Time, but glad to be here. Im also chair of the brickle avenue literary society. Turn your cell phones off, please. Thank you all for coming. Lets thank our sponsors. We need to do that in every session, because they are soan important to the success of the fair. So big thanks to knight foundation, ohl, the bachelor foundation, the degroot foundation. As always, thank you to all the friends of the book fair. We hope everybody whos in thisr room will be a friend by next year so you can enjoy all thee activities that are available for friends during the year. We thank our volunteers, we thank the staff of the book fair and super big thanks to miamidade college. [applause] okay, thanks so all. [applause] we have a big crowd, so let me start by introducing our authors introducer. She has been, talk about good examples, a friend of the Miami Book Fair since the very first year. How many of you are founding book fair friends . Anybody else been around as long as marcia . A few. Okay, good. A
Or segregated area . When we moved in, my father was military man, career military, after serving 20 plus years in the army he moved the family to columbus, ohio, because he wanted my brother to go to ohio state and when we got there, there was a house in oakland park my mother wanted, the Real Estate Agent said you people dont live there. I show you where you people live. We bought a house in the neighborhood by the time it was integrated, within two years there was only one white family left. So my elementally and junior high were almost predominantly black. Then i was bused in high school. Carol anderson, professor at emery, ought of this book, the unspoken truth of our racial divide. We have a longer program on booktv. Org with her from ferguson, missouri we taped if youre interested. Type her name into our web suite. Type in Carol Anderson book, you will see the full program. Thank you for being on booktv. Thank you so much. Our coverage from miami continues. We want to introduce
At Emery University and i teach human rights and u. S. Rights and u. S. Cold war policy. How long have you been doing that. Oh, i have been teaching since 1996. So wow, two decades. Where did you go up . I grew up in columbus, ohio. I grew up in columbus, ohio, i saw the policies there. It is not just the south necessarily in your view. Oh, no, no. Did you go up in init greated or segregated area . When we moved in, my father was military man, career military, after serving 20 plus years in the army he moved the family to columbus, ohio, because he wanted my brother to go to ohio state and when we got there, there was a house in oakland park my mother wanted, the Real Estate Agent said you people dont live there. I show you where you people live. We bought a house in the neighborhood by the time it was integrated, within two years there was only one white family left. So my elementally and junior high were almost predominantly black. Then i was bused in high school. Carol anderson, pro
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