Can you tell us they realistically are like and how long a site is active or on a. Slide 12 also has as well. While you are looking for that, my mother grew up there and is from scranton. Back then they used a turnaround and pile up the refuse from coal. So if you look at our drill patterns, my mother refers to it as this dumb. Theres no question that it was disruptive or there is no question that there were a lot of trucks. And theres also no question that one of the largest environmental problems we have is the amount of diesel that is used in this entire process and that is another talk entirely. But its also very important to bear in mind that you cannot turn around and look at a snapshot from anyone moment of time and say that this is wyoming county. I live in northeastern pennsylvania and i can walk 27 miles from the back of my house to the back of the house of Gifford Pinchot and not cross a major road. Another thing i wont cross is a tree that would be older than my father. Tha
Looks at the political battles involved in passing the Civil Rights Act, 50 years ago this summer and regarded as one of the most significant legislative achievements of the moment. Todd burnham spent years at the white house as Diplomatic Correspondent Dan Los Angeles bureau chief, now National Editor of vanity fair. And david ship hells waking from the dream tracks the history of the Movement Since the death of dr. King. David chappell is professor of modern American History, taught in arkansas, russia and upstate new york. Washington d. C. And policy work, in addition to waking from the dream he has written inside is of the Civil Rights Movement and prophetic religion in the death of jim crow. He has written numerous articles and essays so our format today i will start by asking a few questions for panelists to discuss and then we will switch to audience questions. Please go to the microphone in the middle. It 3 15 we will move to the activity building for the book signing. All the
Now from the Annapolis Book festival, a discussion about the Civil Rights Movement with dave chapelle, and Juan Williams. Thank you all for coming to our panel and the Civil Rights Movement. Im the chair of the Humanities Department here in at the school. I would like to ask you all sign out of any cell phones are and Electronic Devices of the panel isnt disrupted. I would like to start by acknowledging yesterday was the 46th anniversary of the estimation of Martin Luther king. If we could all just take a brief moment of silence in his honor. Thank you. And they have an interesting array of oaks represented here. A kind of chronology of the silver rights movement. So i will introduce them in the order of the periods that they cover. An idea whose time has come looks at the political battles involved in passing the Civil Rights Act, 50 years ago this summer and regarded as one of the most significant legislative achievements of the moment. Todd burnham spent years at the white house as
Weekends television schedule, visit us online at booktv. Org. Up next, author and columnist amity shlaes, the chair of the Calvin Coolidge foundation, talks about the Great Depression, taxes and president ial legacies. The former wall street Journal Editorial Board member is the author of five nonfiction books including the New York Times bestseller, the forgotten man, which was released as a graphic edition in 2014. Host amity shlaes, whos the forgotten man . Be. Guest the forgotten man, who was he . President roosevelt spoke to have forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid, so that would be the homeless man. But in the era that president roosevelt spoke about this inoto the 1930s, they were aware of be another forgotten man. Many americans then had learned about this other forgotten man in school, and that forgotten man was the man who pays for th government project, the third party. Theres even a littlal yes pa be about the forgotten man, that other forgotten man. Ve they
Our coverage from the 2014 roosevelt reading festival continues with amitiy shlase on the Great Depression. Good afternoon, everyone. My name is bob clark and im the deputy directyear her tee franklin d. Roosevelt president ial lie area and museum, and its my honor to welcome you to the 11th annual roosevelt reading festival. Before i introduce our distinguished speaker, let in go over a couple of housekeeping things. Would everyone please take out your Electronic Devices and turn them off so we dont have any interruptions of our presentation today. The next is if you havent had an opportunity yet to see our new permanent exhibit we signaled last year, come find one of us on the Library Staff and well be happy to give you an fdr button and that will get you into the Museum Galleries for free today. And then finally, just a kick quick thanks to our friends frid colleagues from cspan who are recording this session. Just a little talk about how the session will go. The author is going to