Seal the holiday weekend. For morings in visit booktv. Org or check your program guide. [applause] yes. Hi. Im the event coordinator. I am glad to welcome back Keeanga Yamahtta taylor, assistant professor from princeton, and she is writes and speaks on black politicssocial movements and racial equality in the United States. She is here for her third back, race for profits, how banks and Real Estate Industries undermine black Home Ownership. She will be in discussion with professor together the roberts, who is a very acclaimed scholar, public bell electric to all and social justice advocate. So i would like to he introduce keeangayamahtta taylor. Hello, everyone. Thanks for coming. My fourth talk this week. Very glad to be here in philly, which ended up dish began this project in 200820082009 and mostly about chicago do i need this . Okay. I mostly about chicago and detroit, and then when i moved to philadelphia issue found out there was a story here. So, philly has been an important pa
And she is he writes and speaks of black politics, social movements and racial inequality in the United States. Shes here for her third book, race for profit how banks and the Real Estate Industry undermined black homeownership. Sorry. She will be in discussion with professor Dorothy E Roberts from the university of pennsylvania was a socioeconomic and social justice advocate. I would like to introduce keanngayamahtta taylor. [applause] hello everyone. Thanks for coming. My talk fourth talked of sweet. Very glad to be here in philly. I begin this project began this project in 20082009 and was most about chicago. Do i need this . Mostly about chicago. And detroit. And when i move to philadelphia, i found out there was a story here. So philly has been an important part of me writing this book so im very glad to be able to actually be here and talk to you. Its a difficult book to read from. Kind of tents. But readable. So what im going to do is give a kind of narrative arc that really cov
Opportunities and resources. The Kerner Commission made the case we need to equalize opportunities, equalize resources. That is what we should have done in 1968 and we should seek to do today. Had aa historian, if you chance to sit down with dr. King, what would you ask . Thatld ask him whether he still felt his dream had turned into a nightmare by the time he died. King gave a prominent interview with a reporter where he stated my dream from 1963 has turned into a nightmare. Of course, the evening before his assassination he gave the mountaintop speech. He said i may not get there with you, but i have seen the mountaintop. I believe we are going to get to the mountaintop. It was a message of hope, just as the message in 1963 was i have a dream that i think will be actualized. In 1967 he was questioning that. Particularly as he was organizing the campaign and receiving resistance from a president that stated he was waging a war on poverty. I would ask what he believed. Is racism a nigh
Divisive times in American History. A time that marks the emergence of a postcivil rights racial order that defines american psyd today. Formally known as the National Advisory committee on civil disorders, president johnson establish the committee in july following violent racial confrontations in newark and detroit which left 69 people africanamericans, and city blocks burned to the ground. That summer there were more than 150 riots around the United States. Ignited byriots were incidents of Police Brutality. Of growingtime racial and Political Polarization and the retreats from the progressive reform agenda ushered in by the Civil Rights Movement and Great Society legislation or the factors were the war in vietnam, the republican sweep in the 1960 Midterm Elections, a law and a liberalismm, and insulated from the realities of black life and dismissive of lack protests after 1965 from the evolution of Martin Luther kings leadership to black power. What senator harris described as ame
Live coverage on cspan 3. The next seven months, the commissioners and staff they a probingpursued examination of conditions that fueled the riot, including visits to 20 three cities, interviews with residents and activists, and confrontation with realities invisible to most politicians and policymakers. The Kerner Commission produced a 704 page report that sold 2 million copies. We have a group or today prepared to offer insight into the report, the historical context, and significance. I will introduce them in the order in which they will present. Julian zelizer. And publicf history affairs at Princeton University cnn. News commentary on he is the author of numerous books on american political history. His recent book is a monumental study of lbjs legislative season which produced civil rights legislation, the war on poverty, and transformative initiatives. He published a new edition of the Kerner Commission report which includes an excellent introduction. Julian zelizer will conside