Book tv viewers are also joining us. So welcome. [applause] cspan will be here throughout the day recording the events on the stage. This stage has a long history of being one of the festivals festivals most popular stage and we will delve into the role women played in the civil rights movement, americas relationship with the bald eagle, and a more complete accounting of the mexican revolution, and the strange history behind the search of the source of the nile river and many other topics. You learn a lot here at the history and biography stage and we hope you will visit us at the library of congress to do research about subjects you are interested in to expense the beauty of the Thomas Jefferson holding or attend one of our life at the library events. Most thursday nights we keep most exhibits open until 8 00 p. M. And host dynamic, free events for visitors. On september 15, and actress and podcast sisters will join us for a discussion. Determine 22nd, mosaic theater will present a pr
British protest singer billy bragg and will coffman. History has a habit of repeating itself every now and then and the songs that he was riding in the 1930s an 1940s and 50s can often have an amazing relevance for what is going on now. I think it is about time people started listening to Woody Guthrie again. And we hear the legendary folk singer pete seeger describe his first meeting with Woody Guthrie. He took over for 20 minutes and entranced everybody. I come from oklahoma, you know. It is a rich state. If you want lead, we have lead. If you want coal, we have coal in oklahoma. Woody guthrie. All that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Amy goodman commemorations are being held across the country this year to mark the hundredth anniversary of the birth of one of the countrys greatest songwriters, Woody Guthrie. Born on july 14, 1912, in okemah, oklahoma, guthrie wrote hundreds of folk songs, including this land is
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