Youre watching booktv, nonfiction authors and books every weekend on cspan2. Booktvs Online Book Club selection for october is representative john lewis walking with the wind a memoir of the movement. As a young child, i tasted the bitter fruits of segregation and Racial Discrimination, and i didnt like it. I asked my mother and my father, my grandparents, my great grandparents, why segregation . Why Racial Discrimination . And they said, thats the way it is. Dont get in trouble. Dont get in the way. But in 955 when 1955 when i was in the tenth grade, 15 years old, i heard of rosa parks. I heard the voice of Martin Luther king jr. On the old radio, and the words of dr. King inspired me to find a way to get in the way. In 1956 with my brothers and sisters and is some of my first cousins, we went down to the Public Library in the little town of troy, alabama, trying to get library cards, trying to check some books out. And we were told by the librarian that the library was for whites onl
At www. Commonwealthclub. Org. It is my pleasure to introduce our distinguished speaker, a veteran of more than 20 years of Human Rights Research and activism, a professor of law at ucdavis, she grew up in algeria and the United States. She served as Legal Adviser at Amnesty International and has taught at rutgers and the university of michigan, she is widely published on the issues of fundamentalism and counterterrorism. Would you please welcome professor karima bennoune. [applause] thank you so much for being here today. Is an honor to be here. I thank the commonwealth for inviting me, for coordinating this event and for the lovely introduction. What i want to do today is share with you a few excerpts from my book your fatwa does not apply here Untold Stories from the fight against muslim fundamentalism and i want to explain as well why i wrote this book. It was a very big project. I interviewed about 300 people at muslim heritage, 30 muslim majority countries from afghanistan to mol
First of all, ive never been so excited to take a test, ever. You took the test yourself . Right. Which they didnt want me to do, which made me want to take it so much more. They never had a reporter take the test, and they sometimes reuse some of the questions. Theres a whole security question there. They dont want after rewrite all the questions every single time which makes sense. I had to sign an affidavit swearing i would never reveal the exact questions, and get it notarized which was nostalgic. And then i could take the test. Likely theres a bunch of questions they had made public so i could share some of those, but i went to this place and i sat they had some poor woman making sure wasnt going to cheat or anything, for hours she sat there. It was the weirdest thing. It is the only time in my life i took a standardized test where i had to actually slow down and do that thing that as adults sometimes dont do enough, thank. I had to say, wait wait, what is asking me . I had to com
very first shot at a battle of bunker hill during the revolutionary war. laura: how did you sweat snagged his weapon? he was a new hampshire midshipman. he confronted the tyranny of the british at the battle of bunker hill and so the symbolism of this musket is what makes it so phenomenal. the first shot first battle, first american army. june 14th, 7075. three days later, the battle of bunker hill, place at this last gift first that very first shot. it symbolizes that very beginning of the united states. it symbolizes the reason we have the second amendment and it symbolizes the role of the citizen soldier in creating and sustaining the freedom of the united states. laura: each person has a role and in the a duty to step up in that way he or she can. it is a wonderful example for all of us to follow. laura: i hope you liked