From dr. Matthew dumont. Matt is prolific author and historian of history and civil rights and the Sherman Fairchild distinguished professor history at dartmouth. He he received his ph. D. From brown university, and hell be discussing most recent book, half american the epic story of africanamericans fighting in World War Two at home and abroad. Now to, join this this conversation this discussion is dr. Marcus cox marcus is a fellow with the jenny craig institute. And is also currently the dean of Fayetteville State University right outside beautiful fort north carolina. Oh the. Previously many of you know him from town here where hes associate dean of graduate studies xavier and a graduate ph. D. From northwestern an and an expert on africanamerican military history. And so its great to have these two amazing scholars and comrades on the stage with us today. And with that, marcus, ill turn it over to you. And sir, you much. Thank you so much. Thank you everybody for being here. Thank
Can i alert my colleagues that are here to introduce individuals normally we would turn to you and let you do that. But this meeting is has some more controversy than most hearings have so this is the way were going to handle it. Im going to make an Opening Statement, a little longer than usual. Senator feinstein will make a statement thats longer than usual. Then because of the two states that are involved, and for different reasons, but coming to the same conclusion, normally we dont have members speak, but i felt i ought to give the courtesy to both senator kennedy and senator said he wanted to speak about the controversy and his nominee. Then im going to turn to senator franken and senator franken will have up to five minutes s that okay . Youre going to introduce people, but i would like to get the controversial statements out of the way first. That makes sense. Okay. Congratulations to all the nominees and to your families and everybodys welcome at the committee. Two weeks ago, i
Good evening ladies and gentlemen as director of the library we have professor of history at the university of North Carolina nominated twice for the Pulitzer Prize in the author one of the great books about the civil war talking about the importance of religion of american politics leading up to the civil war with the decline of evangelical religions after the civil war with the post reconstruction era and jim crow. It is a great book that refrains for race and religion in america. In his new book when government was good that may seem like a distant past we heard about the place of government and with executive leadership it is a book about truman and eisenhower with those who came after with the truman president ial library we know a lot about truman and his executive leadership with form policy with the great decisionmaking without domestic policy and in particular with race and those inequalities that we are very concerned with today but to use those executive powers of the presid
[applause] mayor coleman let me just say one quick thing about thurgood, how important he was to our country, for africanamericans, for those who wanted to go to law school africanamericans who wanted to go to law school, i was a part of that generation who looked up to him, believed in him, who was inspired by him. That i too someday could go to law school and i could someday become a lawyer. There is a whole generation of people just like me who have gone on to do that because of the bravery and the courage of Thurgood Marshall. So tonight, we are here gathered here this evening and i have view this really has the intersection of history and the future. What to i mean by that . The intersection of history and the future . Well, we are in Lincoln Theater. In this theater, this was the only place where black folks could come and get entertained in a theater because they couldnt go downtown. They would come right here. And this theater was nearly demolished. A wrecking ball almost tore
And youve got women posting shows. Doing his and hers things. And in all sports, you know . Basketball, football, baseball. You name it. So because something is new or something doesnt fit my mold, it doesnt make it bad. I think cam, his energy has actually been good for the game. I probably wouldnt do some of the things that he does but as i said earlier, i know mylane. Cam knows his lane. His lane is my lane, my lane isnt his. His lane isnt warren moons lane or Doug Williams lane but the fact is, his coaches are comfortable with him, his teammates arecomfortable with him and at the end of the day , thats all that matters. Host it looks like were out of time and this has been a great conversation. Dig deep, seven truths to finding the strength within. I enjoyed reading it and i enjoyed talking to you before i hope people will go by and gain some wisdom for my experiences. Host . Cspan, created by americas Cable Television companies is brought you as a Public Service by your cable or s