The Television Companies and more. Including cox. This evening. Were happy to welcome dr. Rit cox, alongside these Television Companies support c span 2 is a public service. This evening, we are happy to welcome dr. Rita roberts, a professor of history, studies at the Nathaniel Stephenson chair history of biography at Scripps College in california. She teaches courses on the history of united states, 21st century africanAmerican History, black intellectuals and politics of race and modern civil rights movement. She holds a masters degree and phd in history from the university of california, burke. She will be discussing the book, this evening, its on the screen here. I cannot wait to call you my wife. All right. Africanamerican letters of love, family and the civil war era. This book illuminates the struggles of africanamericans who spent the civil war tractable their families to get through letters family members exchanged. Despite harsh laws against literacy and the practices of sepa