At the mississippi book festival in jackson to talk about literacy and american libraries. [inaudible conversations] good morning everyone. Welcome to the third mississippi book festival. In the Mississippi Department of archives and history. Ive been asked to remind everyone that you are more than welcome to take photographs, post to social media, and the hash tag is literarylongparty. This is the conversation with the library of Congress Panel sponsored by the Mississippi Humanities Council and friends of the library. Mississippi is fortunate to have so strong a supporter as its literature, music and art as congressman greg harper. Now in his fifth term in the United States house of representatives, congressman harper chairs the committee on House Administration and serves on the House Committee on energy and commerce, the joint committee on printing and perhaps most pertinently for us here today, as the chair of the joint committee of the library of congress. Here is congressman gre
welcome to the whole story. i m anderson cooper on june 6 and 44, american canadian, british, and other allied forces launched the largest amphibious invasion in history. nearly 160,000 troops landed along five beaches in normandy, france. on what became known as d-day. it was a turning point in the war in europe, world war ii was fought against fascist regimes and germany and italy and imperial japan and the victory of democratic principles was hard. one, but 80 years have passed since d-day. and we thought it a good time to take a look at the state of our democracy today. over the next hour, cnn s jake tapper looks back at d-day sacrifices. so many young men made on those beaches in normandy that day. and what it means to us now what were we fighting for? we were locked in a battle with fascism. we re fighting for our freedom, for the freedom to think as we wish talked with they gave their life to preserve and protect that institutional. they died for our democracy. tha
Policy put in place 30 or 40 years ago are having an adverse effect today. You will hear from him next on book tv. [cheering and applause] thank you. Thank you everybody for coming out. Want to think politics and prose and busboys poets for hosting this event. Obviously there are too many people here who i love and have known for a long time to shout out everybody individually but i do want to shout out a couple of families and i want to shut out my pbs family. [applause] thank you. You taught me how to be a lawyer and i want to shout out to my maia angela family, you all taught me how to fight for children. And i want to give a shout to my sick family. [cheering and applause] i am wearing my button tonight and i am right now thinking of you all and im thinking of my dad and i know that he is here with us so i want to Start Talking about why i wrote this book. The first reason for writing this book is that i dont know if you all are like this or have friends like this but im the kind o
Shout out couple families. I want to shout out my pbs family who [applause] thank you. You all taught me how to be a lawyer. I want to shout out my family, David Domenici and in particular, and you all taught me how to fight for children. [applause] [cheering] and i want to give a shout out to my sn double c. Family. [applause] im wearing my button tonight and right now i am thinking of you all and of my data. And i know that he is here with us. [applause] i want to start by talking a little bit about why i wrote this book. The first reason for writing this book is that i dont know if you all are like this but im the kind of person who when i go to a movie and theres no black characters in the movie and then afterwards people are like what did you think about it and im like its pretty goo good but we were the black people, and i feel that way about our history as well so it was important for me to write a book that had africanamerican characters at the center of the narrative. This is
Department of archives and history. Ive been asked to remind everyone that youre more than welcome to take photographs. You can post to social media and the is this is the library of Congress Panel sponsored by the Mississippi Humanities Council and the first mississippi friends of the library. Mississippi is fortunate to have so strong a supporter of the literature, music and arts as congressman gregg harper. Now in his fifth term in the United States house of representatives, congressman harper cochairs the committee o House Administration serves on the house many of energy and commerce for joint micommittee printing and perhaps most importantly, for us today, the chair of the joint committee of the library of congress. Here is congressman gregg harper. [applause] thank you so much. What a great day for mississippi. The third annual mississippi book festival. All of the work that has been done, you cannot say not to all of the people that have participated. It is my honor to have in