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I am karen taylor, Program Director of the general society. The labor, literature and landmark collections are supported in part by public funds from the new City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the city council. For those of you who may be less familiar with the general society and how many of you here this evening with this be your first visit . Okay. A warm welcome and of course, welcome back to previous attendees. The general society was founded in 1785 by 22 artisans. Today our 234yearold organization continues to serve the peopleof the city of new york. We do this through our cultural and education programs. They include our lecture series which tonights lecture is part of, our general Society Library which will will be celebrating 200 ....
.. .. the former slave turned congressman. 53,000 black southerners have been eliminated by white democrats and targeted. 53,000. i always thought it was interesting. about 50,000. he is keeping numbers. according to adam s diary never once does he say that black republicans in the south are being shot. what he does say simply that people like sumner are stretching the constitution. the fourth generation fourth-generation declines. after the war. they were wandering around italy. they roll the carriage and crashed the leg. and the doctors want to take it off. henry gets there in time to say goodbye. and for a long time. it was unkept and overgrown. at one time the they actually lost her grave it fell over. the grave was about 10 feet away from her stone. so she dies him because of that. henry of course famously varies. there is a lot about this in the book there is a fair amount of press. there is a great photographer but not a gr ....
Weekend, today festival, about 100,000 people from the tucson area tennis festival. They did a wonderful job job presenting books and authors, and ideas. Its very accessible and easy to get to at the university. We appreciate all of their help and the fact that they let us come here and set up, we also appreciate hearing from you are callers. Thank you for watching. Everything you have seen today will be read broadcast beginning at 1 00 a. M. Eastern time tonight. Thank you for joining us. [inaudible] this is book tv on cspan to, television for serious readers. Starting shortly bruce riedel reports on the indian more. That at nine we discussed race and the obama presidency. Primetime continues at 10 00 p. M. With conservative blogger krystal wright. She was on washington journal to discuss her book. We wrap up book tv on prime time with the leaven with a look at professional and private relationships between mohammed ali and malcolm x. That happens next on cspan to book tv. First, here ....