Karen houppert. She is our guest on after words and interviewed by jenna green of the International Law journal. Host it is a pleasure to meet you. I really enjoyed your book, chasing gideon. I thought that we could start at the beginning. Who was the somewhat unlikely figure who made such an impact on history Clarence Earl gideon was an itinerary cap. Guest he broke into a pool hall and accused of stealing some change from the jukebox, a couple of beers come a couple of bottles of wine and arrested and brought to court there in florida. He approached the judge on the day of the trial and said that i am not ready to go to trial. And he said that i am looking for an attorney and he said that i am entitled to an attorney, the constitution guarantees my right to an attorney and the judge said, no, it does not. You have to try yourself. And the judge coaxed him through the trial. Very kindly. But he lost and he was a fairly complicated law, going to court is very complicated and selecting
Of africanamericans in this country. So by the time Robert Smalls died in 1950, he died brokenhearted, and financially, not near as well off as he once was. And so i have spent a lot of time talking about the history of this. As i used to say to my students when i taught, if it happened before it can happen again. And we see all the speculation about what the Supreme Court is going to do with the most important civil rights act, which i think was the Voting Rights act of 1965. And most experts think that thats about to come to a significant, and i call, a noble end. Oh grams of affirmative action, that simply means youre going to take positive steps. You cant be passive. Youve got to take positive steps to overcome the current effects of past discrimination, the history. Not going to happen by itself. If you bring that to a close, and people are speculating that that is about to happen, in fact i saw a few days ago one of the leading scholars, legal scholars in this country who was say
Third, one of the featured speakers at yesterdays daylong march on washington, celebrating 19630th anniversary of the march on washington. Welcome to washington journal on the sunday, august 25, 2013. We will play you a couple of more comments from yesterdays speech. The question this morning, does new Technology Create better jobs . We will show you the opinion piece that is prompting our question. Here are a couple of ways to participate in the discussion, as usual. By phone make sure you mute your television or radio when you call in. You can reach us on twitter or facebook. Or send journal cspan. Org us an email, the email address is or send us an email, the address is journal cspan. Org. The front page this morning of t,e washington pos the headline part of the reporting this morning area did president obama will be speaking on the actual Anniversary Day at the lincoln memorial. That is coming up on wednesday. Heres the front page of the New York Times and their front page photo f
This week, urban anthropologist Elizabeth Greenspan and her book, battle for ground zero inside the political struggle to rebuild the World Trade Center. In it, the Harvard University lecturer exposes the bitterness of which many different groups stake a claim to the real estate they considered sacred to so many. This program is about one hour. Host im kenneth feinberg, and i have a great distinct pleasure of chatting for a few minutes with elizabeth greensp greenspan, anthropologist, lecturer at Harvard University, and the author of a very important new book, battle for ground zero inside the political struggle to rebuild the World Trade Center. This battle is not about al qaeda and its not about the 9 11 terrorist attacks, at least not directly. What it is about is a social, anthropological study of the various political, social and other factors that went into the final decisions surrounding the site at the World Trade Center. Why, when, what the problems were. Elizabeth greenspan,