Explore our nations past. As a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Good evening and welcome to the third installment of cspans contend series. We look at Williams Jennings bryant. What better way to introduce to you the man than hearing directly from him. Heres a portion of the speech that he delivered at the Democratic National convention back in 1896. Its commonly referred to as the cross of gold speech which led directly to his first run at the white house at the age of 36. We do not come as aggressors. Our war is not a war of conflict. We are fighting into our homes, our families and prosperity. We have petitions, and our petitions have been scorned. We treaties and our treaties have been disregarded. We have begged and they have mocked when our calamity came. We beg no longer. We entreat no more. We petition no more. We defy them. We go forth confident that we shall win. The words of William Jennings bryan coming to you from his home in nebraska. I
The cross of gold speech. It was from his first run at the white house. We do not come as aggressors. Our war is not a war of conquest. We are fighting in defense of our families and prosperity. We have traditions and our traditions have been scorned. We have entreaties, and our entreaties have been disregarded. We have begged and they have balked when our calamity came. We beg no longer. We entreat no more. We petition no more. We defy them. We go forth confident that we shall win. The words of William Jennings bryan. We are coming to you from his home and office in the state capital of nebraska. It is commonly called fairview, because it gave you a fair view of the land. William Jennings Bryan and his wife moved here in 1902. It is now part of the brian g h Medical Center. We are coming to you from the first floor. His study is just below us. He did much of his writing and entertaining here in this house. We welcome our guest, a professor of history at Georgetown University. He also
Africanamericans in the u. S. Posted by the Manhattan Institute, hosted by the Manhattan Institute, this is two hours. I think we are ready to get started. I want to thank everyone for joining us today. Riley, im ason senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and i would like to welcome everyone to our symposium, which is called prospects for black america. Dean ball,ke to thank i want togton and thank them for their hard work. The idea is to bring people from different points of view about addressing racial problems in america. You will be hearing from liberals, conservatives, but most importantly, you will hear from people who have given serious thought to these issues. Everyone here is here to engage. There are people who are not afraid to touch third rails. Tois not because we want promote for the sake provoke for e being provocative, it is that we do not want to shy away from addressing the difficult and complicated questions. Was washington goodell washington sedenzel washington w
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Good morning again. Good morning again. Were going to continue with our program. Our panel is called culture and family, but i think we could use that as a point of did he part ture. I think culture and family could be considered one answer to the problem of African American poverty and its persistent. And im going to ask our panel to reflect broadly on that with some focus on cultural and family but not exclusively on that. We have a very distinguished panel, on my far left on my mar left is gene dattel who is the author of a powerful new book called reckoning with race, americas failure. He grew up with the mississippi delta and has been surrounded by africanamerican poverty his whole life and is perplexed by it. Anthony bradley from Kings College say distinguished faculty member there and the author of the director of the center for human flower risching, chair of the religious and Theological Studies Program and the author of the book blook and tired liber brating black theology. A