To start off with a callin question and how many times were you arrested during the civil rights hay day . Guest i didnt keep track. But i talked about the first one and the last one in the book. The first one is the day i met my wife. We met in jail. The last time was in columbia, South Carolina in 1961. I remember that one because that arrest led to a landmark breach of peace case called edwards against South Carolina. It began a Law School Case that most universities use the case book method use that case to teach from. I happen to be one of those arrested that day. I remember those two. In between a lot of times we got arrested and were never really charged. Just taken to the police station, taken off the streets and put back on with once the crowd disbursed. Host why were you and Emily Clyburn arrested and what year was it . Guest march of 1966 and it was six weeks after the students in greenboro, North Carolina were arrested and several weeks before we first met greensboro at Sha
Now i am very pleased to introduce tonight speaker. Edward baptists associate professor of history at cornel university. Originally from durham north carolina, he is also the coeditor with the late stephanie camp of new studies in the history of american slavery and the louis hyman of american capitalism a reader ebook from simon schuster. The l. A. Times calls the half has never been told an ambitious new economic and social history of america and Peniel Joseph director of the center for the study of race and democracy at Tufts University writes that it is a true marvel. Groundbreaking thoroughly researched expansive and provocative able for scholars of slavery and its aftermath to reconsider longheld conceptions. We are pleased to bring to Harvard Bookstore tonight, please join me in welcoming edward baptist. [applause] im just going to turn this on as a stopwatch so i dont go on too long. I promise its silenced. Thank you all for being here to meet the economists favor favorite auth
A fair deal it is wall streets fault. I think you could make an argument they are both right in some ways there is this and thats why ive wondered if some of this boils over into more of a problem than people go outside of the party structures. Guest after seeing what happened host you want to reform what you want to do. Guest but i also would like to see a situation where we deemphasize. I just dont think its nice to have some of them that was the big argument. Guest we ought to be doing things that work for all of us. One of the things that offends me to no end is when we take our constitution and say im going to enforce this particular this part and this group gets an exception but this one doesnt. Host i cant even tell you how that makes me feel. What but we ask that the constitution. Are you strict and frankly they sold the various court cases go this way. The letter of the law, the constitution is that the letter when you decide whether something is constitutional. Guest i think
Guest i have never kept count of the number of times i was arrested. I write in the book about two of them. The first one and the last one. I remember very well the first one. I met my wife. We met in jail and that became a real blessing for me. The last time was in Columbia South carolina in 1961. I remember that one so well because that arrests led to a landmark reach of peace case against South Carolina. It began the law school, a Law School Case that most universities that use the casebook method used that case. I happen to have been one of those arrested that day and so i remember those. In between a lot of times we got arrested and were never really charged. We were just taken to the police station, taken off the streets of lawrenceburg and then put back on once the crowd dispersed so i never really kept count on all of that. Host why were you and Emily Clyburn arrested in what year was back back . Guest it was march 15, 1960. It was six weeks after those students were arrested i
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