Rachels work has covered a period of topics and she has reported extensively on the activity of the altright and their supporters. Rachel will be saying a few words about the Southern Poverty Law Center before we launch into the discussion for tonight. Please welcome rachel to the strand bookstore. [applause] hello, everybody. As he said my name is rachel and im an Investigative Reporter with the Southern Poverty Law Center and i want to thank all of you coming out here in sporting what we do at the center. I want to take a minute to tell you some of the specifics. We do three things. Seeking justice, fighting hate, teaching tolerance. The first and the third of those things weve got lawyers and legal staff that are much more talented than myself that do litigation on civil rights work all of the south and the rest of the country. Teaching tolerance staff introduces materials for educators so that they can promote diversity and inclusion in the classroom. What i do and what dave does i
[applause] [applause] [applause] ladies and gentlemen, would you please remain standing if you would while we introduce our distinguished guests to the podium in order of the seating. And let me ask you to please hold your applause until all have been introduced. First, mr. George beverly. Second, mr. Cliff barrows. Next mr. Franklin graham. Former president s of the United States, the honorable george h. W. Bush, the honorable bill clinton, the honorable jimmy carter and finally, special welcome to the man that we are here to honor today, the reverend billy graham. [cheers and applause] good afternoon, everyone and welcome today to this historic event. From the book of psalms, the scripture says this is the lord doing and it is marvelous in our eyes. This is the day the lord has made, we will rejoice and be glad in it. Give thanks unto the lord for he is good. Lord, his mercy is everlasting. Mr. President s, governor, mr. Mayor, platform guests, members of our board of directors, and
The intense opposition. Americas closest middle east ally, israel is condemning the accord, along with saudi arabia and most republicans in congress. Youll hear from them directly as to why they feel the deal is dangerous, and potentially a historic mistake. We begin this hour with the Landmark International deal to limit irans fuk lar program. Deal is welcomed to block irans pursuit of a nuclear weapon. And in the long run, it could reshape regulations between iran and the west. Or reaction from the white house and congress, and reaction from israel. And vienna on how negotiators bridged their differences. Starting with a closer look at the accord, calls for irans centrifuges, down to 3,000 and iran is supposed to reduce its stockpiles of uranium a crucial weapon component. And monitoring and examining sites, including military facilities. And in exchange, the world will lift sanctions on iran, but only after they have been verified that iran has taken steps to comply with the agreeme
Have you send them to hashtag Literary Lawn Party or hashtag ms book festival. I would like to introduce you to the sponsor of our session today. Our sponsor today is humanities council, Mister Stewart rockoff is the director. [applause] thank you very much. Im here to do two things. One is to say the session is sponsored with the National Endowment for the humanities as part of their race initiative. And then pamela junior, was previously the director of the Smith Robertson museum down the street and several months ago, the director of the mississippi civil rights museum. Which will be open to the public and to the people of mississippi, december 9th, who better . Pamela. Thank you so much. I am a big fan of these folks. What i decided to do is ask individual questions than a general question. Very good. I will introduce everybody, Charles W Eagles and i was told your students would be in here. The university of mississippi since 1983, his books include outside agitator, the Civil Rig
Forum on desegregation of little roczen tr rock high school, they shut down the schools rather than integrate. This is an hour and 20 minutes. I consider the theme of this particular panel Something Like triumph over adversity. Each of the panelists experienced segregated schools education. Some were directly involved in the crisis year and others were victims of the lost year when all little rock high schools were closed for an entire academic year. Some experienced all three. Despite being used remember, teenagers, like some of you in the audience, they were teenagers during the little rocks chaotic events. All of these gifts persevered and succeeded. They lived productive lives, were still living productive lives. They had a remarkable careers and they have given service with distinction. So they obviously all have long resumes. For that reason what i will do is shorten their resume so they have more time to speak. Because there are five speakers up here, we are going to have to mov