Detect crime. But when we be more fruitful to say that what we can measure because weve never been able to measure deterrence as long as theres been criminology. If we stop looking at different racial categories and looked across the offending which unfortunately book argues that racism in the, Justice System but then at eight spends a lot of time saying that it is okay to think of black people as it dangerous or potentially dangerous. Guest that is an unjustified statement. Find one place in that book where state that. I say repeatedly that there are the majority of people in these communities are lawabiding, they need support, they are trying to do the right thing by their children. It has nothing to do with impugning black people of somehow all criminal. If you cannot live by the statistics, then you as a criminologist i think are not serving your profession very well. The statistics are what they are. New york city again, 90 of all shootings, this is not [inaudible] host isnt that
History. This is a previously recorded program so we will not be taking phone calls. Tream amer host author will go haygood, this is a quote from you. I write about black men who heroically manifested themselves into mainstream america. I think my writing has been a relentless relentless pursuit to explain all of them. What is that mean . Guest well, i think that it is just been exciting to find these figures, like adam claim powell junior, sammy davis junior, Sugar Ray Robinson, Thurgood Marshall, who are not born into mainstream society, who by their enormous talent an enormous gift they put themselves into the fabric of this country by entertainment, politics, sports, or an Thurgood Marshalls case, the law. Law. In the case of the white house h of butler, extraordinarily Patriotic Service to his country these figures, when i look backn over the people have written about, they spend these amazing tales about society, culture, race, and i do not always know if they knew it when they w
Mississippi or their hometown in many instances. They were going overseas to fight for a cause. They were really behind it of the most part all of the ones that i found were willing to go and serve and in some cases people wonder why we had not been there before. I had one letter from an individual who fought with the Canadian Expeditionary forces. He went early went early because he thought it was a just cause. We always read about people saying, what if the south had won the civil war . What my question is, what if we had not entered that war . The world would be a vastly different place. As for its relevance today i would not have know this if id not been researching this book, again i was not aware of the consequences. All of this trouble in the middle east that we are having right now, so so many of those countries involved, involved after world war i. Promises were made after world war i and we do not look up to them. Conflict is still resulting today because of that. So if it is
Great depression, other gaps we had, and so i started plunging in the collection and i happened upon this is years ago Works Progress administration papers, the wpa in mississippi compiled county histories, and one of the topics was war. Block. They were. That meant there was a lot more out there. In addition to looking at private collection at world war ii started reading county newspapers from all around the state. I did want to try to cover all areas of the state. I have succeeded to some degree but actually not as much as id like to because some towns where i thought there would be letters to the editor about publication from the boys overseas were not any. There could be just to the addition of the paper to get a microfilm that was not the addition that had the letters. The different additions used to be. I do not know if early on if there are two or three editions of the paper. I did the best i could. I found some wonderful letters. I tried to have men who served, i found a lot o
Availableforsale outside today and they will all be signinggn copies of their work. You can find the schedule for when they will be available to sign in your program. I encourage you to visit with them. Thank you for doing this. This is wonderful and we are excited about it. Our moderator for the panel today is jerry is the author of Theodore Roosevelt in the assessment. Assassination. Thank you chris. Thank you all for choosing to come to the mississippi History Panel this afternoon. We are fortunate that we have authors for interesting books that cover the entire range of mississippi history from the earliest historical up to the late 20th century. We couldnt ask for a better panel of authors that a wider range of mississippi history tot talk about today. I would like to introduce the authors. To my far left is jim barnett. Retired director of Historic Properties division of the Mississippi Department of archives and history. Author of two books published by the University Press of m