i have a few announcements. please silence your cell phones. if you are taking pictures want to encourage you to go over social media. and then we ll have an author signing outside in the connector and then as well as upstairs. finally b will have a brief question and answer session and then to come down to the microphone and that if you have difficulty accessing the microphone. now be well turned things over to our speaker. jess - - joseph rosenblum is an award-winning author and editorial writer for the boston globe and the documentary series on pbs. and as an editor s feature for inc. magazine please join me to welcome. [applause] thank you for the introduction. thank you to the public library for sponsoring this event. also to c-span books. can everyone hear me okay? no and my particular gratitude to the columnist for the boston globe who will be joining me later in the program who still has questions for me and then we ll take them from the audience. . . . . so, on
In his april, 1960 three, letter from birmingham jail, Martin Luther king described the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism, an argument that people have the moral responsibility to break unjust laws. Cspan visited the replica of reverend kings jail cell. Were in the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute in front of a replica of dr. Martin luther kings jail cell, the cell that he wrote the letter from birmingham jail in 1963. A white minister issued a statement published in the local newspapers that call dr. Kings demonstrations unwise and untimely. Dr. King responded to that with the letter from birmingham jail. Decided invoters april 1963 to change the form of government. Hes running for mayor and loses the election and the very next day after this run off april 2, then he starts the marches. , and of people felt birmingham and throughout the country, that the timing of the marches were suspect. Dr. King could have waited to see what changes the New Birmingham City Government mig
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Two women who in many ways could not have been more different. One was establishment, one was grassroots. One was upwardly mobile, incredibly well educated, and the other one came from a background filled with such deprivation that to describe it as poor seems too grand. One was an obvious leader, the other was an unlikely and late in life luminary. Both of them changed the course of history, and neither one has been given their due. Hopefully these two biographies will help change that. Tamiko brown megan is 18 at the Harvard Institute and a history professor at Harvard University during her earlier book is courage to dissent the book we are going to be talking about today is civil rights queen. Kate Clifford Larson is a distinguished scholar whose earlier books include a biography of Harriet Tubman and the assassins accomplice. Today we will be talking about walk with me, a biography of Fannie Lou Hamer. Im going to assume many of you are like me. Maybe you have heard a little bit ab
Incredibly well educated, and the other one came from a background filled with such deprivation that to describe it as poor seems too grand. One was an obvious leader, the other was an unlikely and late in life luminary. Both of them changed the course of history, and neither one has been given their due. Hopefully these two biographies will help change that. Tamiko brown megan is 18 at the Harvard Institute and a history professor at Harvard University during her earlier book is courage to dissent the book we are going to be talking about today is civil rights queen. Kate Clifford Larson is a distinguished scholar whose earlier books include a biography of Harriet Tubman and the assassins accomplice. Today we will be talking about walk with me, a biography of Fannie Lou Hamer. Im going to assume many of you are like me. Maybe you have heard a little bit about Fannie Lou Hamer. Maybe you have not heard anything about constance modly. Im hoping will introduce us to the subjects of these