Americas greatest independent bookstores. Thank you for saying that first of all. I will mention as one of the great independent bookstores we have shipping books all over the country or over the world or local we have in store pickup so tell me about this. I knew i wanted to write a book i had a lot of ideas so right to like this. Will write any others and if you do have lots of ideas in my head. I would also to the publisher and i was rejected by a lot of publishers but one came to me and his name was Stephen Power and without him this book would not have began because he was unheard of and actually edited my proposal and critiqued it and sent it back to me. That does not happen. He said if you write this. Will publish it. I said i have the stature to read the book. I just thought that to me it was such a heavy topic and people are so educated i didnt put myself in that category. He said you can do the book and i will hope you do it so i put together a draft sign to take this opportu
A 14yearold africanamerican youth from chicago who was lynched in particularly gruesome fashion while visiting an uncle in mississippi in 1955. Hes myrrh and the antilynching movement that followed set the stage for the Civil Rights Movement that we recognize today. Because generally they could not rely on Law Enforcement to protect them, because they understood that the lynchings occurring throughout the south were very deliberate campaigns to subjugate our black population, they were very deliberate campaigns started in the 1870s by the ku klux klan and carried on right up to the resent day through terrorism because they realize africanamericans mobilized their own efforts to combat the terror of lynching and the threat of racial violence through grassroots activism and the founding of integrated social justice organizations. During the period between the civil war and world war ii, thousands of africanamericans were lynched in the united states. Most in the south. But not entirely.
To covering live house coverage here on cspan as they gavel in eight bills today, including antilynching legislation. The speakr pro tempore the house will be in order. He prayer will be offere by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain onroy let us pray. Dear lord, we give you thanks foriving us another day. Use thismoment to be e reminded of your presence c1 tap the resoces needed by the members of this peos house to do their work as w as it upon those torn nation and upon the members of this assembly who struggle to see the shared hope for a Better Future in those withwhom they disagree. Fo many americans, the holy season of lent begins tomorrow d foreheads are marked this as men andwomen and as a reminder of your power to thrugh our failures all this day and through the week, may our representatives do teir best to find solutions to pressing issues facig our nation. Please hasten the day when justice and love shall dwell in the hearts of all peoples and rule the affairs of the nation
In limiting the amount of jews in america. This is about an hour. The u. S. Commission on civil rights comes to order at 1 30 pm on march 22, 2019. The meeting takes place of the Commission Headquarters located at 1331 pennsylvania Avenue Northwest washington dc, 20425. I am chair Catherine Lehman and the commissioners present in addition to me are vice chair goodson, commissioner kawasaki, commissioner harriet, commissioner crystal, commissioner yockey you are on the telephone, can you confirm . I am. Thank you. Quorum of the commissioners is present, Court Reporter present . I need a verbal yes for the Court Reporter. Thank you [ laughter ]. As the staff director present . Present. Thank you. I see commissioner dagley is joining us as well. Do i have motion to approve the agenda for this business meeting . So moved. Is there a second i second. Thank you. I begin the call for amendments but the one of my own, adding a discussion about the wyoming state advisory chair Committee Appoint
Thats a long story. Thats not something you can just blow off in a week. Come to find out what that means, and so long story short they got me into walter reed and the kind of came and went for years really trying to kill those stories of wounded warriors. What they were suffering, having performed their duty in our names or a war that was hateful. Thats an interesting balancing act because i try to keep both things alive in a script at the same time. A lot of the best cartooning is investigative. You snuck into Migrant Workers cant. Spin and tell us a little bit about that. I was doing an investigative piece on Migrant Workers who are building the branches of the western cultural institutions. Right now the guggenheim and nyu are all building branches on this place on the island in abu dhabi. Migrant labor has long been incredibly exploded in the gulf. A construction worker might make 200 a month to work for 12 hours a day doing brew physical labor. Is has long been an issue its been