Who is here tonight who came from salt lake, utah, his name is devery anderson. He is the author of the book, emmett till the murder that shock the world and propelled the Civil Rights Movement. It is one of the most definitive books on the subject. It took him 21 years from conception to completion to write this book. And i had the privilege to work on this case, emmett tills case, starting in 2002 with emmett tills mother, to work toward the reopening of the case to be reinvestigated and to have the United States congress to pass the emmett till unsolved civil rights crime act. That is now in the works being we authorized again. Congress is working on it right now. We expect in the next several weeks for that to pass. [applause] anderson is an editor at signature books in salt lake, utah, and is currently working on a masters degree in publishing at the George Washington university. He is the editor and coeditor of several books on mormon history. And in 2015, the University Press of
He is the author of the book till the murder that shocked the world and propelled the Civil Rights Movement. It is one of the most definitive on the subject. I have the privilege to work on tills case,mett starting in 2002, to work on the reopening of the case, and to have the United States Congress Passed the emmett till unsolved civil rights crime act. That is being reauthorized again. Congress is working on it right now. We expected next several weeks for that to pass. [applause] Devery Anderson is an editor at signature books in utah and is working on a masters degree in publishing at the George Washington university. He is the editor and coeditor of several books on mormon history, and in 2015, the University Press of mississippi book emmett till the murder that shocked the world and propelled the Civil Rights Movement. It will be the basis of a miniseries produced by jayz, will smith and others. He has spoken in the United States and the united kingdom. His research has resulted
Without but the murderer of medgar evers, bobby frank cherry, involved in the Birmingham Church bombing, they were all ultimately brought to justice in a series of striking and horrifying trials in in cases 30 and 40 years after the crimes and not nearly everyone who was responsible for these outrages was brought to justice but there were many people who were brought to justice, and when you say the question about enforcement, one of the striking things that president johnson said on the weekend he signed the bill, he called his old friend, governor John Connellly of texas. He said you dont want to talk about enforcing this law. That gets a mans hackles up. You want to be talking about obeying it because thats the right thing to do, and i thought that was a fascinating distinction and one that probably he learned at a very early age. We have time for one last question. Thank you for taking the question. Mr. Williams, thank you for the Howard University reference, at alumnus, i definite
The wait is over, the stars of fifty shades of grey in their first Live Television debut together. This morning, thursday, july 24th, 2014. From nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone, welcome to today 7 oompl a. M. On a thursday. Extremely busy. Lets jump to our top story, the disappearance of yet another special airliner, this time it is a flight in western africa, nbcs tom costello covers the investigation for us, what can you tell us . Reporter this is the nigerian airline, 116 crew members on board. An official said within the past hour the plane has crashed, but we den foe where or how they know that. It left about 1 17 a. M. Local time. It disappeared 15 minutes into the flight from radar. The transport minister says the plane asked to change routes because of a bad stand storm in the airline. The Airlines Says half the passengers were french. It was an older Mcdonald Douglas plane built in th
Good morning. Im melissa harrisperry. Today marked a very important anniversary in modern u. S. History. I want to take you back to what we were all watching five years ago today. And remind you how none of us knew just how deep our economic problems went. On the broadcast tonight, meltdown. The American Financial system is rocked to its foundation as top wall street institutions topple under a mountain of debt. Coming up tonight, how did it happen . Whats next, and how safe is your money . Meltdown, rocked to its foundation, mountain of debt our Financial System, as we knew it, was about to change forever. That day the Dow Jones Industrial average lost 504 points on the days trading, with the largest point drops in history. The nasdaq was down more than 81 points and the s p 500 was down more than 59. Was what was the cause of all of this . Take a look. All of this fallout from what happened last night in new york, as Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy protection just after midnight