Honor Taylor Branch. Taylor is best known for his trillage of the Civil Rights Movement, america in the king years, the first volume parting the waters won the Pulitzer Prize in 1989. Two successive volumes and still remain essential text to any understanding of the role that Martin Luther king played in transforming our nation. Along the way, taylor won an in addition to the pults administer prize and many other prizes. I think he would agree that this extraordinary career really began in 1970 when he took a very low paid job with Charlie Peters, the legendary founder and editor of the Washington Monthly, a very small circulation political opinion and reporting magazine which still exists. I strongly suspect that taylor learned his trade as a journalist and book author while working for peters for three years. A few years later i went through a similar process myself but working for victor navaski at the nation magazine here in new york. Both of us arguably became buy og gras fers aft
Warning to thank politics and prose and cspan for thinking inform of the series to cover. You dont gate these kind of people in this kind of room without getting the kind of coverage. Want to thank you for being here tonight for our fifth installment. I want you to feel free. Feel welcome, feel at home. Come to the microphone, ask a question, intelligent, civil, and we will answer, and i want to, without further adieu, introduce this great, great panel. Were going to do some work from their career, and well get into the discussion, and i will start off with someone who i have such respect for, such admiration, such love for, dr. Mary Frances Berry. She has a list of things she has done. She has been jailed for fighting against apartheid in south africa. The list goes on and on. She is also the author of the book, five dollars and a pork chop, from which and the corruption corruption in democracy. She has a new book coming out, history teaches us to [applause] next to dr. Mary francesbe
Wilmer, recalls her personal and professional connection to east germany. This is tonight on cspan2s, booktv. [inaudible conversations]. I think were going to go ahead and get started. Thank you, everybody, for coming. A quick show of hands, this is your first time to book culture of columbus. Oh, welcome to the family. 20 years ago this space was the endicott book seller and it was lost to the Upper West Side along with many other wonderful bookstores over the years, but almost two years ago we took the plunge and opened our third location here. Were so happy to be a space that is able to host just farber and this wonderful panel to talk about the James Baldwin, James Baldwin, escape from america. Exile in province. We have many up front and pick up two or three so we can stay in this neighborhood as a community space. Im trying to do this very elegantly. So first let me introduce our panelists. Carol weinstein is the mother of, a mother of danielle baldwin, also on the panel. Partner
Stevenson in a moment. Contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Im joined tonight by bryan stevenson, the founder and director of the equal justice and author of just mercy. Its about to become a film starring michael b. Jordan. Congratulations on that. Thank you. Thank you. Let me start by asking when you first became aware of this beyond vietnam speech given in this city 50 years ago tomorrow. Its interesting, i wasnt aware of it, i didnt read it until i started practicing in montgomery, alabama. My office was down the street from dr. Kings church, so i would visit there often. Just collecting some of the things he would preach on and he would talk about, i encountered his work in the 1960s after the passage of the civil rights act. It was so impressive to me that dr. King never rested on his laurels. He was not satisfied after the passing of the voters rights. He knew there was still working to done. Thats when i found the speech that he gave at riverside
Stevenson in a moment. Contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Im joined tonight by bryan stevenson, the founder and director of the equal justice and author of just mercy. Its about to become a film starring michael b. Jordan. Congratulations on that. Thank you. Thank you. Let me start by asking when you first became aware of this beyond vietnam speech given in this city 50 years ago tomorrow. Its interesting, i wasnt aware of it, i didnt read it until i started practicing in montgomery, alabama. My office was down the street from dr. Kings church, so i would visit there often. Just collecting some of the things he would preach on and he would talk about, i encountered his work in the 1960s after the passage of the civil rights act. It was so impressive to me that dr. King never rested on his laurels. He was not satisfied after the passing of the voters rights. He knew there was still working to done. Thats when i found the speech that he gave at riverside