publishers marketplace and publishers plus. thank you. now a few interviews interviews from booktv s recent visit to georgetown university here in the nation s capital. talked with sheryll cashin about her book the agitator s daughter a memoir of four generations of one extraordinary african-american family. this is about 15 minutes. the agitators daughter is the name of the book and sheryll cashin city author and she is a professor of law at georgetown university. professor subbyte who is the agitator? my dad, dr. john cashin jr., who just passed this last year. what kind of an agitator was he? well, my dad founded an independent democratic party in alabama at a time when the regular democratic party was dominated by george wallace, the dixiecrat and despite he was two-time valedictorian, his ab mentation was and this was in the 60 s mind you, and early 70 s into his political party, so that alabamians could vote for lyndon johnson rather than george wallace an
regular democratic party was dominated by george wallace and the dixiecrats. and despite being a dentist and a two-time valedictorian, his advocation was agitation, and he poured hundreds of thousands of dollars of his own money this is in the 60s, mind you, 60s and early 70s into this political party so that alabamians could vote for lyndon johnson rather than george wallace and that the hundreds of thousands of newly-registered black voters would have people to vote for. could not just vote, but also run for office. and so that was his life s work, and he was very much committed to recapturing the greatness of african-americans in the terms of political participation. he was very steeped in the era of reconstruction because his grandfather had been a reconstruction legislator, and he grew up hearing about his grandfather, grandpa herschel, while he was coming of age in jim crow, and it radicalized him to be living under jim crow in alabama while hearing about the fac
too short a soyuz person to get caught on videotape providing those kind of instructions, but based on my work working with him in the marine corps, working within the army and air force and with division i football program, educating boys and men around preventing sexual violence and talk about masculinity, i know for well full well these are attitudes around the country. not just in the black communities but white and asian community s all over. it s a mass community problem and have been women for generations who have been working to address it and to get men to own up to our sexism, own a car sexual violence, own up to our battery and emotional assaults, and to do something about it. also pleading with me and to work as allies do not abuse of men s ally, but create some searching, to challenge people like to short. unit, who are espousing ideas that we produce violence against our girls and women. there s a co