York. A look at the Civil Rights Movement in new york. Greetings. With the book of Historical Society as of today the brooklyn Historical Society is the new center for brooklyn history i am marsha eli i wanted to welcome you all and say that those of you that have enjoyed the Public Program at this one. We will keep presenting about the issues of our times. In the history that needs to be told more freely. Visit our programs page at the center for brooklyn history website. It is such a pleasure to be partnering with the brooklyn book festival on this. A long history of yankee racism. I have unfortunate news that one of our speakers have a sudden family emergency this morning. He will not be with us today. It is my pleasure to introduce to scholars who have done an enormous amount of work to correct a misguided narrative about racism in the north i urge you to buy their book by clicking on the buy bulk button and the books well also continue to be for sale on the festival website afterw
And on behalf of the Miller Center, its a pleasure to welcome you to the special program on shining a light on the era of integration. Part of uvas 2023 Martin Luther King Community celebration cosponsored by uva lifetime learning in the office of engagement. I want to thank Alfred Reeves and Christina Lopez guitar de chao and the Miller Center team for making this event possible. For those joining us today, i do want to i want to encourage you to join our conversation by sending in your questions for our speakers via the chat function during this virtual event. The reverend dr. Martin luther jr and many civil rights activists working for social change in a more just society where motivated by a vision of beloved community, working toward a future of racial reconciliation and healing, dr. King believed and often stated that the arc of the universe bends toward justice over time. Dr. Kings vision of a more just and Equitable Society led him to oppose not only racism, but also war and po
Present. Host and what is your answer to the question on the seminar you teach is america postracial and first of all what is happening, postracial . What does that mean . Guest the course interrogates this idea that began to circulate after the election of barack obama to the presidency that a black man was in the white house that perhaps United States had over toms long history of racism and segregation and White Supremacy and so there was a lot of attention to that question after he was first elected. Tragically and very sadly in our recent time we have seen very unfortunate and dramatic illustrations that thats absolutely not the case. The courts really explored the whole range of issues from affirmative action in Higher Education to police violence, police brutality, boater laws to take up this question of what is the extent of Racial Disparities in American Life . Host Martha Biondi some people might be watching this per gram of tissue supervisor of africanamerican studies. Guest
With the possible exception of scooter libby. Im going to ask you to wrap up with something that dick cheney had talked about before and that was his state and religion if you can tell us about that. The one subject he doesnt like to pursue any depth with religion and we covered more than anywhere else in the heat talked to me about the sunday school experience, his migrations over the years and his beliefs about his faith. To sit there stranded by all these books having survived five heart attacks and a transplant to hear him say to me im a christian and i believe in a life hereafter is powerful. So if you love or hate it cheney or you are a millennial gesturing to learn about him in 9 11 and iraq you will learn how his mind and heart work. Its a really important piece of history and im glad you had a chance to do it. That was after words in which authors of the latest nonfiction books are interviewed. Watch past programs online at the booktv. Org. Br on the campus of the university o
Professor. They spoke at the 2014 organization of american historians annual meeting in atlanta. This is about 90 minutes. S an hour and a half. Thank you all for being here. My name is jim campbell. I teach history at Stanford University. It is my privilege and my great pleasure to introduce todays panelists after which im going to shut up. A couple of ground rules. The reason that there are these blinding lights, this event is being recorded by c span, so one consequence of that is they have asked that we use the microphone for questions from the floor. Im afraid theres only one, so my hope would be that i hope we dont get one of these endless cues, but if you do have a question and are able, please come forward and speak into the microphone with your questions. If you are not able, well try to get the microphone to you. The speaker will speak, i hope, i expect quite briefly, and we will then throw this open into a conversation. It is as all of you know if youve been watching your c