Test test test test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 it isnt possible in Watkins Harper view to take a position that speaks to antiblack racism and doesnt speak to gender. Her often quoted line is, we are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity. This becomes the signature contribution that africanamerican women will make to this ongoing debate over Voting Rights that will continue i would say even until our own time. This view that it is not possible to parse out access to the polls, access to office holding, to jury service and more along manmade differences as she should put it like race and gender that she asks this, including stanton, including douglas, to really lift their sights to the interests of all humanity as she would put it and this is the position that black women will put on the table. They will not carry the day in the 1860s but they will press this position coming all the way through the 19th amendment and beyond. Ill leave it to ano
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The last archives shes also won numerous awards for her books including International Bestseller eaves truths, the history of the united states. Her next book is how the cybernetics preparation and better the future will be published in september 2020. Speaking to her today about the volatile times and how the coronavirus pandemic will go down in history as my colleague john haskell director of the john w flutie center of the library of congress. Its a great pleasure to welcome you to National Book festival presents. Hello jill, its good to have you with us despite the circumstances. Thanks, its nice to be here, or better to be there but its nice to be with you. Some pieces he written recently help us sort through this new and confusing time including the fascinating piece in the new yorker on what you call contagion tables. What are the earlier works in this genre a i would like to say what a pleasure it is to speak at the National Book festival and on behalf of the library of congres
Im jamie colby. Today im in picturesque roanoke, virginia. The name roanoke is believed to come from an algonquin word that means shell money, which is very appropriate to the story of this strange inheritance. My name is ryan givens. In 1992, my mother, melva givens, died at the age of 79. As executor of her estate, i found a lock box in her closet which contained a strange envelope. Ryan, this is the box . This is the box that she kept it in in her bedroom closet, and she kept it along with other things in this envelope right here. So, it says, this is a changed date, and what else does it not real . Not the real one. Changed date, not real, 1913. Melvas terse note reflects what shed been told about the coin inside that its a clever fake of one of the rarest and most valuable coins ever minted the 1913 liberty head 5cent piece. Coin expert and auctioneer Paul Montgomery wrote a book about the nickels. From 1883 to 1912, the liberty head nickel was the design that the u. S. Was using