It looks at nasas role in civil rights in the years before the Civil Rights Act pass. Before the Civil Rights Act passed discrimination was not against of law. It was legal to say no, you cannot use this toilet, you are black or you cannot come into this restaurant, you are black and that is an important distinction that will become even more important as we talk about the achievements of some of the people in this book. We will be talking about the rules put in place by the tonedy administration address discrimination and how they were implemented by nasa and its contractors. We will be talking about the people whose lives were touched those rules. Our books tell the story of men most of them who came to work at the program during the civil some were nasa employees and some of them worked for contractors. President kennedy was forced into dealing with outerspace at the same time and forced into dealing with civil rights. These are not things he talked about during the campaign. He did
Larry looks at the life of the attorney general. Thats a look at some of the current nonfiction bestsellers according to the boston globe. Many of these authors have appeared or will be appearing on book tv and you can watch them on our website booktv. Org. Good evening. Welcome. Just a few quick administrative notes, please turn off your cell phones if you havent already. Will we get to the q a part of the session, cspan book tv is here filming and we are filming also for the youtube channel, we would appreciate it if you have a question to find your way to that microphone there so not only everybody watching can hear you but jean, whos 83, can also hear you. Please be considerate of everybody else. Before you come up to get your books signed, our staff asked that you fold up the chairs that your seating and in. This must be a crowd of hardcore president ial history enthusiast. Either that or some of you are just looking for a distraction from the president ial history happening befor
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Thursday afternoon when he says unexpectedly he was assaulted. The time to distract me and then just punched me. Reporter in video captured by the companys security camera. Two young men thought to be teenagers are seen coming together on the sidewalk walking up the folly on the fork truck. Asked me for the time which i pulled out my cell phone out of my pocket and told them the time. Reporter without warning as i started pulling away the other one reached in and just punched me in the face. Reporter he then jumps off the fork truck and wrestles one of the teenager to the ground. Well wait for the police and tell them what happened. Reporter did he say anything . He said i didnt do anything wrong. Reporter the suspect who actually threw the punch then runs away. They could have picked anybody. They could have they circled and i think chose me personally for who i was. Reporter next door in wingate park where men workout, theres surprise at the attack. These young dudes doing wild stuff