University of North Carolina. Parents were my parents walther b gaither and fanny little gaither. Uh, great falls was my fathers home. My mother, fannie mae, was originally from anderson, South Carolina and my mom and dad met while they were students at friendship. College in rock hill, South Carolina. After they both graduated from friendship they moved permanently to great falls. Initially they were both schoolteachers. You could be a schoolteacher at that time with just a Junior College education. My dad did not stay in teaching because he discovered that what was listed on his contract as is per month payment for teaching was not the same as he this was thatand a time when the boards of education were all composed of white men. And so at the end of the year, my father approached the person who signed his voucher for, uh, payment and said, i noticed that there is a discrepancy here. Differenceve dollars between what he was supposed to be paid and what he was receiving. For questioni
Instagram booktv is our handle. Were kicking off today with an author discussion on Eleanor Roosevelt with emily wilson and National Book Award Finalist Patricia Bell scott. This is booktv on cspan2. Its live coverage of the southern festival of books. [inaudible conversations]. Since this session is being taped live, if you please use the microphone if we have time for questions at the end of the session, the microphone is over there, we will need the to end the session at 12 50. After that we will head to the book and author signing area where you will have an opportunity to meet the authors and have them sign your books. We cannot linger in this room. Thank you for your assistance. Professor of women studies at the university of georgia. She is a former contributor to miss magazine and cofounder to have National Women studys association. Her most recent book, the fire brand and the first lady, portrait of friendship, Paulie Murray, ellen nor roosevelt and struggle for social justice
[inaudible conversations] hello, welcome to this afternoon session. I am matt holloway, director of collections at the Tennessee State museum. Its a pleasure to welcome you to the 29th annual southern festival of books. As you know, this all sessions in the entire program is free of charge. If youre interested in helping out in the future, you can make a donation to the Tennessee Humanities Council either facebook or on site here or on their web page. After this session is over, our authors will be at the signing table, and we invite you if you haventha already acquired a coy of their book to do so and be there where they can sign the books. My remarks here are going to be very brief because weve got a lot to cover in one hour. I will, first, introduce Kathy Farnell who is, grew up in montgomery, alabama. Actually, cloverdale, near montgomery. And her wonderful book is duck and cover a nuclear family, and its about that area in the 1950s and 1960s which was an time. And 1960s which was
For four long years, Donald Trump led Republicans to all kinds of weird places they didn’t want to go or shouldn’t have wanted to go. Hostility to free trade, a ban on travelers from Muslim countries, praising foreign dictators, deriding an Indiana-born federal judge as “a Mexican” these are not traditional conservative actions or ideas. Yet, President Trump was, as the saying goes, “the titular head of the Republican Party,” and so the GOP was stuck with his baggage: the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Joe Biden ran for president promising to end the ugliness, and to work at uniting the country. He vowed repeatedly that, as president, he’d work as hard for those who voted against him as for those who supported him. In his inaugural address, he spoke evocatively about Americans not demonizing one another. Think of those who disagree with you politically as neighbors, he said, not enemies. As for his policies, unlike Trump, Biden embraced the mainstream thinking in his
His involvement with the civil rights movement began as a college sociology project.
But one meeting at Reverend Ralph Abernathy’s Montgomery church with Dr. Martin Luther King changed his life forever. Robert (Bob) Zellner, a white Alabamian whose grandfather and father were once members of the Ku Klux Klan, became a civil rights hero whose activism continues to this day.
Bob will be interviewed via Zoom in the Shelter Island Library’s Friday Night Dialogues series on Feb. 19 at 7 p.m.
His 2008 autobiography, “The Wrong Side of Murder Creek,” has been made into a movie produced by Spike Lee titled, “Son of the South,” which has just been released. Bob will be interviewed by fellow Alabamian and historian Diane McWhorter, whose book “Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Ala., the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution,” won the Pulitzer Prize.