Test the panel about our history, as we are now in the Public Relations and much more world wide awareness of mississippi and some of our challenges just like every other issue around the world. Whether they would support removing the federate battle flag as a way to move in our future like you alluded to in your question. A good question, we we will see if people are willing to answer it. [laughter] if we can start with casey. Will after the social Movement Days he became a politician and went to the state legislature and one of the pieces of legislation that he worked to get past was the changing of the state flag. Well in the book, i say the boat to keep the flag was an early 21st century century insult to the black population of mississippi. Certainly i would support changing the flag in the first referendum of that along with all the other has professional historians in the state issued a press release that was read on the Capitol Steps endorsing a new flag. Thats my answer. Talk
Now, on your screen, is a live picture of the Old Supreme Court chamber in the Mississippi State capitol. Booktv is in jackson this weekend, covering the first annual mississippi book festival and well be back in just a couple of minutes with more live coverage. [inaudible conversations] one day late in the 2000s i was looking at this library and i asked myself, how did all this music actually get here . How is this actuaos [inaudible conversations] one day i asked myself how did they get here in the first place . How is this possible . To investigate and found the most astonishing thing. To be traced back to three people. One was brandenburg who had spent his life investigating the properties of the human ear steadying frequencies that were inaudible. And he came up with the md three encoder to shrink the compact disc by 90 percent. But he could not monetize the invention and was locked out and in desperation 1995 he posted it as a free public down the road to a his website within a c
Minutes will be back with more live coverage of the mississippi book festival. If you want to see the schedule of events go to book tv. Org or you can visit the mississippi book festival website at ms book festival. Com. First heres more book tvs visit to jackson last year. When i was a writer i think i said in the south that i take for what i know for granted and i feel like i am judged because my eyes have been cleaned by experience so i know where a. M. I have a base to see people moving in that clear lights were in jackson mississippi it is a National Historical landmark and wealthy was a writer she was born in 1909 and died in 2001. She was a writer who won just about every literary prize there was. She studied throughout the world really published in many languages, she wrote wrote short short stories. That was the form she most value. She had four collections of short stories in total in just over 50 stories of that collection. There is onenr writers beginning to look at the tim
And someone mentioned this earlier. Of the enormously important Voting Rights act. Ok . [applause] mr. Sanders what the Voting Rights act was about was to say the governors and legislatures all over this country, many in the south, will say sorry, all people will be able to vote regardless of the color of their skin. [applause] mr. Sanders that was a great step forward for democracy, but as many of you know, two years ago, the Supreme Court gutted a very important provision of the Voting Rights act. And what has happened is all over the country, not just to the south, but all over the country, governors and legislatures have done Everything Possible to suppress the vote, to deny people the right to vote, those people disagree with the powers that be. And they are unsafe. [applause] mr. Sanders you know, i take that kind of personally and i will tell you why. I have run for office in my own state many times. Sometimes i have lost. Most times i have won. But it had never occurred to me,
The move is by a pastor out of georgia but who was talking about that weve gotten so complacent in our churches that we, this is how he explains it. We go to the same place and time even though the last few times weve been going, the fish are not there but were going to do the same thing. Maybe we have to go to deeper waters to find the fish because the fish are moving. Its important for me not just as a christian but as a leader to figure out how to i findthe fish. And not expect for the fish to always be atthe same place or to always come to me. And it struck me as such a great read, very tiny book. So powerful and impactful. We have to figure out how to go into the deeper water and not be afraid to go out further. We want to stay on the shore, sometimes you got to go into deep water so thats why that one. Then james helper is my friend. Is probably one of the most intelligent people ive ever met. Hes a great historian and hes a great experience so i wanted to get some understanding