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
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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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Rose additional funding provided by these funders. And by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose we are at the Supreme Court of the United States in washington, the nine justices that occupy its chambers carry a heavy responsibility. They have the final say on the law of the land. The principles and idea that guide their decisions are the subject of heated debate. Justice Antonin Scalia is the longest serving justice currently on the court, he is the leading voice for a conservative judicial philosophy known as textualism, some talk about it as originalism. It asserts that laws must be interpreted as they were understood by the men who wrote them. In 2006, Justice Elena kagan, then the dean of hear extraordinary law school, scalias alma mater says he is the justice who has had the most important impact over the years on how we think and talk about law. He originally coauthored a new book