Professor. They spoke at the 2014 organization of american historians annual meeting in atlanta. This is about 90 minutes. S an hour and a half. Thank you all for being here. My name is jim campbell. I teach history at Stanford University. It is my privilege and my great pleasure to introduce todays panelists after which im going to shut up. A couple of ground rules. The reason that there are these blinding lights, this event is being recorded by c span, so one consequence of that is they have asked that we use the microphone for questions from the floor. Im afraid theres only one, so my hope would be that i hope we dont get one of these endless cues, but if you do have a question and are able, please come forward and speak into the microphone with your questions. If you are not able, well try to get the microphone to you. The speaker will speak, i hope, i expect quite briefly, and we will then throw this open into a conversation. It is as all of you know if youve been watching your c
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Bob moses was just 25 when he began his lifelong commitment to civil rights in mississippi for the student nonviolent coordinating committee. He was the architect of the. Ummer object project. He is prominently featured in freedom summer. Moses is also the recipient of the Macarthur Jesus genius grant. Conversation our looking at a clip from freedom summer. We hope to send in upwards of 1000 students all over the country who will engage in Community Center programs and in designed toogram open up mississippi to the country. Us fromoses joins boston. Its an honor to have you on this program. Somethingstart with that always struck me as interesting given that i was born in mississippi. When you are in mississippi the rest of america doesnt seem real and when you are in the rest of america mississippi doesnt seem real. Know what you meant by that. Unpack that for me. Mississippi during the congressional second cong
Launch an offensive against the city of baqubah less than 40 miles from baghdad. We will speak to professor juan cole of the university of michigan. He just wrote a piece titled dont trust the bombers on iraq shock and awe never works. Then 50 years after freedom summer, Voting Rights are under attack again in the south. They have attacked early voting, making it harder to vote with voter id laws. Every one of those reforms voter repression laws and tactics have the same effect of driving down the black vote. We will speak to former naacp president ben jealous on true south voters of color in the black belt 50 years after after freedom summer. And on the First Anniversary of the death of Rolling Stone reporter Michael Hastings, his widow publishes the novel she found on his computer after he died in a fiery car crash. It is a scathing critique of the news media today called the last magazine. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace re
Career. And at 10 on after words, qaz is city war tang looks back at the history of money. And we conclude our prime time programming at 11 p. M. Eastern with joe becker detailing the legal strategies and battles in recent years for marriage equality. That all happens tonight on cspan2s booktv. Next on booktv, actor danny glover is joined by Kathleen Cleaver and brian jones to talk about the black Power Movement. The Panel Discussed key participants in the Movement Like stockily Carmichael Stokely carmichael, angela davis, you would bridge cleaver, bobby seale and huey p. Newton. This is about an hour and ten minutes. [applause] good evening, and welcome. Thank you so much, everyone, for coming. This is an amazing house that we have here this evening. And needless to say, i am thrilled and honored to be able to partake in this Amazing Group of people that we have here. My name is michelle materre, i am a media studies and film professor here at the new school, and i do teach about thin
His great grandfather in fact was a founder of new africa, an all black colony established in the mississippi delta in the 1880s. If you know where to look urk still see a road sign. After his freshman year at howard, he got on a bus to go to a civil rights training meeting in houston, texas. Stopped off in jackson, and basically never left. As dory ladner says, he got gamed. Charlie would work as a snik organizers chiefly in Sunflower County in the delta. He would in 1964 be one of the primary architects of the mississippi summer project, though he was also someone who opposed the project. It was, im sure many of you have seen this document, this was charlie who wrote the prospectus for the freedom schools, schools intended in his words to fill an intellectual and create a vacuum in the lives of young negro mississippianss and so get them to articulate their own demands and questions. Hes remained an activist in the decade first and he has also worked as a journalist for National Publ