happening in nigeria and one of the things i learned alm
Posted by the American Folklife Center at the library of congress. It is about an hour. I want to express our collective gratitude to the men and women who engaged in the struggle as members of sncc or naacp half a century ago and continue to keep the fires burning in the present day. We had the privilege of interviewing several of those remarkable individuals who joined the initiative known as the civil rights history project. We are indebted to them in ways that have not been fully acknowledged or articulated. I know some panelists are here. We have one or two other members also part of the freedom struggle. Mulhollandand joe joan mulholland. The recordings are now available online. At halftime [laughter] at lunchtime, the sports metaphors, oozing out of every pore. At lunchtime, as we say in the library, you can check out some of the interviews. They are all live and available to you. If you have not done so, please avail yourself of that. It is great to have one of our lead intervi
There are 200 cash prizes for students and teachers totaling 100,000. For a list of rules, go to studentcam. Org. Next on American History tv, maria varela, a former member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, shares her experiences from the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. This was the keynote address hosted by the American Folklife Center at the library of congress. It is about an hour. I want to express our collective gratitude to the men and women who engaged in the struggle as members of sncc or naacp half a century ago and continue to keep the fires burning in the present day. We had the privilege of interviewing several of those remarkable individuals who joined the initiative known as the civil rights history project. We are indebted to them in ways that have not been fully acknowledged or articulated. I know some panelists are here. We have one or two other members also part of the freedom struggle. Joan mulholland. The recordings are now available online. At h
Teacher and thank you for hearing me. Good evening commissioners. It has become apparent that in this city where the member of the Community Steps up to the plate in an attempt to promote the betterment of black and brown children, that persons position is compromised. The present facilitator of the citywide tutorial program, miss marshall, worked in the bay view when no one else would. After almost 30 years of dedicated service, miss marshall still has to fight to maintain her position . Whats going on folks . As African American students still struggle as was i think di kated in an earlier statistical presentation, people like miss marshall are being moved, are pushed away from the community that needs her. As i stated two weeks ago, she was unfairly evaluated and i declare that her evaluation must be null and void and the director of the access and equality must be removed and are disciplined accordingly. Thank you. Good evening everyone. I am here in support of my name is Carolyn M