Clerk okay, mr. President , you do have a quorum. President yee okay. Thank you, please place your right hand over your heart. Will you please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president yee welcome, supervisor safai. Lets see. Where are we . On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv who record all of the meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes, mr. President. President yee go ahead. Clerk yes. The record will reflect that during covid19, members of the board of supervisors participate in the same extent as if they were in the chambers. The board of supervisors believe that all communities with or without the internet have the following available options to participate in this meeting. We will receive your correspondence and make it part of the legislative file. Address the mail to the San Francisco board of supervisors, city hall, room 244, Sa
Clerk okay, mr. President , you do have a quorum. President yee okay. Thank you, please place your right hand over your heart. Will you please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president yee welcome, supervisor safai. Lets see. Where are we . On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv who record all of the meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes, mr. President. President yee go ahead. Clerk yes. The record will reflect that during covid19, members of the board of supervisors participate in the same extent as if they were in the chambers. The board of supervisors believe that all communities with or without the internet have the following available options to participate in this meeting. We will receive your correspondence and make it part of the legislative file. Address the mail to the San Francisco board of supervisors, city hall, room 244, Sa
All persons having business before the honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States, are admonished to draw near and give their attention. Landmark cases, cspans special history series, produced in partnership with the National Constitution center, exploring the human stories and constitutional dramas behind 12 historic Supreme Court decisions. Mr. Chief justice and may it please the court quite often, in many of our most famous decisions, are ones that the court took that were quite unpopular. Count the vote, count the vote. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of different people. Who help stick together because they believe in a rule of law. Good evening, and welcome to cspans landmark cases, tonight were going to learn about a case that you may not have heard about. Its the civil rights cases of 1883, consolidation of five cases brought to the Supreme Court to help define the 14th amendment. Tonight were
Announcements to make. My name is danny kane and the owner of the bookstore where im sitting right now. Im the director of the paper plane area festival. We appreciate you being here with us today. It would be perhaps more fun if we were all together on a beautiful sunny day but we appreciate this regardless and plan to be back and stronger than ever in 2021. We had a great series of Online Events they are all archived and available for replay. A couple other things about how this is going to work. Marie is going to give a short author talk and show photos about her book then we will open it up to questions. You can ask questions by clicking that ask a question button at the bottom of your screen or typing into the chat window at the right hand side of your screen. We appreciate you asking questions to keep the discussion moving and we want this to be participatory event as much as we can another thing to note at the bottom of the screen is says by american harvest will take you throug
Critical praise from the washington post, professor in history at Boston College explains the trajectory of conservatism in her book. The most important lyrical part. They underemphasized racism, sexism and inequality in other parts of the country during the civil war, she marshaled a wealth of evidence to support the books provocative title. Conservative cry foul but liberal readers will be persuaded by jeremiah. Im really excited to deacon but first, i want to invite those of you listening to share your questions to heather and do that by typing into the q a box i think you will see at the bottom of your screen, will take as many as we can in the second part will last about an hour. Its my great pleasure to introduce heather, professor of history at Boston College, author of six books about american politics and writer of the popular newsletter, letters from americans. Come, heather. Im trying to unmute myself. I want to think Stroke Society for doing this but also to say to people w