Authors discuss then < 1955 mur of emmett till, and the role of these events in the Civil Rights Movement. Cspan recorded the panel at the 2018 festival of books in nashville, tennessee. Greetings. My name is lee williams, jr. Im an associate professor of africanamerican and public history at Tennessee State university, and i will be the moderator for this panel. First id like to welcome you to nashville. If youre not a nashville resident, welcome, welcome. And welcome to the greatest library in america. This session will run precisely 50 minutes i am told. So we will give both our authors 20 minutes to speak, and well allocate ten minutes for question and answer. I was also admonished to remind you if youre really enjoying yourself this southern festival of books depends upon individual donations. So if you really enjoy what youve seen over the past couple of days id encourage you to donate as much as you can. Were in for a treat today. I asked these two gentlemen for bios a couple of
Test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 some democrats were perfectly willing to have integration in the north as long as they could preserve segregation in the south, going back to the time of slavery, never a dispute whether it could be prohibited in the north, we had border state problems in missouri and kansas, but the north was free to integrate as long as is the south could preserve segregation. That doesnt explain the housing issue. The other reason i think is that well i guess its not really an answer to your question why they did it, why its so hard to think about this problem, and that is we desegregated formally every area of American Life but when we desegregate busses the next day africanamericans can sit anywhere on the bus, desegregated lunch counters and the next day africanamericans could sit down at the lunch counters. We desegregated schools and the next day, but we desegregate neighborhoods what happens . How do we put our heads around what were
Good morning. So this meeting will now come to order. Today the subcommittee is holding a hearing entitled oversight of doe, during covid19 pandemic. Members will be participating in todays hearing finally in person or remotely via video conferences. And just as a reminder weve had some technical difficulties in making sure that our remote video was operating up to standard. As part of this hearing, the microphones of members participating remotely will be set on mute for the purpose of eliminating inadvertent background noise. Members participating remotely will need to unmute their microphones each time you wish to speak. For members and witnesses participating in person, i encourage you to wear your mask whenever you are not speaking. Dr. Monahan, our physician, stressed in attending physician covid19 guidelines that use of face coverings is meant to protect other people in case someone was unknowingly infected and does not have symptoms. But wearing our mask when we are not speakin
Residents and Business Owners cope with extensive property damage. In many cases that the probability that their lifes work is permanently destroyed. Lets go to fox newss jeff paul with the very latest. Hi, jeff. Reporter david, seattles Capitol Hill Area is occupied no more but there is going to be a lot of work to get things back to normal weeks after protests and demonstrations wearing helmets and body armor, Seattle Police swept through the area clearing out anything or anyone that might have remained remaine chop zone. At times they were using bikes to create makeshift walls as they pushed dozens of protesters who wouldnt leave. Police arrested three dozen people with charges bearing from failure to disperse, obstruction to assault and unlawful weapons possession. Fences were torn down and city crews used both hands and machinery to remove piles of leftover trash and other items. It will be a start to a long road to restoring the area. Business owners are left to repair any damage
Cope with extensive property damage. In many cases that the probability that their lifes work is permanently destroyed. Lets go to fox newss jeff paul with the very latest. Hi, jeff. Reporter david, seattles Capitol Hill Area is occupied no more but there is going to be a lot of work to get things back to normal weeks after protests and demonstrations wearing helmets and body armor, Seattle Police swept through the area clearing out anything or anyone that might have remained remaine chop zone. At times they were using bikes to create makeshift walls as they pushed dozens of protesters who wouldnt leave. Police arrested three dozen people with charges bearing from failure to disperse, obstruction to assault and unlawful weapons possession. Fences were torn down and city crews used both hands and machinery to remove piles of leftover trash and other items. It will be a start to a long road to restoring the area. Business owners are left to repair any damage and scrub off any graffiti th