Archives. Visit booktv. Org for a complete schedule. And we now kick off with Professor William darity and Kirsten Mullin with their thoughts on reparations for africanamericans. Good afternoon, im director of the hutchens center on fiscal and Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution. We gather here this afternoon virtually because of the covid plague to talk about reparations for africanamericans for the descendants of slaves. We planned this event before covid19 and, of course, william darity and Kirstin Mullen wrote the book long before covid19. Its worth noting that the coronavirus seems to be afflicting blacks much more than whites. Theres a piece in the journal of the American Medical Association which points out that more than half the covid19 cases in chicago and nearly 70 of the deaths involve black individuals although blacks make up only 30 of the population. Theres a story on the front page of the Washington Post today about contrasting the intensive care unit in afflue
There is a piece in the journal of the American General Association Appoints out the more than half of the covid19 cases in chicago, nearly 70 percent of the death, involve black individuals. Although blacks make up only 30 percent of the population. Theres a story in the front page of the Washington Post today about contrasting the intensive care unit in Northern Virginia which is largely empty with the overwhelmed the hospital and largely black county on the other side of washington dc. So although recreations is or has a long history. It is not directly related to covid19, it is same to me that covid19 puts the next hard on some of the issues in this book. Host a fun today is to put this into historical context. And also reference to jews in the state of israel, theyve done done by the. The u. S. Recreations to japaneseamericans who in turn during world war ii. For that we will start with a philosopher has been the director in berlin, she is the author of learning from the germans.
So we are playing with some technical difficulties. We are glad youre all here and i hope you all found a drink, and again, i appreciate your patience. Of course, welcome to the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. My name is amanda leiden. Curator, i am delighted to see you all here to see jean baker, author of Margaret Sanger a life of passion. She will be in conversation this evening with cristina page. We often think of margaret brooklynbeginnings in in the opening of that Family Planning and Birth Control clinic in brownsville. She started that clinic after being a nurse here on the Lower East Side. Here with the cohort of, goldman, who we will be discussing in two weeks. Todays talk is not just fitting, it is surprisingly timely, it is also fitting because it was a good chance Margaret Sanger new one or more of the immigrant women who lived down the street, a few doors down at 97 orchard street. Tonights guest jean baker is goucherr of history at college in baltimore. She is the auth
In 1912. In 1921, she founded the Birth Control league, a predecessor to planned parenthood. Next, jean baker reads from her biography. She then is interviewed by an author, christina page, and responds to audience questions at this event from 2011, recorded at the tournament museum in new york city. New yorknt museum in city. [chatter] amanda good evening, everybody. Thank you for your patience. In case you didnt know, we moved into this space last week, so we are playing with some technical difficulties. We are glad youre all here and i hope you all found a drink, and again, i appreciate your patience. Of course, welcome to the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. My name is amanda lydon. As curator, i am delighted to see you all here to see jean baker, author of Margaret Sanger a life of passion. She will be in conversation this evening with cristina page. While we often think of Margaret Sangers beginnings in brooklyn with the opening of that Family Planning and Birth Control clinic in
For their presentations. They will speak for 10 to 12 minutes at the most, i will enforce that with an iron hand about their Current Research on president ial commissions and then the three of us will talk in conversation about the role of president ial commissions and political history. And i will reserve the last half hour at least for questions and comments from you and for us to continue talking. As you can tell todays session is being filmed by cspan so do with that information as you will. All right. Frank is going to go first and introduce yourself. Yeah, my name is frank popper. I teach city planning rather than history, although increasingly i take a historical approach to city planning. I do that at rutgers and at princeton. The reason im here is that nearly half a century ago i wrote a small book for the 20th century fund, now the Century Foundation in new york city on president ial commissions and its one of the very few sources, i think, on them and a couple of months ago