Comcast supports cspan is a Public Service along with these other Television Providers giving you a frontrow seat to democracy. Good morning. Im a reporter with National Public radio. Such an honor to be the National Book festival and we do these distinguished authors. Within the next hour almost which is just notot enough time learning about two of the most unsung female heroines at the Civil Rights Movement, two women who in many, many ways could that have been more different. One was establishment. One was grassroots. One was upwardly mobile, kobe well educated and the other one came from a background filled with such deprivation that describe it that seems almost a greater one was an obvious leader one was an unlikely and late in life luminary. Both of them change the course of history and neither one of them has been given their due. Hopefully these biographies thao were going to be discussing will help change that tomiko brownnagin is a dean at the harvard, at harvard university.
Could not have been more different. One horse establishment and one was grassroots. One was evidently mobile and the other one from a background described as almost two grand. One wasnt obvious routine and another unlikely and later in lifefe. It changed the course of history and neither one were given to do. Hopefully the biographieshi discussed will help change that, a dean of the grad institute, law professor and history professor at harvard university. Her earlier book is to send, offense and the Civil Rights Movement. The civil rights clean speaker. A scholar conclude meant tuckman, the kennedy daughter and the plot to kill abraham lincoln. They will talk about a biography. I will assume many of you are like me, maybe you have heard a little bit or nothing. I hope you will introduce us to the subjects of these books. Yours i think is unjustly less known, tell us about who she was and why you chose her. Happy to. Thank you to all of you for being here, i am delighted to share, a le