American christianity and southern culture at the duke divinity school, and an adjunct professor of american studies at unc chapel hill. You can tell tim is a very inclusive guy, hes got an appointment at duke and unc. We are going to talk best well tonight. He is the author of blood done sign my name which was nominated for the book award. He also serves on the executive board for the North Carolina naacp. Tim can tell you more about this book than i can. I just want to say, he does a marvelous job of putting amit hills murder and lynching into a context of American History. His earlier book is about a similar incident that happened 15 years later in oxford North Carolina about 25 miles from here and i learned just a few years ago about another similar incident that happened three blocks from here at the intersection of ninth street where during the war in 1944, a black soldier in uniform from philadelphia would not move to the back of the bus and when he got off the bus, the bus driv
Particular. One local officer and one more distant. That shared ending is the ultimate sacrifice whether it be sickness from Recovery Efforts from 9 11, traffic accidents or gunfire. Each of these officer is mar than just a name on a stone or a memorial. They were persons who meant the whole world to someone. Reporter ashley gwendon was a part of this familys whole world. She went to college down this florida. In the marines. Decided to go to the police department. Once we moved from massachusetts to maryland, she was no longer little. Reporter she responded to a domestic related call in 2016. The suspect opened fire, she was hit in a small open space in her kevlar under her arm. Coou bullet took her life not long after. She was 28 and it was her first day on the job. She looked so peaceful. She was lying there wounded. She was looking up in the sky. She was saying she was ready to be with her father. Reporter palm springs california officer lesli zerebne left behind her husband and ba
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Tonight is as the scholar in residence of the Kansas City Missouri Public Library system. Excitingn for a very treat. To keep it going in a flowing way, i am destined to read the introduction so we stay on point , but the person, my friend who is here tonight, who came from salt lake, utah, is the author till thek, emmett murder that shocked the world and propelled the Civil Rights Movement. Of the most definitive books on the subject. It took him 21 years from conception to completion to write the book youre i had the privilege to work on emmett tills case the book. I had the privilege to work on witht tills case, to work his mother to have the case reinvestigated and to have the the unsolved pass Civil Rights Congress is working on it right now. We expect it to pass. He is an editor at signature working onah and is a masters degree in publishing. He is the editor of several books on mormon history. He published his book on emmett basis ofit will be the a miniseries produced by jayz,
Who is here tonight who came from salt lake, utah, his name is devery anderson. He is the author of the book, emmett till the murder that shock the world and propelled the Civil Rights Movement. It is one of the most definitive books on the subject. It took him 21 years from conception to completion to write this book. And i had the privilege to work on this case, emmett tills case, starting in 2002 with emmett tills mother, to work toward the reopening of the case to be reinvestigated and to have the United States congress to pass the emmett till unsolved civil rights crime act. That is now in the works being we authorized again. Congress is working on it right now. We expect in the next several weeks for that to pass. [applause] anderson is an editor at signature books in salt lake, utah, and is currently working on a masters degree in publishing at the George Washington university. He is the editor and coeditor of several books on mormon history. And in 2015, the University Press of