He has several books including the long reconstruction of popular politics in the south and after appomattox military occupation and the end of war. For those of you who were not with us last year, after the lens of the military to examine the time after the confederate surrender as an expansion of wartime. The last several years, dr. Inns has been very active broadening public understanding of the reconstruction era. Coedited a new essay collection the world the civil which seeks to redefine the United States. Are also look at sites that appropriate for memorializing reconstruction. , dr. Lowe,eaker earned ma and phd degrees from the university of washington seattle. She served as the Program Manager for the underground Railroad Freedom program, which places Minority College students from across the country and paid summer internships with parks and program offices, state Historic Preservation offices, local and state governments, and private organizations. Her academic fields of inte
Service. Good morning, reporter with National Public radio, it is such an honor to be here at the National Folk festival to be here with you and two distinguished authors, were going to spend next hour almost which is just not enough time, learning about two of the most unsung female heroines in the Civil Rights Movement and two oh and women whotw in many many was would not of been more different. One was establishment and one was grassroots one was upwardly mobile and incredibly welleducated and the other one was or came from a background filledom with such approbation describing it as the report seems almost to granted obviously persons are teasing together one was unlikely and made in life luminary and both of them change the course of history anyone o of them havent engiven their due and hopefully these two biographies that we are going to be discussing will change that to a dean of the Harvard Institute law professor and history professor at harvard university, an earlier h book i