Most important slave conspiracies in american history. He spoke about it at the university of richmond 20 years ago and hes going to be interviewed about that book later today for television. Most of dr. Egertons work has been on the subject of slave resistance, colonization and abolitionism during the American Revolution and Early National period. You will find a partial list of his publications in your program. His work deals with the intersection of race and politics. His most recent books deal with the mid19th century. Years of meteors, steven douglas, Abraham Lincoln and the election that brought on the civil war. And the wars of reconstruction, the brief violent history of americas most progressive era. His talk today will draw mostly from that final book and the title of his talk today is black activism in the wars of reconstruction. Ladies and gentlemen, doug egerton. Thank you. Good morning. Nice to be back in richmo. I have already learned at least one important lesson this m
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Now on booktv from the 13th annual National Book festival on the National Mall in washington, d. C. , Harvard University law professor kenneth mack presents his book representing the race the creation of the civil rightsr lawyer. Kennet thank you. Thank you to the library of congress for inviting me. And thank you to all of you for coming. What i would like to do today is talk a little bit about the bitt book, lived about how i came to little bit write it and ill be just ae to little bit also. And then we will tak e questions. Will take questions. So the book, the book is a biographical account of men and women to change america, men and women who helped transform america from a country that denied basic Citizenship Rights to a portion of its citizens based on race to the country we know today that embraces racial equality as one of its core principles. Is a collective biography of africanamericans who practiced law during the era of jim crow. Lawyers like Thurgood Marshall and lesser
Mack presents his book, representing threpresenting te creation of the civil rights lawyer. Well, thank you. Thank you to the library of congress for inviting me, and thank you to all of you for coming. What i would like to do today is talk little bit about the book, a little bit about how i came to write it, and ill read just a little but also and then we will take questions. So the book. The book is a biographical account of men and women who changed america. Men and women who helped transform america from a country that denied basic Citizenship Rights to a portion of its citizens based on race to the country that we know today that embraces racial equality as one of its core principles. Its a collective biography of a group of africanamerican civil rights lawyers who practice law during the era of jim crow. Lawyers like Thurgood Marshall and a number of lesserknown figures like los angeles lawyer laura miller, polly murray who has spent some of her career here in washington, d. C. ,
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