Arlington national cemetery. We continue our feature on richmond with a visit to black swan books, the local Antiquarian Book store. This is an example of a book that is not particularly valuable but is absolutely beautiful. And i love being able to sell books like this. We sometimes think oh, rare books. A rare bookshop, antiquarian. That sounds peculiar. Thats not for me and i want the bookshop in business to be for everybody. I want people to come in and say oh my god, look at that gorgeous book and opened it up and find that its 25 and they could probably afford it if they really want it and its not 2000. Thats a nice thing, i think. I wanted to go to Library School and be a rare books librarian. And i was not well received. Anyway, i got talked out of it. And i went to law school, i did that. I went into the ministry, i did that. Nothing was really going to work out for me so 20 years ago, i bought the inventory of a bookshop that was going out of business. And it turned out not t
Not only it was really affected by the brown versus board of education but it was actually one of five cases that was ruled into an umbrella brown case. The reason that, because it was part of the progress of brown b board of education was the one young woman named robert johns junior led a walkout to protest the conditions of her school in farmville virginia in 1965 and that walkout from the naacp attorney in richmond and they agreed to come meet with Barbara Johns but that decision led the naacp to take up the case and file a lawsuit on the of those students and that eventually made all the way to the Supreme Court. The brown versus board of education and it was student led case out of the five. And county leaders there were so stunned by the decision, as were virginia leaders and leaders across the south in the country. And i think Prince Edward county leaders felt particularly embarrassed and particularly nervous that they would be held up as an example and forced to integrate for
Quorum call mr. Burr mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from North Carolina. Mr. Burr mr. President i ask unanimous consent to vitiate the quorum call. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Burr i ask unanimous consent to speak as if in morning business. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Burr mr. President , i rise today to speak on the importance of fighting the zika virus and the urgency of being prepared for the full range of threats we may face, whether naturally occurring like zika or manmade. This may look to some like a grasshopper. Thats actually a mosquito. The question is prepared for all hazards . We still do not have answers to all the questions surrounding zika but we do know this. Zika is a very Serious Public Health threat and we need to act. Thats why i support the bluntmurray amendment to bolster our nations response to it. The c. D. C. Has indicated the mosquitoes responsible for spreading the virus could be found in a significant port
If you are tweeting today, use the hashtag gbf, and we need your feedback. Surveys are available at the tent and on our web site. Complete a survey for a chance to win a 100 visa gift card. Im pleased to introduce author kristen green. Shell be signing books immediately after the presentation, and copies of her books are on sale in the politics prose tent, a great partner for us this year. A quick word about buying books. Even though this is a free event, it does help the book festival if you buy books. The more books we sell at our event, the more publishers are willing to send their authors here to the book festival. Purchasing books from politics prose does benefit the local economy. It supports local jobs, supports our book festival. So if you enjoy the program and youre in a position to do so, please consider buying the authors books here today. So let me introduce kristen. Kristen green is an author who grew up in farmville, virginia, and thats important because its important to
Identified the cartels. [inaudible conversations] autho. Dionne, annette gordonreed, Juan Williams anymore. But first up christian green talks about her book, something must be done about Prince Edward county. Booktv on cspan2 live from the gaithersburg book festival. [inaudible conversations]. If you are tweeting today, use the hashtag gbf, and we need your feedback. Surveys are available at the tent and on our web site. Complete a survey for a chance to win a 100 visa gift card. Im pleased to introduce author kristen green. Shell be signing books immediately after the presentation, and copies of her books are on sale in the politics prose tent, a great partner for us this year. A quick word about buying books. Even though this is a free event, it does help the book festival if you buy books. The more books we sell at our event, the more publishers are willing to send their authors here to the book festival. Purchasing books from politics prose does benefit the local economy. It suppo