At. In the book you talk about your personal journey and you are very candid about your life and cover new insights as a historian from the life and legacy of dr. Martin luther king, jr. What prompted you . Guest it is the 50th anniversary and it is 50 years of mine life of the king legacy and to my coming of age. Part of it was to do the to tasks. That my life had been connected to the keying legacy king legacy and how king impacted me and i was involved with this amazing journey of editing kings papers. Host it is an excellent reid and we are of the same generation and i was also coming of age. It was bittersweet because i knew dr. King he was my mentor. But bitter because the way he was taken from us because of racial hatred. We can start at the beginning the kids youre on the mall with dr. King and at the end you were there again with 50 years later with the monument you help to design. Guest and coming back for important occasions. I only lived in washington a short time but the m
A they have so a few men to start with. Then they have to use units. They are constantly deploying troops to prevent slaves from running away to the enemy and joining the union army. They also have to divert troops to contain the deserters. They dont have any extra troops, so the pressure on them on numbers by the end by late 1864, by 1863 the secretary of war said there are no more white men to be had. And at that point, the conversation starts seriously about whether they have to use black soldiers. Its bizarre but i think the perfect arc of justice from slavery as an element of strength to, we have to consider emancipating the slaves to force them to enlist in the confederacy. So that is another story i tell in the book. They dont contemplate emancipation out of the goodness of their heart. A lot of people think that the confederacy chose independence over slavery because by the end, some people were willing to enlist slaves in the army but the Confederate Congress and the Virginia
Is a memoir and a history book. In the book you talk about your personal journey and you are very candid about your life, and you also cover new insights as a historian to the life and legacy of dr. Martin luther king, jr. What prompted you to write the book this way . Guest well, i wanted to write something for the anniversary and this is 50 years of my life and kings legacy and my life coincides with my coming of age, so part of it was to do those two tasks. I felt that my life had been connected to the king legacy, and i felt there was something about my life that needed to be told to understand how king impacted me and how i got involved in this amazing journey of editing team newspapers. Host its an excellent reading and you and buy your of the same generation, and why too was coming of age in the 60s. The book i might say was bittersweet to me because i knew dr. King, i knew him the last two years of his life and i am bitter because of the way that he was taken from us because of
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