Of thinking about this proposal thats on the table. Lets thank beth. [applause] and thank all of you for your terrific questions which made for an enlightening discussion and as i said before that this book is on sale outside. Please help yourselves. [applause] [inaudible conversations] im very honored to have a chance to be with you today and to be able to moderate our Wonderful Program on the Death Penalty. I am Michael Gerhardt a constitutional law professor and also i have the honor of being a scholar at the National Constitution center. We have three terrific panels today who are going to be available after the program to be able to sign their books and talking about those books. Although the next panel will start promptly at 2 15. Just to get us started we have on my far left sub122 was judge robert m. Parker and dominant of law into his right ms. Carol steiker the in closest to me is grace and justice on death row widely regarded as one of the nations leading Capital Punishment
To implement a fair trial. This story was brought to the broadway stage, winning 11 tony awards, including best musical. Actors brandon g green and alan grant join us to talk about the scottsboro boys. I first became aware of where there was a similar story in my hometown where three black men were hung for allegedly raping a white woman and i was on the committee to study their story. That is when i first heard about the nine guys. And i was studying haywood patterson. 1418. He was riding the rails through the alabama and the south. He was seeing how his life was impacted. Tell me what you do about the scottsboro boys. I knew more about that rubin alabama and i knew more about the bombing and in birmingham. I read about scottsboro very late in life. Well later in life i should say. I was in grad school when the show was on broadway. Once speakeasy announced it, i have had track meets in won a tony award for best musical and it is curious that this could become a musical. Tell me how t
Of abraham lincoln, established the emancipation proclamation, and also the birthday of web 23ois, april 23 february in massachusetts. My wife was pregnant with our second child, and she went into labor february 22. So i said dear, if you have this child tonight, he will be born on toward washingtons birthday. If you hold out a couple of hours, you will have dubois baby. You can imagine what she would say to your husband 10 or 15 years down the road. She called me, but he was born on february 23, so you have a dubois baby. There is no person exhibit five the struggle struggle of freedom that exemplifies the struggle of freedom more than web dubois. He became famous for the many rights. Lets look at his life and his sayings. His early years, born in great barrington, massachusetts. He was born there, he is born to a mother and father. His father alfred left the family not long after he was born. Alexander was of haitian background, he spent some time in domingo and ran a story and great
On lectures in history, Georgetown University professor Maurice Jackson teaches a class on the philosophy of w. E. B. Dubois, an author and civil rights activist in the late 18th late 19th and early 20th centuries. He described his early life, role as an educator, and relationship with other activists of the time. This class is about an hour. Maurice jackson today we discuss the works of w. E. B dubois. We just entered africanamerican history month. Odson established this for three reasons. One was because of Frederick Douglass birthday, the birthday of abraham lincoln, who established the emancipation proclamation, and also the birthday of w. E. B. Dubois, born february 23 in massachusetts. My wife was pregnant with our second child, and she went into labor february 22. As we went to the hospital, i said, dear, if you have this child tonight, he will be born on George Washingtons birthday. If you hold out a couple of hours, we will have a dubois baby. You can imagine what you would sa
Second child, and she went into labor february 22. So i said dear, if you have this child tonight, he will be born on toward washingtons birthday. If you hold out a couple of hours, you will have dubois baby. You can imagine what she would say to your husband 10 or 15 years down the road. She called me, but he was born on february 23, so you have a dubois baby. There is no person exhibit five the struggle struggle of freedom that exemplifies the struggle of freedom more than web dubois. He became famous for the many rights. Lets look at his life and his sayings. His early years, born in great barrington, massachusetts. He was born there, he is born to a mother and father. His father alfred left the family not long after he was born. His grandfather alexander was of haitian background, he spent some time in domingo and ran a story and great barrington. His grandfather had some going back to hasty haiti, we just dont know. Some mixture, german somewhere along the line. When i asked him w