How important he was to our country, for africanamericans, for those who wanted to go to law school africanamericans who wanted to go to law school, i was a part of that generation who looked up to him, believed in him, who was inspired by him. That i too someday could go to law school and i could someday become a lawyer. There is a whole generation of people just like me who have gone on to do that because of the bravery and the courage of Thurgood Marshall. So tonight, we are here gathered here this evening and i have view this really has the intersection of history and the future. What to i mean by that . The intersection of history and the future . Well, we are in Lincoln Theater. In this theater, this was the only place where black folks could come and get entertained in a theater because they couldnt go downtown. They would come right here. And this theater was nearly demolished. Almost tore it down. And we saved it, renovated it and it is now one of the jewels of the city of col
All while writing this book and compiling the first catalog of riiss photograph. In the years it has taken to get these exhibitions mounted and this book published kb eed bonn worn ever single type of hat in the business and none of this could have been possible without her talent, energy and passion for her subject. With that, i will let bonnie take the stage. [ applause ] jacob rhys. Amy, thank you so much, im moved. Thank you very much. Welcome, everyone. Okay so im going to read pretty much lets see what we have to say here. The jacob im going repeat what amy did to just make sure that we understand how these different parts of this project fit together. The jacob riis exhibition now on view in the Jefferson Building at the library of congress is the result of a collaboration of the past several years between the library and the museum and the city of new york. The museums owns riiss photograph of new york city slums in the late 19th century. These photographs are the earliest evid
Okay . So make sure you do that. God bless you and thank you for everything you do for the republican party. As this event comes to a close, donald trump won the florida primary in march. Receiving more than a million vote, and he received all 99 republican delegates, from former mayor Rudy Giuliani spoke at the Republican Convention on monday night. Cspans Convention Coverage starts today live at 7 30 eastern. Scheduled to speak tonight are wisconsin Governor Scott walker, senators marco rubio and ted cruz, Newt Gingrich, and mike pence, making America First again is tonights convention theme. Again, live coverage starting at 7 30 eastern with a Preview Program at 6 00. Next, art history professor, curator, and author Bonnie Yochelson discusses and shows images from her boom jacob a. Riis, revealing new yorks other half a complete catalog of his photographs. She argues the danishborn riis was what an artist but used photography to expose poor Living Conditions and poverty in new york
But tv is also visiting buffalo, new york this weekend to for its literary sites and talk to its local authors. For complete schedule go to booktv. Org and you can fall was on social media, booktv is r. Twitter handle, you can call was on facebook as well, facebook. Com booktv. 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors every weekend on booktv, television for serious readers. We are kicking off the weekend with author wil haygood, he examines the life and career of Thurgood Marshall specifically five day Senate Hearing that resulted in his confirmation as the first africanamerican to serve on the Supreme Court. I want to acknowledge and thank cspan for being here tonight. [applause] let me just say one quick thing about thurgood, how important he was to our country, for africanamericans, for those who wanted to go to law school, African Americans who wanted to go to moscow. I was a part of that generation who looked up to him, who believed in him, who was inspired by him, but i too some
This is a special part of the one city, one book extravaganza. Thank you for being so wonderful to work with and allowing us to present this incredible panel today. I want to give a special thanks and remembrance to jim jones, junior, who was hopeful to be with us today. He sends you and the panelists all his best, but he was unable to participate to health reasons. We will send out some good love to jim. The California Historical society is deeply honored to hold the peoples temple collection. The California Historical society was chosen as the repository in 1983. We have worked tirelessly with many survivors and many historians and students whatonate to learn happened over the intervening years. We are proud to be the largest repository of archival materials relating to the peoples temple and jonestown, whether it be the digitization of separate films were over 50 different collections contained within the peoples temple broader collection, we are honored to steward it. We invite you