Good evening and welcome. Im can weinstein, resident and ceo of hunter and institute. For the condition of my voice. I really wanted to be here for the book forum for melanie kirkpatricks book thanksgiving, the holiday at the heart of the american experience. I want to thank our friends at the historic explorers club, especially the executive director and our good friend. I also want to thank the viewing audience on cspans book tv. Institute is a policy organization, we are based in washington dc. We are dedicated to voting u. S. National leadership for the sake of security, prosperity, and freedom. Most of our work is in the Public Policy space. Insecurity of work in asia. Isis,ked at fighting talked about trying to overcome the challenges of the iran deal. We this book is an outlier. We have to be thankful for many things. That isit is a book extraordinarily timely coming now at the end of what was by all accounts a very challenging election season. Whether you fell among those, i in
But she was the president of fact. Is supposed to be sure. Most americans didnt even kw about it. At the click here i see most americans dont know about it today. The Political Community in washington knew about the woman in the white house. Senator albert fall was enraged. We had petticoat government is and the Diplomatic Community in washington knew, the french ambassador to the United States reported back to paris that he was dealing with mademoiselle, president. Welcome to cincinnati on booktv. But the Time Warner Cable partners will spend the next hour explaining Literary History of the place nicknamed the queen city located on the ohio river. We will travel around the city to talk with local authors and its a rare book and manuscript collections. We begin the hour with the underground railroad and its contribution to send 90 in the country. On one level the book is about how the underground railroad can be viewed as they say make the argument is the first multiracial, multiethnic
She sits in the Domestic Violence court. She spent 10 years as a prosecutor. She is an adjunct professor of law. Before graduating from law school, she was a journalist in washington dc where she one copy number of prizes. Tonight, she will be speaking about Dorothy Ferebee, a civil rights activist. Although dr. Fairly grew up in virginia although dr. Dorothy ferebee grew up in virginia, she attended Simmons College. A number of you are from Simmons College. Thank you for coming. [laughter] she became the president of the National Council of negro women. She is Vice President s and congress. She was a household name, but today is almost forgotten. Discuss her will and her and a national context. Thank you for coming. [applause] that lovely for introduction. Can you all hear me . Ok. Thank you all for coming. On june 11, 1963, president kennedy appeared on National Television to ask congress to enact landmark civil rights legislation. Now remember, this was not the you have towhere fill
Africanamericans. Hard to be worse than the treatment of arvfricanamerican so then better. So Laura Michael and brooke at the beginning talk about, i think, sort of overall southern white perceptions of race. And brooke makes the argument both of them make the argument that this is an accurate depick of the way that whites perceived the way things went or slavery persisted. So again to it aagaagain not ba capturing that moment in time. They have a right to critique th that. Scarlet scarlets parents how historically accurate do you think they were. He was irish. Really irish. Knew to the south. The ieshiearish, especially in north were being seen as the lowest of the low just above africanamericans. How likely would it have been for him to own this huge plantation. Hes too rich but there are a number of scotts and irish immigrants who go to the upcountry part of the south, the back country south and are able to get land and in some cases are table table to attain slave i thought i rread
Films about slavery. Catherine clinton will be coming back to the United States this fall. Shes the author of numerous books about gender, race and the american civil war, including biographies and shes edited the diaries and memoirs of Suzi King Taylor and mary chestnut. Professor clinton serves on the advisory committees and the virginia ses quill centennial commission. Im imagining were going to hear about some of that experience today. John insgo is University Professor at the yooumpbunivers georgia. He is the coarticle thor of appalachian civil war. He is currently the editor of the new georgia enviek encyclopedia. The processor recently wrote a book in southern autobig ra fill and is currently working on a book on appalachia and film. Braen da steven son has receivabled as the chair of the department of history. She is author of the awardwinning monographs life in black and white, and the contested murder of latasha hardens. Her newest work, what is slavery, will be published by