There is more to go. So obama is quite a challenging figure and in that sense we have done more than we really ever have. Baratunde thurston, how to be black is the name of the book and this is book tv on cspan2. Next on book tv, Henry Gallagher recalls his assignment as officer in charge of the security detail for James Meredith, the first africanamerican admitted to the university of mississippi in september of 1962. This is about 40 minutes. Thank you ralph and john andd mmy gratitude to the library ot congresshe for hosting the even. I will try to put into 30 whnutes what happened to me 50 years ago with some reflection. H this is my tentative book event since the book was published in september and each event is different and each audience is different and your questions are different. I was a 233yearold arra tc Second Lieutenant from a Small Liberal Arts College in minnesota, sat down to mississippi along with 15 or 19,000 other soldiers to quell the right to put down the right.
Riot, quell the riot. I was not aware of where we were going because the county administration had put a clamp on disclosure. Not until we got to memphis were we aware of our mission. It was such a delicate, uncomfortable effort by our military, and as i often times say, it was an army out of place. It was not our mission. Military police sometimes had the mission to put down domestic disturbances, but they occurred once every hundred years or something to that effect. Clearly not the mission of the marine corps who were present that morning. 19,000 troops. Two units had been given advance notice of what they were doing, and they prepared for it in riot control. Why all of this for one africanamerican student who wanted to get an education at a Brand Name University its because the whole state was in an insurrection from the governors, from the statehouse itself down to the 11yearold who were throwing bricks at us in the street. It was total chaos, total mayhem. Even the mississippi Hi
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Next on booktv, Henry Gallagher recalls his assignment as officer in charge of the security detail for James Meredith, the first africanamerican admitted to the university of mississippi in september 1962. This is about 40 minutes. Thank you, john and my gratitude to the library of congress for hosting the event. I will try to put in 30 minutes what happened to me 50 years ago with some reflection. This is my tenth book event since the book was published in september and each event is different and each audience is different and your questions are different. I was a 233yearold arra tc Second Lieutenant from a Small Liberal Arts College in minnesota, sat down to mississippi along with 15 or 19,000 other soldiers to quell the right to put down the right. I was not aware of where we were going because the Kennedy Administration that put a clamp on public disclosure. Its not until we got to memphis that we were aware of our mission. It was such a delicate, uncomfortable effort. U. S. Milit